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Editorially Speaking:
A POLITICAL GRAB?
Ji By Dorothy Anderson
The old adage of “Strike When the Iron is Hot,” is
applicable to the current unrest in Kingston Township
over its affiliation with the Wilkes-Barre Post Office.
The great majority of residents were unaware of all
that the political grab entailed.
Service began, and forces of both offices were thrown
together before houses were correctly numbered.
Did they have to move fast because an incoming ad-
ministration would not condone their plan?
Mountain
Top likewise fell under its jurisdiction.
We are nine miles away from Wilkes-Barre.
Why
should we be classed as part and parcel of the office lo-
cated there?
Door to door delivery sounded great to unsuspecting
citizens, while surveys completed for just such a service
prepared by local postmasters, could not be made public
until postal officials approved.
We are proud of our Back Mountain region and ‘the
fresh atmosphere where we propose to live and raise our
families.
We do not appreciate losing our individuality
unless it be for the common good of the entire region.
Trucksville, an old community, completely lost its
“identity when the transfer of postal facilities was made.
Our own Post Office
bearing the proud title of
Shavertown-Trucksville is permissible under the postal
laws.
Door to door delivery can still be maintained, using
our own citizens as employees.
Hundreds of names on
with consideration by the Postal Department.
It is not too late to do something about it.
move quickly.
a petition can easily meet
Let's
The time to keep Kingston Township independent
is now.
Chilly Weekend Ahead For Scouts
| Of BR vr Boy Troop 232
Tt looks like a chilly weekend for
Jchn Butler's Boy Scouts, but they
have camped out fin sub-zero
weather, in a howling blizzard, in|
| Mass at Gate of Heaven.
drenching rain, and iat the other end
of the spectrum, have baked on
their annual canoe-paddle down the
Susquehanna, finishing the week
with peeling noses and blistered
backs. Hardy bunch, not to men-
tion Mr. Butler and Jim McCoog.
On Thursday, Boy Scouts of
Troop 232 will pitch their tents in
the Back Mountain Shopping Center.
This is the way the schedule looks:
Activities for Scout week.
g THURSDAY
Set up Tents’ in Back Mountain
Shopping Center.
FRIDAY
5:00: Set up Camp — build fires
in stoves. Prepare Ground beds.
/ 6:00 PM. — Prepare to WEL-
Set up Demon-
strations; prepare Coffee and Donuts.
7:00: Rope making and Knot
Tying, Prizes for visitors tying 5
knots.
8:00: FIRST AID Demonstration
By Scouts.
Kingston Township Ambulance
Team Demonstration.
10:00: Prepare for Bed.
SATURDAY
7:00 AM. — Arise, wash and pre-
pare Breakfast. Clean up.
9:00: Inspection; Explorers start
Hunter Stew for Dinner for all.
3s 9:20: Signalling - Compass - Rope
~ Making - Knot Tying and Map
Making.
12:00: Dinner — Hunters Stew-
Hard Rolls.
2:30: Break Camp.
National Scout Sunday, February
10th. All Catholic Cubs, Boy
Scouts and Explorers Invited to
receive Communion with 232 at St.
Therese’s at 8:45 Mass; at the 9:00
Monday 11th: Parents Night-Open
House. Presentation of awards.
Formal Inspection of Scouts. Demon-
strations. Refreshments.
Tuesday 12th: The winning Patrols
in the recent contests will go to a
show, and have something to eat
after the show.
Ambulance Puts In
Full Day Thursday
Kingston Township Ambulance
crew had a full day Thursday.
At 2:30 p.m. they were called to
take Jennie Hooper to Wyoming
Valley Hospital; Mrs. Stella Bartle-
son was taken to Nesbitt Hospital
at 5 p.m.
While returning home, the men
received an emergency call to rush
to the scene of an accident on Route
309. Dr. Walter Mokychic and
Mrs. Anna Getz were taken to Nes-
bitt Hospital.
Kreischer, Roan, H. Smith aad.
Pugh manned the first trip. Yeust,
Kreischer, Smith and Pugh took
the next calls with William Fred-
erick, captain, on hand to admin-
ister oxygen to Mrs. Getz, who was
in critical condition.
Breaks Arm On Ice
Verne Pritchard, Trucksville, tax
collector of Kingston Township,
slipped on the ice near home Sun-
day and broke several bones in his
lefit, wrist. A cast was applied by
Dr, Charleg Perkins Tuesday,
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
Miss Flora Brown, teacher of the
J. B. C. Class of Dallas ME.
Church, was honored at a dinner.
