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Crop-Dusters |
Crash Land,
Held By Snow
Three New Biplans
Are Damaged Fro
Freak Accident |
“This is one trip we shfld've
stayed home on,” drawled dshed
crop-duster Bill Tucker sadljto a
group of new-made friendgfrom
the Back Mountain. All thte of
the navigator’s brand-new gnes,
which made emergency landigs in
Dallas Township Thursday ifter-
noon, were damaged.
Louisiana-bound, with thdnext
check-point Harrisburg, the lanes
ran off course and out J £aS,
whistled inches over Shrizview
clotheslines, and miraculousljland-
ed, one upside down. Fo
Blizzard conditions for :veral
days after forced the pilots | two
of the open-cockpit, 2250 ound
Grumman AgCats to postpon their
trip from Forty Fort airport db Ly-
ons Flying Service, Welsh, Lowiana.
Only slightly damaged 1 the
forced landing Thursday, al ough
one flipped upside down, the| took
off next day from their mapshift
landing areas.
The third plane, having jnded
intact in a clover field on th Dor-
rance Reynolds farm along with
the one that flipped, somerfulted
on take-off Friday when ois
locked, and smashed badly.
disassembled the next da
trucked back to the factory
mira, origin of the trio.
Tucker thrilled the crowd !
Route 118, just west of Whi
Brothers Friday, by taxiing oi
short. distance and banking sh
almost immediately upon cle
the ground.
His audience, most of whom
just arrived from the scene ir
of the same.
The 39-year-old pilot, with
than twenty years experience,
joined the other salvagable cra at
the airport. . The latter was flwn
from the Reynolds farm, after|its |
‘propeller was replaced, by ovher
Emery Lyons himself, who fad
come from Elmira by car.
Tucker had landed on Route 118
Thursday without serious dam
diter séeing that Stanford put |
on rough ground. He did n
pilot Kenneth Kramer, 21,
spring ditch with his right
and flip his AgCat upside dow
Hotly pursuing Tucker was §
leyr Gardiner, Assistant Chief o
lice, who followed as best he |
through the Shrine Acres
Complaints had mounted from
rified "housewives who swore
airplanes were trying to crash
their homes.
Actually, the three pilots
been buzzing Route 309 tryi
land, but the traffic was too hj
Tucker was navigating by
and ground check-points for the
. light planes, which carry almdst
no ‘equipment for long-range flight.
He said he looked for ground-
markers, but ‘could see none, spec-
ulating that the Dallas marker vas
covered by snow. :
. ‘Without radios and directional
equipment, crop-dusting planes are
helpless in poor visibility. Tucker
attributed misdirection to unpré-
dicted winds which blew the planes
fifteen to eighteen miles off cour
in the first 60 miles.
The pilots tried to find Wyomin|
Valley airport, but visibility was
such that it was not possible to sez
even Wilkes-Barre, according to the
navigator.
Operations for righting the Kraft
mer plane and plowing a runwa |
for the two who landed in Zest
Dallas were directed by land-owne;
Although they didn’t know it at
the time, the three crop-dusting
ship’ Thursday were lucky. The
worst was yet to come.
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY [INSTITUTION
All
damage,
three had avoided serious
notwithstanding a
| field.
Only Unharmed Plane Crashes On Take-Off
Takeoff of the only undamaged
half | plane the next day was disastrous,
pilots who crash-landed their new | somersault by one of the pair which | when a wheel locked and the craft | wreck was reviewed sadly by the
planes out of gas in Dallas Town- | landed in an East Dallas clover- skidded and smashed head over chief pilot and Police Chief
| heels (above left).
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| Lying on its back, with smoke
| pouring out of a broken engine, the
Frank
| Lange. CEA
Crop Dusting
Pilots Off Ground
Two Louisiana crop-dusting pilots
took off from Wyoming Valley
Municipal airport late Tuesday eve-
ning, according to the tower, ‘after
waiting out: a frozen New Year
which prevented their engines from
working.
