\ ga SECTION A — PAGE 2 not “51TH the following anticle, : Fredric =F. Anderson, Jr., son of Mr. and “Mrs. -Fredric W. ‘Anderson, Shaver- -#town;~ tells of his experiences in feFermosa. ‘O3fFred is spending a year there Zaumder; a scholarship provided by Dr. «Bruce Hagan of Primghar, Iowa, by special permission of the Chinese National Government. His job is to _ live, work and study with the Uni- ay Students. At present en- Be at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, Fred plans to enter the mission field upon graduation from Theological Seminary. He sailed June 29th from San Francisco aboard the Chinese freighter, S.S. Haij_Chaio. Hé. refers often to Taiwan which is the Chinese name for Formosa. Heis working with Pastor Don Baron, Lutheran missionary sta- tioned at Taipei whom he mentions in his letters as Don. Fred had the opportunity of working previously with Pastor Baron when the latter had a parish in New Jersey. One of his thany tasks is writing a newsletter to many churches and organizations back in the U.S.A. This is his first official newsletter, Dear Friends, It is hard for me to believe that I have now been in Taiwan for al- most ‘two months, yet my calendar tells me that September has passed and October is here. It seems that it. was such a short time ago that I stood on the deck of the Hai Chiao, a Chinese freighter, watching the Golden Gate Bridge fade into the mist of early evening. That was the first day of July and it was to be 36 more days before IT would set foot on land again. During our voyage the sailing was generally quite calm until we neared Japan, where we received warning of a typhoon approaching the area. This was the first of three typhoons that caused delays in our voyage between Japan and Taiwan. While it passed the area we were forced to shelter for three days in Tokyo Bay. During the second we spent four days anchored in the bay of a small Japanese island called Amami O. Shima. However, be- cause water and food was growing dangerously short we made an at- tempt to outrun the third typhoon and reached Keelung, Taiwan's northern seaport, a half day ahead of it. : At the pier I was met by Don Baron, an old friend and the insti- gator of his program that brought I was over ten days late in my ar- rival we had to leave the same day for the work camp at the Taichung Lutheran Theological Seminary. Taichung is about a third of the way down the western coast of Taiwan and the trip gave me a good chance to observe the new way of life that I was already becoming a part of. At the work camp there were about twenty students who had given two weeks of their vacation to the work of building a basketball- volleyball court for the seminary. It was a rich two weeks of joint wor- me to Taiwan for the year. Because THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1962 ship, Christian fellowship, and hard work, At the end of the camp one of the students, who was not a Christian, testified that through this experience he had come to see how shallow and empty his life was with- out Christ. And T might add, what a rich experience it was for me to see Christ so actively at work in the lives of these people, most of whom had only known Him for a matter of a few years or even months. At the end of the work camp two Chinese students, Don Baron, and myself left on a trip that took us around the ‘island. We traveled south from Taichung to Chiayi, where we visited a new Lutheran Hospital and clinic that had just been finished and was to open with- in the month to the overwhelming need in the area. From ©Chiayi we headed further inland to Alishan, a beautiful moun- tain area, whose peaks actually rise above the clouds. As we again con- tinued south we made several stops at the homes of students, one of which was a farm home in a typical Taiwan farming community. From here we traveled to Tainan, where one of our Lutheran Student Cen- ters is located. This center has a story that makes witness to what can be done through the effort of concerned Christians working to- gether, even though they may be thousands of miles apart. A small congregation in Montana wrote to a missionary, who had originally been a member of their congregation, asking what they might do to help the work in Tai- wan. His answer was that there was a great meed for a student cen- ter to facilitate student work in Tainan. Because the cost of build- ing is