Teacher of a boys’ class since 1914,
mary school S.S. teacher.
Dallas took Kingston Township
23 to 19.
Sixty tax-payers of Dallas Town-
ship formed an association dedica-
ted to lowering of taxes.
J. F. Besecker was showing the
first of the new line of V-8 Fords,
a radical departure in motor cars.
Three-cent postage for letters
went into effect, and an editorial
said that folks were looking for
ways to use third-class mail in-
stead. It cited the law of diminish-
ing returns, said postal revenue
was being lost which could not be
regained, and deplored the situa-
tion.
You could get veal roast for 12
cents a pound, boiling beef for six.
It Huppened
20 Years Ago
Melvin Adler, Shavertown, serv-
ing somewhere in the Pacific, was
wounded in action.
Basketball teams abandoned te
idea of bobsleds for transportation
to games, adopted haywagons in-
stead. Too many bare spots on the
roads.
Joe MacVeigh was named Col-
onel for West Side War Chest
drive.
Corporal Charles H. Morgan, De-
munds, was reported a Japanese
prisoner.
Nc word had been received of
the whereabouts of Walter Wilson,
Dallas, believed to have been on
Corregidor when that stronghold
fell,
Dallas ‘Borough high school had
its third band-leader since the first
of the year, George Griffith suc-
ceeding David Smith.
A new siren was installed at the
observation post on Parrish Heights.
Luzerne County farmers hoped
to have the school term shortened,
so students’ could help with farm
work, replacing men in service.
Lehman was having a rough
time filling vacancies on its faculty.
Mrs. Dorothy W. Major was hired
for a third grade teacher, two oth-
er positions remained vacant.
Harvesting of 14 inch ice at Har-
veys Lake went forward steadily.
From servicemen: Robert Dierolf,
Louisiana; James Knecht, Camp
Campbell; Albert Mekeel, Florida;
Arden Evans, Camp Polk; Howard
Carey, England; Edward Parrish,
Fort Bragg; Gilbert F. Huey, San
Francisco APO; Stephen Hayer,
Colorado; William Paul Sutton,
Richmond; Harry E. Metzger, Kess-
ler Field; Alderson boys: George
Kuchta, Lloyd Garinger, Virginia,
William Gaynor in Massachusetts,
Thomas Garrity and Charlie Kern
in Florida; Glenn Kitchen, Fort
Custer; Foster D. Sutton, Camp
Shelby; Robert E. Davis, hospital
at Scott Field; Durwood Splitt, in
hospital at Camp Edwards; Willard
Rogers, Utah; Rudy Fanit, Camp
Wheeler; Robert B, Price, Gulfport;
Leonard Harvey, Brooklyn.
Entering the service, a third son
of the Templins, William, aviation
cadet; Harry Snyder, Miami, avia-
tion cadet; Mrs. Joan Harvey,
WAVES. Donald Hoover, aviation
cadet. Clarence Boston, Lehman
principal, meteorologist.
Died: Ruth Lewis,
Dallas resident.
68, former
It Happened
§0 Years Ago
Blood Donor Day in memory of
Dr. Sherman Schooley netted the
Red Cross 141 pints.
Library Association elected How-
ard Risley president, succeeding
Miss Frances Dorrance. Elected to
the board of directors were Charles
James, Bud Silverman, Harry Ohl-
man, Paul Goddard, Mrs. Lewis Le-
Grand, Paul Warriner, James
Hutchison, Arthur Ross. For two-
year terms, Mrs. Harold Titman,
Mrs. Ray Hedden, D. T. Scott, Mrs.
A. D. Hutchison, Mrs. Mae Town-
end, Mrs. H. W. Smith, Fred Eck,
Robert Bachman, George Taylor.
For 3 years: Mrs. Archbald Brooks,
Henry Peterson, Mrs. Fred Howell,
Charles Nuss, Mitchell Jenkins,
Raymond Kuhnert, Howard Risley,
Mary Weir, Paul Gross.
On the coldest day of the year,
a boiler blew up at Guyette’s in
Trucksville, injuring nobody, but
scaring the staff stiff. Clouds of
steam, torrents of boiling water,
due to a stuck safety-valve.