The new planes were salvaged
from a forced landing in Dallas
Township Thursday, when they ran
out of gas en route from the Grum-
rasan factory in Elmira to Lyons
Flying Service, Welsh, La.
_ One other crashed in an attempt-
ed take-off Friday from its make-
shift runway on the Dorrance Rey-
nolds farm, East Dallas.
Postage Rates
Rise January 7
The day of the four-cent stamp
is on the way out. For the remain-
| der of this’ week it will still carry
a first-class = envelope.
| Monday of next week it will take
"a five-cent stamp for regular first
| class mail, an eight-cent stamp for
|
air. mail. 2 &
|. “Fod¥-ceit stamps are still ‘good . .
Lif supplemented by a. one cent
| stamp. They will also come in
handy for airmail, a pair of fours.
Besecker Home
James Besecker came home four
days before Christmas, after three
weeks spent at Nesbitt Hospital. He
is now permitted to be up for four
| hours a day, recovering satisfactorily
from a heart attack.
Pat Reynolds and her lessee, farmer
Joe Rodriguez, with tractors.
Assisting there, and also with
the plane at Whitesell Brothers’,
were State Police Aviation Investi-
gator Nick Pauley, Police Chief
Frank Lange, and Gardiner,
Damage to the land was little,
according to Rodriguez, but Stan-
ford’s plane suffered a broken crank-
shaft and rudder assembly, and
miscellaneous damage, to wings,
struts, ‘and propeller.
All pilots were held in their
crafts by safety belts. Only other
extra equipment carried were some
spare wingtips, which regularly get
knocked off during the hazardous
crop-dusting.
Gas tanks have only thirty gal-
lons capacity, in order to keep
weight down, and the planes,
brought on the market in 1960,
lcan fly just a few hours between
| refueling.
Hears Himself Reported
Dead On Late Broadcast
Back in) ‘Lockport, N. Y., Air
Force Base as good as new except
for one cracked rib, Rowland R.
Ritts Jr. says the report of his
death on the late news Christmas
Eve was greatly exaggerated. When
the news flash came, the 19-year-
old radar and electronics man was
enjoying television at home, while
his parents were at midnight Mass
at Our Lady of Victory Chapel
where Mrs. Ritts directs the choir.
The car which he wag driving
early the morning of ‘the 24th was
completely demolished , when it
struck a tree three miles south of
Tunkhannock. tate Police called
Tunkhannock Community Ambu-
lance, which took the dazed service
man to Tyler Memorial Hospital
for X-Rays and for suturing of scalp
lacerations: In spite of hot coffee
and a rest in Towanda; Ritts ap-
parently fell asleep at the wheel.
Young Ritts is a 1962 graduate
of ‘West Side Catholic High School,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Ritts
of Oak Hill. Mrs. Ritts reports that
the State Police could not have
been more concerned, and that she
they rendered.
‘Hillside Cow Is
"Tron Grandma”
“Super Select Honor
Conferred On Cow
Latest entry in the super-select
“iron grandma” club of the dairy
world is a 14-year-old Registered
Holstein cow in the herd of Hillside
Farms, Inc, Trucksville.
She is Hillside Princess Path-
finder 2964467 (GP) who ranks
as the 179th cow to top the 100-
ton mark in the official production
testing programs of The Holstein-
Friesian Association of America.
Princess” has averaged more than
44 lbs. of milk a day for every day,
milking and dry, since her second
birthday in June, 1950. Her cumu-
lative total of 200,017 lbs. of milk
and 7,177 lbs. of butterfat is more
than eight times the lifetime output
of the average U. S. dairy cow.
She hit her peak as a 13-year-
old with .305-day totals of 23,859
lbs. of milk and 870 lbs. of butter-
fat.
| Weighing and testing of all of
her production has been supervised
by Pennsylvania State University
as part of the official breed im-
| provement work of the national
Holstein organization.