so much cheaper here in Tai- wan, a four room center, he said, would cost only $2000. It was not long before he had the money and work was ‘begun. I could not help but wonder how much might be ac- complished here if there were more such concerned congregations and individuals willing to give a helping hand * to tholy ‘brother church in Taiwan. It was at Kaushiung, Taiwan's modern, southern seaport, that we changed our course from south to east. However, this was only after a visit ‘to another active arm of the church in Taiwan, the Lutheran Bible Institute. We then left by bus and traveled through the beautiful southeran mountains of Taiwan to the east coast and followed the nar- row coast line morth to Taitung, where we briefly visited another Chinese friend's home and were again on our way northward to Taipei. One of the most spectacular sights of our trip was the Cliff Road, by which we traveled for part of our trip north. It is a one lane road that was blasted out of the side of the sheer mountains that rise directly from the Pacific Ocean for a dis- tance of approximately a hundred miles. When we arrived back in Taipei we were tired, but greatly enriched younger by our two weeks of travel. We had visited most of the varied areas of Taiwan and their people and seen a good representation of our church's work here. As I recount the trip there are many memories. I think of the beautiful new Luther- an hospital in Chiayi, and give thanks that the hand of God can go reach out in mercy, but at the same time I remember that this hospital can only partially meet the great physical and spiritual need of the area. I think of impressive Alishan, rich in natural beauty, but at the same time I remember the one small, narrow gauge track train that connects its poor villages, only once every two days with the out- side world, upon which they de- pend for every facet of life, includ- ing most medical care. Yet, of even greater importance, there is no Christian Church or even active mission work going on in this area. I rejoice at my memory of the Tain- an Lutheran Student Center that DALLAS, PENN SYLVANIA +++ Frederic Anderson Writes From Lutheran Mission On Formosa+ +: tian love and sharing can do, and for the Lutheran Bible Institute in Kaushiung, that for the past ten years has been steadily supplying trained = layworkers to assist the church in its tremendous task. This indeed demands a prayer of thanks to the God, who is daily reaching out to bring new souls into His love and grace. How I wish that space would allow me to say more, for it seems that in this letter I have shared only a minute token of the experience that has been mine over these past three months. In my next letter I hope to tell of the work going on here at the Lutheran Student Cen- ter in Taipei. I ask that you pray with us here in Taiwan, that many may hear an accept the Word of Life and that God may continue to strengthen, guide, and supply . the work and laborers of His fields, that the har- vest may be great. Yours in Christ our Savior, stands as a witness of what Chris- Fred Anderson’ HE DALLAS POST Established 1889 £=“More ‘Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its = Ed 73rd Year” A nowpartisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. ye ear; $2.50 six months, a ix months. ~o Foonths or less. Subcription rates: $4.00 a No subscriptions accepted for less than Out-of-State subscriptions; $4.50 a. year; $3.00 six Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. 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MARKS Accounting—DORIS MALLIN Circulation—MRS. VELMA DAVIS Photographs—JAMES KOZEMCHAK Safety MISSES DALLAS’ BUT LIKES SCHOOL Dear Editors: Just a few lines to thank you for the lovely, though somewhat exag- gerated article you wrote about me in the Dallas Post. I was so surprised when I read it, and wondered who had written it. My son and ‘daughter-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Robert: M. Moore, and children Paftie and Keith visited me here over’ last weekend, and she told me you and she had talked over the phone. & Thank you very much. : I.did not.receive my Post last aveek, and sure did miss it. T wond- dr i it would be possible to send ast week’s along with this week's. Valve . . . Sincerely, Irene Moore Carson Valley School Flourtown Ed. note: Bet you're having a ball, teaching the children to cook. One thing is