SECTION A —PAGE 2 —THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 “More Than A Newspaper, Now In Its A Community Institution 3rd Year” A non-partisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant; Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. M2 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations < Nl » Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Naz Membér National Editorial Association Sunt Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. year; $2.50 six months. six months. Subcription rates: $4.00 a No subscriptions accepted for less than Out-of-State subscriptions; $4.50 a year; $3.00 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu- scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self-addressed, stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 30 days. When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked to give their old as well as new address. Allow two weeks for change to be placed on mailing list. of address or new subscription « The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local hospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it. Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a specific issue. Preference will in all intances be given to editorial matter which has not previously appeared in other publications. National display advertising rates 84c per column inch, Transient rates 80. Political advertising $.85, $1.10, $1.25 per inch Preferred position additional 10¢ per inch. Advertising deadline Monday 5 P.M. Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. Classified rates 5¢ per word. Minimum if charged $1.15. Single copies at a rate of 10c can be obtained every Thursday morning at the following mnewstands: Dallas — Bert's Drug Store, Colonial = Restaurant, Daring’s Market, Gosart's Market, Towne House Restaurant; Shavertown — Evans Drug Store, Hall's Drug Store; Trucksville Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy; Idetown — Cave’s Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store Kocher’s Store; Sweet Valley — Adams Grocery; Lehman—Stolarick’s Store; Noxen — Scouten’s Store; Shawaneses — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern- brook — Bogdon’s Store, Bunney’s Store, Orchard Farm Restaur- ant; Luzerne — Novak's Confectionary. MNoxen Barber Is Cutting Hair [ Oclogenarins barber George, Fritz, Noto gives a hair-cut % one of his best customers and best friend Willian McKenna. * McKenna has, at 65, a good says he is responsible. where’s your hair?” [Bnd Quoting Poetry At Age 82 head of hair, for which George McKenna says: “If you're such a good barber, George celebrated his eighty-second birthday Saturday. * * , In his pocket heé carries a five- dollar gold piece minted five years after he was. He doesn’t read as much as he used to, and he doesn’t | play checkers much now that his great grandson is away studying. But it doesn’t matter, because he’d just as soon do exactly what he’s doing now --cut hair and talk to you for as long as you like. ER LE mm EEE And four generations living un- der the same roof in Noxen helped George Fritz celebrate his 82nd birthday Saturday. Customers still come from as far away as Demunds and Huntsville for 4 hair-cut, even though George don’t push his business too hard. “I don’t want to tell you I'm not slowing down’ he winks, “because wou wouldn't believe me if I did”. Then, assuming his favorite or- atorical stance, one foot slightly be- hind ‘the other, a hand outstretched, he'll tell you about the days right after the last war when he had as many as 54 customers in his one- man shop in a single day. “Didn’t feel any more tired after that day than if I'd just got up”, he says. He also likes to quiz people on the chronology of presidents of the Un- ited States, since he has always been interested in American history. But he throws up his hands when he thinks about William Phillips of Beaumont, 88, who dropped in for a hair-cut the week before last. Mr. Phillips, says George dolefully, can name every president's wife's first name. He decided to take up barbering in 1925, and went to school in Phil- adelphia to learn the trade. Before then, like many of his neighbors in Noxen now, he worked at a tannery until it folded. The tannery was in Jamison City, Columbia County, not far from the Sullivan County line, and George put in twenty-two years at work there, much of which time he was in charge of the “scrub-house”. He married Lily Roberts, of Ben- ton Township, and they had three children, Bertelle, Philadélphia, Guy, Noxen, and Alton, mow deceased. Mrs. Fritz died in September of 1951. - After four weeks at Tri-City Bar- ber School, George went to work * cuts were twenty cents and shaves ten cents. “Then”, he smiles sar- donically ‘I thought I was a barber’. April of that year he bought a shop in Picture Rocks, Lycoming County, and went to work. He re- ceived thirty-five and fifty cents re- spectively. Mrs. Fritz was having recurrent ill health, so in 1944 the family mov- ed to Guy's home in Noxen. George set up shop in what used to be part of Dr. Clarence Boston’s office, ad- jacent to what is now the postoffice. His daughter-in-law, Cleona