Dallas
Not all of the Dallas Rotary
guests are here... Cheated ¢
their spot in the sun alon
their pilot, Jack Landis, are
children from Lehman whos
did not arrive in time for t
ture-taking December 15 at
otary Club Entertains Children At Party
parish hall. By the time
ering had completely as-
there were 106 guests, all
had a marvelous time.
g in the background, left
are Ross Walker, Rev. An-
arella, Joseph Law, An-
thony Guida, Dale Parry, Francis
| Ambrose, Sheldon Mosier, Wilson
| Garinger, Ralph Postorive, George
| Jacobs, Dr. Robert A. Mellman, H.
R. McCartney, John Konsavage, and
Joseph Sekera,
.
Babson Park, Mass. — Fast.
annual forecast “The process
cally-oriented market in which
putting it away will probably
on rekindled enthusiasm.”
Spear expects the Dow: to range
between 570 and 750 in ’63, with
600-720 as the ‘inside” range to
be maintained if no outright bull
or bear assault occurs. Earnings
of the Dow Industrials are pegged
at 34 for next year in the Spear
forecast, or close to ’62’s anticipated
results. “With the market now
trading in the’ lower portion of its
expected ’63 range,” said Mr. Spear,
“the upside potentials somewhat
is sold solid on the service which |
| outweighed downside risks.”
Observing that there is little evi-
dence suggesting another economic
boom in the near future, Spear had
this warning for investors: ‘Don’t
tie your investment purse str’igs
solely to words from Washingtun,
for certain economists are apt to
adjust their own economic thinking
to suit political purposes. Frankly,
we see little chance for renewed
: om
Business and Employment
The business situation will vary
with different industries, and hence
with different cities. = Some de-
fense centers will boom; steel cities
will still find the going tough . . .
but better than a year ago. Con-
sidering the high level of the past
ten years it will not be surprising
for 1963 to show a moderate decline
in business. If so it should come
in the second or third quarter, with
recovery in ‘the fourth quarter,
followed by a good 1964.
Disposable personal income will
remain high. With increased "sav-
ings deposits and little change in
the cost-of-living, the public should
continue to spend freely, especially
if merchants maintain their adver-
tising outlays!
Inventories will remain about the
same during 1963. But government
spending will increase over $3 bil-
lion — largely on defense — and
$2 million on new roads. Whether
manufacturers: will hike their ex-
penditures for new machinery in
1963 in view of the depreciation
tax credit, I would not now fore-
cast.
All this means that business and
employment for your city in 1963
will depend largely upon the atti-
tude of its leading businessmen. If
they will be optimistic and spend
more on new plants, advertising,
and salesmanship, we should have
nothing to fear.
Stocks and Bonds
My father used to tell me, “It is
okay, Roger, for you to make fore-
casts . . . but never put dates on
them!” I forecast that the Dow-
Jones Industrial Average will reg-
ister lower sometime during 1963
and stocks will show an average
\ yield of about 4%. Either dividends
must be increased or prices of
stocks must go lower. Both can-
not continue forever so poorly ad-
justed.
The above comment refers pri-
marily to industrial: stocks. I fore-
cast that both the gross and net
earnings of utility cumulative pre-
ferreds have reached a point where-
by they will closely follow interest
rates as determined by the Federal
Reserve Banks. The utility .com-
mon stocks should slowly rise in
price provided they are not un-
justly limited by legislation or by
state and federal regulatory com-
misions.
As for the railroad stocks, I gen-
erally feel bearish. A war with
Cuba or a world nuclear war break-
ing out anywhere could cause the
stocks of all our transcontinental
railroads to go up sharply in price;
but down they would come again.
We are today in an electronic age
and no longer in a railroad age.
economic vigor in the year ahead.