for sure, nobody could give them better instruction. There's a lot more to cooking than just boning up on it in a cooking-book. THANKS FROM THE POETS Dear Mr. Risley, We all are glad that you put our poems in the Post. It was very nice to find them there, when we got the paper. My mother thought it was very kind of you to put them all in. Mrs. Colwell put th 2ef the Wilkes-Barre Record, but | on to he) well put them up 7 ost is my paper. ; Z This place is huge, wonderful, and We all thank Fou very much. derntiful. Wish you could see it.. Sincerely, * 1 like my, work very much, but Kathy Tillotson I eally miss Dallas and all my friends. | Ath Grade “A NIGHT IN THE VILLAGE” » = 4 IN “*%We cats don’t care. “srse | 2 All you beatnicks and straight lace folks too, We will tell you what we want you to do. Leave your pads and fine homes for a while so-And spend an evening Bohemian Siyle.: Grow a goatee, wear a beret, Leotards and dark glasses will be O.K. If you desire to come as a square, A night in the village we know you'll dig. Hi “A popular combo will play for our jig. A buffet lunch will be served quite late 4 ; a Turn right or about face. AR, Sporworéd by the Junior em A EI Se aiis VS lt So, don’t forget Friday, the November 23, date. For a night in the village you need not go far. Out in the drive-way, jump in the car. 25 Down the highway take a spin, to the Continental Inn. “ “Tt may be dark but, man that’s the place. _ Don’t hesitate to take your mate. “The 23rd of November is the date. This night is sure to be a gas. Woman's Club of i Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post rr HAPPENED J{} YEARS Aco: Dedication of Kingston Township's new high school building drew 1,000 spectators. Herbert Hill was chairman. Speakers were Mitchell Jenkins, W. M. McIntyre, Fred Eck, William H. Bristol, Hon. Benjamin Jones, Mrs. Ollie Guyette, Mrs. Catherine Mundy. Rev. G. Elston Ruff gave the invocation, Rev. J. J. O'Leary the benediction. John Yaple shot a silver-crested pheasant. James J. Tunney, former heavy- weight champ, spoke at a Democrat- ic rally. A fourteen year old Boy Scout from Idetown was killed in a hunt- ing accident, Paul Kolesnikoff dy- ing from a bullet wound in his lung. Accidental discharge of gun in the hands of his hunting companion, Philip Crispell, was the cause. A man who helped to run the first batch of leather through the Tan- nery at Noxen, died at 72. John ‘Ruff helped found Noxen, arriving by, horse and wagon from Coopers- town, over mountain trails, through virgin pine woods. The varied diet of a watersnake, tadpoles, lizard, brook trout, got front page billing. According to present day stand- ards, the school buses featured on the page of views of the new Kings- ton Township High School were odd looking, would be genuine antiques today, and highly prized in any parade. Congressman Murray Turpin sent his regards to the school board headed by J. B. Schooley. Adver- tisers got on the band wagon. F. D. R. Roosevelt dominated the election advertising. John Nance Garner’s posters brought out that mossy old qualification for glory, born in a log cabin. Leg of lamb was 19 cents a pound, chuck roast 11, pork loin, 10 cents. Butter was two pounds for 43, cof- fee, 17 cents a pound. rr HAPPENED 2) YEARS Aco Chief Ira Stevenson was retired; Fred Swanson, assistant, appointed to take his place as Police Chief at Harveys Lake. A highly treasured brass key joined other keys in the collection made at the Hallowe’en parade, in aid of the scrap drive for metal. The key once opened room 25 in a hotel at Fairbanks, Alaska, at the height of the Gold Rush, when Mrs. Charles Wheaton Lee’s father, John Robbins, was a prospector. Louis Cottle, on his way to teach a first-aid class at Primitive Meth- odist Church in Fernbrook, fell from a culvert and broke his pelvis. Dr. Sherman Schooley attended him. Antonia Kozemchak joined the WAACS, Byron Atkinson, the Navy. Philip Sorber, 14, Noxen, was admitted to Nanticoke Hospital with gunshot wounds of face, hands and legs. He was injured while hunt- ing near Orangeville. Elmer Phillips, 17, had his scalp lacerated by pellets from a hunter’s shotgun, Service men heard from: E. H. Evans, Parris Island; Michael Wallo, Texas; George H. Ray, Utah; Oliver Phebey, Florida; Donald D. Metzger, Camp Atterbury; Joseph Elias, Col- orado; Durwood Splitt, Arthur Kem- merer, Bernard Blazes, Frank