Died: Mrs. Alida Weaver, 63,
Lehman native. Mrs. Maude W.
Keller, 75, Shavertown.
Married: Mary Ellen Humphreys
to Thomas Franklin. Doris Marion
Grey to Richard Schooley.
Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Will-
iam F. Myers, 56th.
New Information Officer
At Benton Air Force Base
Newly installed Information Of-
ficer at Benton Air Force Base is
Lt. Richard Cohen, succeding Lt.
Frank Clark. Lt. Cohen lives at
Harveys Lake, occupying a cottage
at Wattahunee Park. He comes from
New York City.
she was, prior to that date, a pri-
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1963
CRNRRKS SRRIRS
TR ER RE EN ERR RRR RRR RRRS ERAKRNS
Roping Around
By The Oitrtmer — D. A. Waters
Commentators and columnists
are still debating whether William
Scranton is the 41st or the 103rd
governor of Pennsylvania, more or
less a few numbers in either case.
Obviously there cannot be this great
difference in fact, the counting is
different.
Like the case in the U.S., wheth-
er Grover Cleveland should be
counted once or twice as president,
many men have held office in
Pennsylvania more than one term
or one time. Then there were all
kinds of acting governors, tempor-
ary governors, deputy governors,
and lieutenant governors, not to
mention presidents of this or that
ranking as governors, and at first,
William Penn, Proprietor and Gov-
ernor, and his sons and grandsons.
The Penns owned .and ruled Penn-
sylvania for ninety-five years, fin-
ally after the Revolution destroyed
their charter rights, sold it to the
state for one hundred and thirty
thousand pounds, a lot of money in
those days. This was not all profit.
The family had spent a lot of mon-
ey in the colony, and had received
some before.
William Penn was in the colony
only two periods of about two years
each. Once his colony was taken
away from him by the King and
added to the domains of the Royal
Governor Benjamin Fletcher of New
York, but later returned. In William
Penn’s absence and all the time
later, Deputy governors, lieutenant
governors, or presidents of the
council, performed the functions of
governor, one time five deputies
' serving jointly. This period accounts
for about forty in the big number
of governors, some: of them counted
three or four times. William Mark-
ham served off and on over a per-
iod of eighteen years in three per-
iods. In between and later Thomas
Lloyd served four times in nine |
years. Later James Hamilton serv-
ed three times, intermittently, over
twenty-three years. The really big
man in Penn’s time was James Lo-
gan, his Provincial secretary, who
held office as president of the coun-
cil only one two-year period rank-
ing as governor. He probably held
other offices.
On July 8, 1775 the Provingial
Assembly passed résolutions ap-
pointing a Committee of Safety
with Benjamin Franklin as Presi-
dent. Later a convention appointed
a Council of Safety July 24, 1776.
On March 5, 1777 the Council of
Safety and the General Assembly
were organized as the Supreme
Executive Council, the presidents
ranking as the real governor for
one year terms. This period ac-
counts for about a dozen of the big
numbers as governor, some counted
more than once. This was under
the Constitution of 1776.
Those who count 41 governors
start with the Constitution of 1790,
in effect 49 years, with governors
serving three-year terms. First was
Thomas Mifflin, of Quaker extrac:
tion, who was a major general in
the Revolution, a member of the
Continental Congress, and current-
ly served as president of the Su-
preme Executive Council, who pro-
fessed no political party. Following
him there were 2 Democratic-Re-
publicans (forerunners of the pres-
ent Democrats), 1 Antimason, 2
Whigs, 13 Democrats and 22 Repub-
licans. Some lists show more Demo-
cratic-Republicans and fewer Demo-
crats.
Three year terms were continued
by the new Constitution of 1838,
but this was changed by the present
Constitution of 1873 to four years,
incumbents prohibited from suc-
ceeding themselves. Mifflin served
eleven years and several others
more than one term, Under the
present Constitution Robert E.
Patterson and Gifford Pinchot each
served twice with another governor
between the terms, John C. Bell
served twenty days when Edward
Martin resigned to become U.S.
Senator.
Those who want to get real tech-
nical, and build up the 103 gover-
nors, remember there were five
hundred whites in the territory
when it was named Pennsylvania,
before Penn assumed control. The
Dutch claimed the Delaware area,
called the South River, from 1624
to 1664. The Swedes had governors
of their Delaware Colony beginning
in 1638 until they were captured
by Dutch Peter Stuyvesant in 1655.