Spear “Moderately Optimistic” es
Says Timing Vital In 1963
footwork will be the key to
profitable stock investments in 1963, according to Spear &
Staff, Inc., investment advisors.
optimistic view, Roger E. Spear, president, said, in the firm’s
Taking only a moderately
of buying good stocks is going
to become a lot tougher, and profits will be anything but guar-
anteed. We look for a continuing news-sensitive and techni-
the idea of buying a stock and
give way to the concept of ac-
curate timing — buying sound issues on weakness and selling
{ Nor do we expect to receive any tax
. benefits: — even halfway ones -—
| before late next year at ' the
| earliest.”
| Investment opportunities still
| abound for the: alert and courage-
| ous investor, Spear says, selecting
: 14 groups as potentially favorable
i for 1963: Aerospace, Airlines, Auto
| Parts, Bus Lines, Chemicals, Con-
| struction Machinery, Drugs, Electric
1 Utilities, Electrical Equipment, Elec-
tronics, International Oils, Radio-
TV, Rails,
The dozen stocks rated highest
I for growth potential in Spear &
Staff's annual forecast are: “Quality
{ Giowth Issues”: Bristol-Myers, Her-
| cues Powder, Litton, Pfizer, RCA,
and: Texaco; “Higher Risk Growth
i Issues’: Alberto-Culver, Bobbie
| Brooks, Collins. & Aikman, Curtis
Mathes, Delta Airlines, and Lease-
way Transportation.
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Those who desire to invest in com-
mon stocks should stick to the oils,
chemicals, and electronics. Even
then keep in mind Newtons’ Law
of Action and Reaction which will
always determine the time to buy
and sell common stocks.
Regarding bonds'I1 am not pessi-
mistic + for 1963. (Certainly, the
non-taxable bonds will sell higher
during 1963. Also, good short-
term corporation and government
bonds will be safest to hold. Long-
term corporation and government
i bonds may sell for less sometime
during 1963. Long-term bond
prices vary with interest rates and
the probability of inflation.
Building and Real Estate
There may be some decline in
residential | building in 1963;
shopping centers in many develop-
ments may remain at a standstill
for a while. However, so much mon-
ey is piling up in savings banks
which must be invested, it seems
that by 1964 many more new homes
will be built. In this connection,
when purchasing a house or bus-
iness property, be sure to study the
land, which usually
price while the value of the building
declines.
‘When constructing mew frame
! houses, build either single homes or
| houses with only two apartments
i on the ground floor. There will be
| considerable new building of brick
| apartment houses, which should
{keep filled so long as they are well
| maintained. Old apartments and old
{houses will decline in price during |
1963. :
home building generally does not
apply to government or public build-
ings, or to all commercial buildings.
The real estate developers, however,
must spend more on advertising in
1963 to meet the growing compe-
| tition.
| Retail Trade
Naturally, there will be a season-
al letdown in retail trade after
Christmas and the markdowns
which follow January 1. That will
be the time ‘to look for bargains.
Scan the advertisements well. This
especially applies to merchandise
that depends more or less on style.
such as dresses, coats, hats, and
shoes. Buy good-quality items that
can be passed down to the younger
children. Over all, I expect 1963 to
see a somewhat higher level of re-
(tail trade than has prevailed in
11962. :
Purchases made af
downs could be good
real mark-
ause for open-
ing a new charge punt. But be
| very careful ‘to bys name for
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and Truck Operations. |
and |
improves in |
The less attractive outlook for |
Schools Suffer
Minor Damage
Sub-Zero Weather
Freezes Plumbing
Dallas schools, which remained
closed yesterday because of minor
damage suffered by plumbing over
the sub-zero weekend, will open
again this morning. 5
Liake-Lehman schools had no
shut-down, though drinking foun-
tains were frozen in some of the
experienced at Ross Township,
where custodian John Taylor re-
mained on duty night and day dur-
ing thie sub-zero emergency.
Some“. of the custodians in the
Dallas District also remained on
duty for twenty hour stretches, un-
der direction “of Johr-Pall main-
tenance man. You
Yesterday, Dr. Robert A. Mell*
man, Mr. Paul, and architects con-
ferred with plumbers over trouble
centering about the auditorium.
Dallas Junior high school suffer-
ed similiar freeze-ups: Shavertown
frame elementary building was the
only unit which remained un-
scathed.
Insulation had not been entirely
completed at the new Lake-Lehman
building, but damage was astonish-
ingly light. At Ross Elementary,
principal Myron Moss gave the
credit for keeping the damage al-
most to the vanishing. point, to a
dedicated custodian.