H. Rhoads, Charles Husband, Warren Johnson, Harry Spencer, Alan Kist- ler, Al Lamoreaux, Harry Rogers, Robert Girvan, William Girvan, Wil- liam Fletcher, Howard Carey, and Glenn’ Ehret. Married: Dorothy Jane Wendell to Eugene Laing Kocher. Jean Stick- ter to Robert Tryon. Harold Flack led the Republican ticket with a three to one majority for the new congressman, Because of a government order that no Hallowe’en marcher over fourteen should wear a mask (be- cause of danger of sabotage in some areas of the country) fewer adults {than usual marched in the Hal- lowe’en parade. rr uappeNEd 1() years aco: Eisenhower and Nixon swept the country. Back Mountain cast the Zid “ARMISTICE DAY” This day, short years ago, the world rejoiced, The blood encrusted blade again was sheathed, And there, with tongue of high resolve, was voiced A promise, nobly made, still unachieved. This day, conceived in hope, baptized with joyful tears That scattered raimbow hues o’er skies of peace Takes solemn pause and in the pulsing silence hears A far, thin bugle call speak sad release. This day of memories “that bless and burn,” When little winds of sorrow stir the heart, Knows fear as “blood and sweat and tears” return And distant thunder rumbles, lightnings dart. This day when love, with tender hands, bestows Its tribute to the gallant loved and lost The storm clouds lower and the darkness grows (Though endless rows of crosses speak the cost). This day, mid solemn stillness, prayers arise “Dear God grant courage to men’s groping minds That they may do Thy will, be strong and wise As hands grasp swords and hate, calm reason blinds.” “Another Calvary looms dark ahead Guide us, lest we betray these dead.” . «+ +» W. G. SEAMAN SE EN NN SN NN NO NN I ON Ns Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters RR RN NN NN SN So NNN NN NN NN NN EN IN YY NS Printed in FARM AND HOME, a national magazine, February 15, 1899: “I am six years old and go to school every day. I am in the sec- ond reader. I have a bicycle and I love to ride it. We have a fair ground near our home and some- times I ride around the track. I have a little sister two years old. Her name is Florence. I am learning to jump rope, and the other day I fell and skinned my nose. We live in a village in the country, about six miles from the anthracite coal mines. Ruth Gordon, Pennsylvania.” Ruth Gordon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred M. Gordon, grew up here and married Lou P. Taylor. They recently celebrated the fiftieth an- niversary of their wedding. For many years they have lived in At- lanta, Ga. Mrs. Taylor recently was in Dallas visiting her mother, Mrs. Bertha Gordon, age 91, and her sis- ter, Mrs. Florence Phillips, of Norton Avenue. The above letter appears in a combination scrap and writing book kept by Nora C. Gordon, a school teacher, sister of Fred M. Gordon. It contains clippings from THE DAL- LAS POST, WILKES-BARRE TELE- PHONE and other sources not marked, particularly selections of poetry. Latest dated clipping from THE DALLAS POST, June 16, 1900, reads as follows: “Mrs. Susan Loomis. nee Morgan, has left Ed Furgerson's at Meeker and gone back to live with William Steel, since which the Dal- las poor master has refused to longer support Mr. Steele.” (Clipping prob- ably kept as Ed Furgerson was a brother-in-law of Nora Gordon). There are a number of selections from The People’s Column, being letters to the editor on various sub- jects. In 1898 there were several spirited letters regarding a new schoolhouse at Demunds, which the directors built in spite of protests that the old one was good enough. Another letter, January 15, 1898, shows the bitterness still prevailing following the formation of the bor- ough about twenty years before. “It is hinted by some ‘that there is a scheme under way by a few Dallas borough men by which they hope to get the borough back into the township. But they will have a hard time of it, for it will be fought by the township. We had an expe- rience with the part of the township now known as Dallas borough, while they were with us, and now that we are free from them, and are running along smoothly, they need not both- er us by asking the township to take them back. While they were in the township we had to fight all the time to keep them from gobbling up every office in the township, and we want no more such experiences. They wanted high-toned school- houses