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“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
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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’
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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”
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“*%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
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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.”
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By The Oldtimer
— D. A. Waters
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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.
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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. ]
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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
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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.
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