Their first governor was the same
Peter Minuit who bought Manhat-
tan Island for $24 for the Dutch
long before. All were captured by
the English in 1664 and held until
recaptured by the Dutch in 1673,
and again capturedsand held by the
English in 1674, the English Gov-
ernor being Sir Edmund Andros.
There is a long list of governors,
commanders, etc. covering this
long pre-Penn period.
Apparently the first actual resi-
dent Governor in what is now
Pennsylvania was Johan Printz,
who built a log mansion, called
Printzhof, on Tinicum Island and
occupied it in June 1644. Earlier
Swedes resided at Fort Christiana,
now in Delaware.
At his big dinner opening the
place in| the place the engagement
of his beautiful daughter, Armegot,
nineteen, to Capt. Johni Pappegoja,
attractive young commandant at
Fort Christiana was announced. He
succeeded his father-in-law as gov-
ernor.
The marriage of Armegot Printz
to" Captain John Pappegoja by Rev-
erend John Campanius in the new
Trinity Church, is the first recorded
Christian wedding in Pennsylvania.
It was the culmination of the first
known romance among white
people of the state.
Hummel, Confined To Wheelchair,
Is Co-Editor Of Valley Crest News
by Chaplain Charles Gilbert
It has been a long five years for
Larry Hummel, now co-editor of the
Valley Crest News, which he edits
from his wheelchair.
With a sickening crash the two
cars met head-on in front of Duke
Isaacs on the Dallas Highway. It.
was ten at night on December 1,
1958 when Larry Hummell and his
wife were riding in a car driven by
Larry’s brother William. A car ap-
proaching tried to pass a trailer,
smashed into the Hummell car
sending all three to Nesbitt Hospit-
al. William’s legs were broken. Mrs.
Hummell’s scalp was torn from her
forehead. Larry’s right knee hit the
dash, smashing his thigh bone into
his hip socket. Later he was re-
moved to General Hospital where
in May 1959 bone grafting was done
and for six months he was encased
in a full body cast to include the
upper right leg.
Many Dallas area people remem-
ber the Hummells. Larry and his
wife lived across from Checkerboard
Inn on Carverton Road. Twenty five
years ago he managed the Amer-
ican Stores in Shavertown and
Trucksville. The older son Pfc, John
Hummell ig a cook and baker with
the U.S. Army. After two years in
Germany he has re-enlisted for six
more years. Larry G., age 15, grad-
vated from Westmoreland High in
1959, now attends Coughlin High,
working part time. William has res
covered from his’ accident and is
now working at Whitesells Lumber.
Mrs. Hummell has resumed work as
a clerk at Boston Store.
By December 1959 Larry could
get about in a wheel chair. He sold
his home in Trucksville and moved
into a house across from Craft As-
sociates on Madison street, Wilkes-
Barre. To the credit of this con-
cern it should be said that they
made such adjustments that Larry
could work there. The City cut
down the curb of the Hummell
place and black-topped the drive-
way free of charge eo that Larry
could wheel his rented chair across
the street to work.
Larry suffered another injury
when bumped by a truck door. This
sent him back to General Hospital
where he was fitted to a body and
leg brace. What Larry needed now
was expert therapy which on his
reduced income he could not afford.
Luzerne (County’s new Home was
now ‘opening in January 1962 with
all facilities for rehabilitation. Larry
was 47 when admitted in May 25,
1962 to Valley Crest Home.
When the chaplain visited Larry
he found a man low in spirit, all
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Cub Pack Gives Awards
At Blue And Gold Dinner
Cub Pack 233 held its Annual Blue
and Gold Dinner Tuesday evening
at ‘Shavertown Methodist Church.
Seven dens and a webloes den
were represented. The theme, “Go,
Go, Go, Round-Up” carried out its
decorative scheme with miniature
rockets of gold and blue.
Invocation was given by Rev.
Robert Yost. Scoutmaster Joseph
Precone made the awards, assisted
by William Fredericks, assistant
Scout Master.
Brief remarks were given by Rob-
ert Evans, Scout Headquarters;
Scout Masters John Butler and Mal-
cohl Kitchen. Guest of honor was
William Precone. Benediction was
by Rev. Frederick Eidam.
Receiving one year pins were
Charles Waite, Thomas Kreidler,
Pau] Dymond, John Thier; two year
pins, David Merithew, Robert Brown;
three year pin, Brian Wadas.