Custodians all over the Back
Mountain sacrificed their holiday to
keep ‘the heating plants in full
enough operation to ward off
catastrophe.
Brutal Cold
Sweeps Area
Service Stations Do
Landoffice Business
* Brutal cold swept into the area
last Sunday ‘night on the wings of
a bitter northwest wind which piled
new fallen snow into drifts, im-
mobilized cars, froze plumbing, and
forced the thermometer down to
sub-zero - temperatures.
It was eight below at noon out
on Upper Demunds Road on Mon-
| day; zero in central Dallas; fifteen
| below at Pikes Creek, long consider-
ed the ice-box of the Back Moun-
tain; a similar reading out at Orange
Dairy; eight below at the State In-
stitution. And colder weather pre-
dicted for the early morning hours
of the New Year.
Service stations were swamped
with frantic calls.
By New Year's morning the
weather had moderated, and a bleak
forecast of fifteen. below was not
| realized.
Yesterday the thermometer was
on the way up, and furnaces that
had run constantly enjoyed a brief
breathing spell.
Service stations reported that it
has been years since there was so
great a demand for help.
Brings Federal Suit
A Lake Township woman is bring-
ing suit in Federal Court, Scranton,
for injuries sustained in an auto
| accident along Route 115 in Saylors-
burg, October 28, 1961.
Commencing the action is Louise
Scholl, Harveys Lake RD 1, claiming
$25,000 damages. Defendant is Lou-
ise Wnukowski, Dunellen, N.J., op-
erator of the car in which plaintiff
was passenger.
Suit may be brought in a federal
court when litigants are citizens of
| different states.
more exposed locations in the new |
high school, and minor trouble was
VOL. 75, NO. 1 TH
Fund In Memory
Ot H. W. Risley
Memorial Library
Will Reap Benefit
A Memorial Fund is being started
for Howard Risley, for benefit of
Back Mountain Memorial Library.
The Library was Howard's con-
ing interest. Everything that
cted the Library, affected him.
ithout the Dallas Post’s con-
tired support, and the unswerving
loyilty of its editor, the Library
could never have attained its pres-
ent’ status.
It is fitting that the man who
frenly gave his property and count-
less@hours of his time to establish-
inc @®re annual Auction which in
la part gupports the Library,
sk¥ (dd be given a living memorial.
Many people will feel privileged
to contribute. Checks should be
made out to the Howard Risley
Memorial Fund and sent to the
Library.
It always gave Howard a tre-
mendous “thrill to see how many
children used the Library.
Let the children contribute as
well as the parents, so that they
| can feel themselves a true part of |
a sorrowing community. It is a
heartening experience to join hands
in a common grief.
Children who have dropped by
for a lollipop; children who have |
been taken on a personally con-
ducted tour to see the monkey;
children who have had their fourth- |
grade poems accorded a place of
. they |
honor in the Dallas Post . .
all deserve the privilege of having
a hand in the Memorial Fund.
Let them come to the Library
in person with their small change.
Taking part in a heartfelt expres-
sion of affection for an irreplaceable
leader of the community is part of
growing up.
Faculty Team Named
For Zany Ball-Game
Dallas Senior High School Faculty
All-Stars have announced their
winning combination team for to-
morrow’s - basketball game with the
redoubtable Harlem Satellites.
On the floor at 8 p.m. for the |
home team will be: Clint 'Brobst,
Leonard Kozick, Don Fossedal,
William Price, Arthur Hontz. John
Cathrall, George McCutcheon, Rob-
ert Dolbear, Gerald Stinson, Alan
Husband, William Morgan, Louis
Palermo, and John Sulkoski.
Sponsored by Dallas High School
Athletic Council, the game proceeds
will be used for annual School
Recognition Banquet in the spring,
when all athletes, band and out-
standing students are honored.
Tickets are on sale at many local
business. places, 75 cents for stu
dents and $1.for adults.
URSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1
Howard Risley
Leaves Are
The Last Ti
Editor Is Buried
Saturday Momin
Bt Tunkhannock
Howard West Risley, editod
lisher of the Dallas Post, who
in the early morning hours of
day after Christmas, was by
Saturday morning in the fai
plot at Sunnyside Cemetery, Tu
hannock.
Rev. Russell Lawry, pastor
Dallas Methodist Church, was al
sisted ‘by Rev. Charles Gilbe
conducting services held at
home. Committal services at
cemetery, where a bitter v
swirled the snow under the canog
and glazed the highways, were heli
to the minimum.
Honorary pallbearers were Fred
| Eck, David Schooley, Sheldon
| Evans, Henry Peterson, Raymon
| Hedden, H. W. Smith, Atty. Mitchell
| Jenkins, Frank Slaff, and Wilbur
Fleck.
| Carrying the casket were Lei
ton Scott, Durelle Scott, Dana Sv
Robert Bachman, Harry Smi
James Lohman, and Warren Hicks:
Incredulous friends thronged the
house in the days before the fu~
neral. People were asked not te
| send flowers, but people could not
(bear to see Howard go to his final
rest without the sad tribute, ag
flowers were there in profujs
scenting the house, blanketin
| frozen ground.
| It is over, and the Dalla
| dealt an almost mortal b}
| the death of this man, is ple
carry on its responsibilities
people of the Back Mountai:
| The staff cannot pencil a
at the end of his obituary.
A “thirty” means the end.
Howard will live in the he
his community, blazing the ws3
| tolerance and understanding
| a bright future for the
Mountain.
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Two Cars Smash
| Due To Snow-Drift
In the only sericus acci
of the mountain over the
holiday, two old cars were
ished on the Fairmon:-Red
road, and two teenagers rcoui)
minor injuries,
Drivers were Robert Evans, 1
Glen Lyon and [Samuel Kittle,
| Dallas RD 4. Charelyn Evans, 17
| passenger in Evans’ car suffered
| bruised knee. Marvin Kittle,
| passenger in the Kittle car was ¢
{on the forehead.
State police said both vehic]
i collided when both attempted
| pass through the one- lane orp
| through the snow. 3
~
Heartless Wretch
Shoots Terrier,
Five Blind Puppies Freeze To Death
Claude + H. Cooke, Overbrook
Avenue, was shocked to come upon
the body of a female terrior shot
to death at Nulton Hollow, North
Mountain, while out bird hunting
recently with his grandson, Charles
H. Cooke, Utah.
Six feet away from the mother’s
body lay five little black puppies,
four days old.
Mr. Cooke, who raised’ English
setters for years and has always
loved dogs, says it appears that
some wretch carted the animals to
the spot, then killed the mother.
The little pups, blindly searching for
warmth and nourishment, were left
l to freeze to death.
Mr. Cooke told some of his neigh
| bors about his discovery and the;
too came away bitter at the hea
lessness of people who havd, si
!little regard for life, after vigwi
| the remains which now lie b
, under the heavy snowfall.
| . The Cookes have always {av
their children to love animals. 117%
| feel that stronger measures should
be passed to stop trespassers from
| disposing of their unwanted animals
| in the Back Mountain area, and
stiffer sentences passed upon the
transgressors.
|
Misericordia’'s Glee Club is seen
here at the Christmas Assembly held
Walsh Auditorium. Music was
the predominant expression of the
in
students’ Christmas spirit.
the program was the performance
and Glee Club,
| |
Core of |
of Misericordia’s String Quartette | ducted ‘the student Jog
“A Christmas Med-! sang
ley” was also sung by The Camilian | cofnpaniment
College Misericordia Glee Club Sings Carols
55 5
oR
Trio, Carol Ann Smith, Mary Lou
Petro, and. Margaret Mary Balz. |
Miriam Howells was their accom-
panist. Duet Mary Petro and Virgin-
ia Ménn sang “O Holy Night.” Lor-|
raine Rowe and Carolyn Ainge-c
hymns and se
of
Ann Aatoy
Sister
dent ©
Christmg
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