and other things. They have got them, and now if any of them are dissatisfied with their lot, let them put up with it.” The signature was FAIR PLAY. The book, like an ordinary com- position book today, contains a lot of what is evidently original writing by Miss Nora Gordon, who wrote in a very plain hand, like the old copy book samples. Opposite several arti- cles is a clipping of the same from WILKES-BARRE TELEPHONE, Charles D. Linskill and J. (S. Sanders, Editors and Publishers, mostly in the 1880's. One, evidently intended as a lec- ture, on Woman’s Rights, is dated December 23, 1873, with a note added, ‘“Recited in the old church December 24, 1874.” Several are dated in 1885 marked B.S.N.S., which probably means Bloomsburg State Normal School. Subjects: Gos- siping, The New Crusade Prohibi- tion), Unnoticed Jewels, Influence; Onlys, Action, Self Reliance, The Decision, and others show the wide range of the writer’s thoughts. Dr. James R. Lewis, 79, oldest physician in Luzerne County, died at Trucksville November 3, 1883, having resided in ‘this area over fifty ‘years. When he came to Car- verton in 1831 most of the area was wilderness. His passing was widely noted at the time and a couple of years later, Miss Gordon wrote a memorial which was published in The Telephone. The back of the book, in addition to clippings of poetry: from various sources, contains twenty-five pages of carefully “handwritten poetry, none signed or otherwise identified, which may be the original work of Miss Gordon, perhaps not. One is dated February 21, 1886. Some of the so-called active and progressive women of ‘today might take a lesson from Miss Nora Gor- don. largest vote on record. Dallas Firefighters could be reached on a seven-firephone hook- up. Jim Besecker and Norti Berti, Jim Gensel, Tom Kingston, Al Shaf- fer, Evans Restaurant; all had phone installations in addition to phones at the Borough Building. Contracts for the mew pumper were signed, with delivery expected in late Feb- ruary. : Raymond Ku hn ert, supervising principal of Dallas-Franklin schools, announced resignation of Mary Mul- derig, teacher of French and Latin. Westmoreland F 0 ot ball Mothers asked for medical attention at games. Schooley fund. got an additional $008 w/o Nol Married: Marie Keefer, Harry J. Ritts, Jr.; Pamela Cadwell to Robert Kemmerer: Ada L. Morgan to Law- rence Brown. For the first half of the year, Pennsylvania farmers lost 87 farm animals to rabies. Tom Garrity was active in an Air Force Reserve survey covering six counties. Folks who sported red feathers in their lapels to protect them from solicitation, founid them a dead give- away. The Community Chest was saying it with buttons. ‘Raymon Hedden, a Republican ‘stalwart, nevertheless contributed to the comfort of President Truman's visit to the Valley by lending his visitor's use. Truman had a feud ‘new blue Lincoln convertible for the | Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott FISHING PROSPECTS Out of a lot of political hoo-ha about which legislator is respon- sible for what, come several im- portant facts about Back Mountain fishing prospects. One such item is the announce- ment by the Pennsylvania Fish Commission that a public boating and fishing access area on Harveys Lake ‘‘is being expedited as rapid- ly as possible.” With the new highway opened to traffic, the summer-traffic to such an area, combined with the usual swimming crowd, could mean a renaissance of what they call at some resorts the ‘shoe - boxer” trade. ‘“‘Shoe-boxers” come for the day, bring food and clothes in a shoe-box. What area is planned for boating and fishing waters has not yet been released by the Commission's real estate and engineering department, but will be as soon as arrangements have been made with the owners. The other fact about the local fishing scene which may raise some eye-brows is that public fishing access to North Lake is reputedly very limited. Recently one Chester Zaleski wrote a public letter in reference to this, among other items, as a blat- ant oversight on the part of Repre- sentative Curwood and the Fish Commission, of which Curwood was alleged to be a member. Bill Robbins, prominent expon- ent of effective game and forest conservation, Trucksville, responded Tuesday with a letter saying that, when the original stock was put in, the shoreline was about 70 per cent open. He recommends that Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club, which first pressed for a stock for North Lake, lobby for more access area if it is needed. Actually, despite the rapid in- crease in cottages around North Lake, there 4s one access area which is, and has been, absolutely public, according to Fish Commis- sioner James Yoder, ‘Also, there are three other areas on the lake which he knows to be open. If “No Trespassing” signs are up on public lands, then, they should, to my way of thinking, be ignored. After all, it does no harm for a resi- dent who dislikes people near his land to put up a few signs to see who he can scare. You'll see a few. The fish were stocked by the Commonwealth, paid with your money. Go ahead and enjoy your- self. MAD VEGETABLE-THROWER I think there may be a mad vegetable-thrower terrorizing Dallas Township. In one week, a frozen head of cauliflower went flying through a Tastee-Freeze stand plate-glass window, and a pumpkin dropped from near-by Overbrook Road overpass through the wind- shield of a moving car. Maybe we can get him up to Dallas Borough to throw a little rhubarb about slowness of business on Main Street, and down to Trucksville to raise a little cane about the water supply. Cynthia Ann Monka Mr. and Mrs. John S. Monka, Pioneer Avenue, announce the birth of a six ‘pound, fifteen ounce baby girl, Cynthia Ann, at Nesbitt Hos- pital. = This is their first child. Mrs. Monka is the former Loretta Ann Shonk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Genton Updyke of Courtdale. Mr. Monka is son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Monka of Fernbrook. Mother and baby returned to their home on Saturday. Grandma Updyke is taking care of them. with the Cadillac folks in Washing- ton, endorsed Lincolns instead. Wilson Garinger’s pigeon, making it from Miami to Dallas in six days, got a trophy, presented to Garinger by Potentate Harry Ohlman. Space was enlarged at [Shavertown Postoffice, giving postmaster Irvin Davis more room for sorting and additional boxes. Pennsylvania potato harvest was at an all-time low. Except for bread, which was low- er, food prices were not far different from those of today. Chickens were higher. Wiest Pittston trimmed Westmore- land by a close score, 19 ‘to 13. From— By was not as it should have been. enough so that its blossoms could dows, was a sad spectacle, its main branches that were still intact. pressure. That is the bush the downy proaching the suet feeder. to, but it must have been a sho which to reconnoitre. branches, that no cardinal could Plenty of folks, lost beautiful s to have such a wet, heavy snow, their leaves. branches. part survived. leaves, was a sitting duck. At the Dallas Post, the clock when it should have registered ten ‘A wild night, altogether. Winter again. @ o Looking At T-V With GEORGE A. and EDITH ANN BURKE Richard Egan’s new TV status in “Empire” has prompted MGM to ask him to play the original Clark Gable role in the movie remake of “San Francisco.” Shirley Jones already has been given the Jeanette Mac- Donald role, and Robert Preston is set for the Spencer Tracy part. MGM's TV division hasn’t aban- doned the idea of an Andy Hardy series, and there's a chance that Mickey Rooney, Jr., will inherit the role originated by his father. Marty Ingels is the newest TV star in his role as Fenster in the Tiney night comedy series “I'm Dickens. He’s Fenster.” He is a twenty-six-year-old, un- known entertainer. Marty is one person who didn’t start out to be an entertainer but was pushed into it by the general reaction to his rasping voice, expressive face and natural talent for being funny. According to Marty, people thought he was funny when he wasn’t trying. He once was expelled from school for being an “instiga- tor,” although he insists he did nothing more than ask logical ques- tions in class, When he did, how- ever, the rest of the pupils laughed. He has held a number of jobs since he gave up night courses at Queens College. He was a gas-appliance converter, a bookkeeper, longshore- man, bartender, greeting-card idea man and delivery boy. One of his more permanent jobs was being in the Army. He was sent to Fort Dix, N. Y. One day in the mess hall an attractive young lady kept staring at him. Finally she said, “You have a funny face.” She turned out to be a talent scout for the TV quiz show, “Name That Tune.” He was selected and won $6,000. After