Den Chief Cords went to Edward |
Friar, Loren Dymond, Vincent Ro-
man, Albert Williams; Robert Glenn,
Jeffrey Gillis; Denners Stripe to
Paul Detweiler;: Assistant Denners
Stripe to James Groblewski.
Winning awards were: John Har-
owitz, Bear Badge, Lion Book, .2
Silver Arrows; James Brown, Wolfe
Badge, Bear Book, 3 Silver and 1
Gold Arrow; James Roman, Lion
Badge, Bear Book, 2 Silver and 1
Gold Arrow; |Robert Youngblood, 2
Silver and 11 Gold Arrow; William
Youngblood, Gold and Silver Arrow;
John Porter, Wolfe Badge, Bear
Book, Gold Arrow; Robert Merithew,
Bear Badge, Lion Book; Thomas Mc-
Cabe, Bobcat Badge, Wolfe Book;
Brian Wadas, Lion Badge.
David Wood, Gold Arrow; Jeffrey
Gillis, Bear Badge, Lion Book; Larry
Spaciano, Gold, Silver Arrow; Thom-
as Kreidler, Wolfe Badge, Lion Book,
Gold, Silver Arrow; Paul Dymond,
Silver Arrow, Lion Book; Warren
Boyes, Bear Badge, Gold Arrow;
Kenneth Covert, Bear Badge, Lion
Book, Gold. Arrow; James Gosart,
Gold Arrow; John Thier, Silver
Arrow; Joseph Precone, Bear Book,
Wolfe Badge; Michael Precone, Lion
Badge, Gold and Silver Arrow.
William Connors, Bobcat Badge,
Wolfe Book: Donald Voelker, Silver
Arrow; Wiliam Fredericks, Bear
Badge, Lion Book; James Broblew-
ski, Bobcat Badge, Wolfe Book; Mark
Groblewski, Bobcat Badge, Wolfe
Book; Donald Innes, Bobcat Badge,
Wolfe Book.
Dinner was served by Auxiliary
ladies, Mrs. William Fredericks, Mrs.
George Shaver, Mrs. Joseph Young-
blood, Mrs. Warren Boyes.
Den Mothers are Mrs. Vincent
Roman, Mrs. David Lohman, Mrs.
William Flack, Mrs. Thomas Kreid-
ler, Mrs. Allen Covert, Mrs. Robert
Voeker, Mrs. Danie Detweiler. Frank
Wadas has the Webloes Den.
Next meeting will be held March 4.
Community Building
(Continued from 1—A)
group feel essential?
_ With a reminder that concerted
effort could work miracles, and that
individual construction plans would
result in a rash of small buildings,
Mrs. Ambrose closed the meeting.
Everybody present was interested
enough to take the proposition
back to individual organizations:
Mrs. Lutes, Mrs. Howard Hontz,
Mrs. Daniel Meeker, Eastern Star; |
Paul Rodda, Institute of Architects;
Eleanor Rodda, PTA Council; Fran
Brown, Lehman Woman's Club;
: Ruth G. Demmy, Dallas Women of
Rotary; Richard O. Myers and Russ-
ell A. DeRemer, Dallas Lions; Jam-
es Alexander, Jack Landis, Dallas
Rotary; William C. Cutten, Back Mt. |
YMCA; Richard E. Staub, American
Legion, Post 672; Mrs. Richard
Staub and Mrs. Else Boehme, Am-
erican Legion Auxiliary; Dr. School-
ey, Back Mountain Protective As-
sociation; Mrs. William Wright, Mrs.
George McCutcheon, Dallas Women
of Kiwanis; Mrs. Welton Farrar,
Dallag Junior High School PTA;
Merrill Faegenburg, Dallas Kiwanis;
Mrs. Ambrose, Mrs. Howard Wiley,
Mrs. Fred Eck, Dallas Senior Wo-
man’s Club; Mrs. David Alderson,
Mrs. Joseph Borton, Dallas Junior
Woman's Club; Beverly Bergstresser,
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks.
but beaten by misfortunes. Almost
every move was pain, Muscles did
not want to be disturbed, nor bones
to be reminded they were to sup-
port a body. When met in the halls
Larry with a wry grin said: “I'm
on my way to the torture cham-
ber!” But as his treatments helped,
his spirits rose. His room drew oth-
ers who needed the laughs and
jokes as a part of therapy, the ex-
pression of an uncrushable spirit.
To his chaplain he made request
to receive communion whenever it
was being given.
Now Larry could be found along
the corridors, in the front lobby
socializing with all who came by,
or in the general purpose auditor-
ium with the rhythm band where
he learned to play the marimba.
This music therapy is more fun
than walking stiffly between bars,
or pulling weights, or lying on a
table being stretched. His right leg
is % inch ghort. Yes, Larry can
stand on his feet, walk between
parallel bars, but he looks ahead
till he can get along without that
heavy brace.
Now Larry has a new project.
Along with another wheel chair
patient, Mildred “Parent, Larry is
co-editor of the Valley Crest News.
The office staff gives full assistance
to the mimeographing of this artis-
tic monthly publication. Other ac-
complishments are certain to en-
gage Larry's eager and versatile
personality. Meanwhile he remains
a full-time morale booster around
‘the Valley Crest Home.
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From—
By
Mrs. Matt Evans was annoyed
new fur cap in the trash barrel.
She laid her hand on the cap,
warm for a subzero morning. An
The cap reared up on its hind
a baleful eye.
a tense moment. ~
The largest opossum Mos. Eva
self over the rim of the barrel in
crusted snow.
furled a velvet pinion, tucked it b.
open water.
Things should stay put.
speed.
Seeing a fur cap materialize
mashed turnips when you are set
considering the weather up to thi
the amiable animal gave us a break
cooperative groundhog ? rel
Early yellow croci have been
the barrel to retrieve the Christmas present, “is the freezing limit.”
a fur cap, everybody should have one, she reflected. i
The cap and Mrs. Evans stared each other down for
The whole thing set Mrs. Evans back on 'her heels.
as astonishing as the yellow Persian kitten that suddenly spread
wide yellow wings and flitted off into the shrubbery; or the mouse
hanging upside down on the white bricks of the fireplace that un-
Now, bring on that spring weather.
to give out with an abortive chirp a couple of days ago, and who
knows what February could bring forth, aided and abetted by a
Pillar Te Post...
Hix
when she spotted her daughter’s
“This,” she fumed, reaching into
rand. the cap felt warm, much too
astonishing amount of warmth in
legs and regarded Mrs. Evans with
ns had ever seen then hoisted it-
slow motion, dragging its tail be-
hind it, and making a rustling sound as it inched itself off over the
It was just
ack again in position, and settled
down for another nap; or the small Mallard duck which left its tail
feathers in a zealous grasp and went staggering off, describing dizzy
swoops and dips in the air as it headed erratically for the nearest
Nobody should have to rearrange thoughts with such frantic
a pink-tipped pointed snout and
a prehensile tail, or a kitten sprout, wings, or a mouse turn into a
bat, is just as upsetting to the morale as swallowing a forkful of
for mashed potatoes.
Turnips are excellent in their proper place, but they need mental
preparation and adjustment before they can be throughly enjoyed.
One thing that did stay put this year, and to good advantage,
s point, was the groundhog.
Nice of him to remain in his burrow, during that foul Saturday.
The Founding Fathers of Punxsutawney, arrayed in tall silk hats,
may have booted their local product out into the open for a look
at Pennsylvania weather at its most disagreeable; but hereabouts,
where the groundhog does not constitute a career, come February 2,
by remaining cozily underground.
An. early bird was heard
known to croak February 26.
Idetown Fire Auxiliary
To Sell Vegetable Soup
Jonathan R. Davis iFre Company
Auxiliary laid plans Monday evening
for a home-made vegetable soup
sale to ‘take place next Tuesday at
the Fire House in Idetown, starting
at 4 p. m. Patrons are asked to
bring quart containers. If neces-
sary, delivery may be arranged
through Mrs. George Carpenter, Mrs.
Lee Bicking, Mrs. Clifford Davis, Mrs.
Louis Lanin, Jr., or Mrs. Charles
Casterline. i
Clitford Ide R
Clifford Ide, Par
cently retired after being emp!
with the Ockonite 24 years.
Ide first began working for the co:
pany in 1939, when it was located
in Wilkes-Barre. Six years ago the
Ockonite was transferred to New
Brunswick, N. J., and Mr. Ide was
transferred also and has been work-=
ing there up until the present time.
Mr. Ide and his wife have a son,
Dean, of Dallas.
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