Army duty he determined that he wasn’t going to settle for any more hit and miss jobs, that ke Trees with bare branches mostly took it in their stride, which had already shed their leaves, let the snow sift through their The lilac bushes Sanding out in fhe open for the most Pillar To Post... Hix It was a winter wonderland Saturday night, but it left a lot of people very cold indeed. It wds hard to remember how beautiful the scenery was, under its heavy white blanket, when the furnace was off and life went on by candlelight. A lot of people missed their favorite television shows, too, but the Hixes on Pioneer Avenue suffered only a minor flickering of the lights, and were able to enjoy every minute of “The Defenders.” This constitutes an unwarranted pluming of the ego. be a pity to rub in the unhappinesd of the folks who missed it, by reenacting the plot, but it was well up to standard, and another in a long series of superior broadcasts. ‘ When Sunday morning. dawned, however, it developed that all That last glance out of the window into the swirling white, should have tipped us off. were already bending beneath the weight. simple to step outside — in galoshes and a hunting jacket and a pair of mittens, — to shake them off. The white lilac bush that had just this summer reached high Tt would The lilac bushes It would have been look into the sleeping porch win- stem splintered. There were other A rope let down from the sleeping porch, firmly tied at one end to a bedstead, slowly hoisted up the remaining branches, and a saw relieved the bush of the worst of the woodpeckers perch in, before ap- They still have a few little sprigs to cling ck to them to find the suet feeder nakedly displayed Sunday morning, without a sheltering branch from And as for the bird feeder with its freight of crumbs and sun- flower seeds, it. was so obscured by the overhanging dogwood find it. . But we know that we got off very easy indeed. hade ‘or fruit trees. It is unusual before trees and bushes had lost Bushes But anything that was at all sheltered, and still had most of its registered ten minutes past two, minuts past eight. The beauttiful Betsy Pryor roses were lying on the ground under mounds of snow. A huge apple tree had split down the middle. But providentially without wind. But it won't be many wionths before we see the first crocus. Maybe it's worth it to live in a climate where the winter is so unkind. It makes spring that much more welcome. ] PR was going to concentrate on beng in show business. His father, a restaurant supply man was disap- | pointed, he hoped that his son would become a dentist. An uncle, cousin and ‘two brothers were already suc- | cessful dentists. With his six thousand, Marty bought a car and went to California, where he enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse. His first acting assign- ment was an Agamemnon, but the spectators found his portrayal of the ’ # character funny instead of tragic. ¢ He got the same reaction in a pro- duction of “He Who Get Slapped,” and he was expelled from the school. He made a number of appearances on television with Phil Silvers, Steve Allen, Jack Paar and others. He filled in for vacation ‘Uncle Fred,” the host of a children’s pro- gram. He devised a game in which he would use a blackboard, writing down the names of animals as they were supplied by children in the studio audience. One day a young- ster called out “giraffe.” Marty mispelled. There w ere indignant letters from parents. His career as a children’s entertainer was cut short. Next he had an unsuccessful en- gagement in a Las Vegas night club. He went back to Hollywood with no luck. Before he left for home and the dentistry course he decided to make one more attempt. He gained admission to the Paramount lot by wearing an apron borrowed from a waiter and carrying containers of coffee. He managed to impress a recep- tionist, who persuaded Jerry Jewis & to interview him. A contract fol- lowed and, not long afterward, he was signed for the TV show. With Or Without—Over at CBS- TV there's been’ some talk about a contest to find out the viewer's preference — do they like Jackie Gleason with or without a mustache. Home From Hospital Mrs. Michael Sedler, after two weeks at Nesbitt Hospital, returned by ambulance to her home on Sed- ler ‘Lane, East | Dallas, Wedusiey = efiatuoon. i
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