Fritz, is postmaster, and grandson David is clerk there. Dave's nephew Nick lives there, and commutes to school at Wyoming Valley Technical Insti- tute. A brother, Bruce, lives in Pine Grove, Sehuylkill County, and a sis- ter, Flora Henderson, still gives music lessons in Indiana, Pennsylvania. George is justifiably proud of his relationship to Dr. Frank Laubach, world-famous missionary, teacher, and writer, whose column is carried in the Benton Argus, on many papers. It is said of Dr. Loioch in Life magazine that he has taught 60 million people to read. The educator is said to know 168 different langu- ages and dialects in forty eight coun- tries. He and George had the same great-grandmother. At 82 George is not only working, but energetic. There's nothing he'd rather do than to talk to old friends in his shop and on Market Street. When he talked to the Dallas Post, his appearance was a combination of dignity and youth, a neat blue suit and brown suede loafers. He loves people, and likes to quote a poem to the effect that the great- est business a man can apply him- self to is making friends. Asked what he likes most about Noxen, he repeated several times quietly: ‘There are a lot of good people here”. Noxenm Grass Fire Noxen Fire Company extinguish- ed a grass fire on the tannery grounds behind the railroad tracks at 1:15 Sunday afternoon, using booster lines’ and 200 gallons of at a second-class barber shop. Hair- walter. ny Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post It Happened 30 Years Ago Dallas Township taxpayers urged prompt action on enormous delin- quent tax problem. Noxen was designated as a site for reforestration camp under Pres- ident Roosevelt's plan. State Emergency Relief Board of- fered Dallas Borough aid in its extensive road repair program by ‘| supplying men for labor and paying them with food orders. Rev. Frank Hartsock, Dallas Meth- odist Church, retired from the Wyo- ming Conference this week. Great interest was evidenced in the coming elections with Dallas Bor- ough’s School Director vacancies holding the limelight. Mentioned as possible candidates were: Stanley Davies, Peter Clark, Clifford Space, Theodore Dix, John Jeter, Corey Gordon, Stanley Eu- gene Fisk, Harry Pittman. The engagement of Oce Beryl, Edwardsville, was announced to Wil- liam T. Austin. Mr. Austin was su- pervising principal of Monroe Town- ship Schools. Spring was upon us with lawn mowers selling for $3.95, lawn rakes at 29 cents. Store fires were still necessary to combat chilly evenings, and pea coal was a bargain at $6.50 per ton, buckwheat at $4.50 and nut at $7.50, delivered. Everyone was advised to renovize, improving all properties and putting idle men to work. Died: Corey Neely, 56, Beaumont. It Happened 20 Years Ago Dallas, Shavertown, Lake and Trucksville Fire Companies were highly praised for saving Sweet Val- ley from destruction when a raging fire threatened to wipe out the town. Four structures burned to the ground and a warehouse housing 3,000 chicks was destroyed when flames spread from a brooder stove. Properties were owned by Alfred Bronsen, Herbert Britt and George Wesley. Clarence Thomas, Kingston, Hart- er Dairy driver, died from injuries suffered when his truck was hit by D L & W train in Forty-Fort. A new chicken and turkey dress- ing plant opened in Shavertown, known as North Star Farms. Helen Koslofsky, Harvey's Lake soprano, scored a huge success in her recent appearance at Carnegie Hall. Freas Blaine, formerly of Moore- town, was instantly killed when struck by an automobile in Nanti- coke. Noxen dedicated its new honor roll erected by local tannery workers in memory of its eighty young men and women, who served in armed forces. , Servicemen heard from: Francis Mead, Thomas Templin, Howard Rice, Harold Mayer, Eugene Fogle, Willard Garey, Arja Brown, Stephen Hayes, Joseph Wallo, W. E. DeRem- er, Joseph Maculis, William Ocken- house, Arthur Dunn, Elwood Ken- shaw, Dick Williams, Howard Carey, William Swartwood, Arthur Kem- merer. Married: Norma Knecht to Hiram Clark, Kearney, N. J. Alex Wilson celebrated his 86th birthday at Demunds, Mrs. Margaret Long, Monroe Township, her 87th anniversary. Died: Mrs. Ellaura Edwards, 74, Sweet Valley; Hiram Taylor, 82, Carverton; Lawrence Swartwood, 64, Sutton Creek; Joseph Balavage, 70, Loyalville; James Brooke, 96, Glen- burn, N. D., formerly of Meeker. It Happened 10 Years Ago Evaluation of Dallas Borough— Kingston Township Schools was scheduled for next month, Harris- burg approved plan of School Board President, Frederick Anderson and Supervising Principal, James Martin to assay progress, map out further jointure progress and compare local school system to that recommended by the state. Martin Pollock, R. D. 1, Dallas, lost his job savings when his home burnt to the ground. Harry S. Smith Fire Company was unable to save structure, already well ablaze when fire was discovered. Floyd Chamberlain resigned from Dallas Township School Board, serv- ing only one and a half years of his fecond term as director. Joseph Polacky, postmaster of Dallas, was receiving bids for a vehicle to be used in the delivery of parcel post and mail collections. Huntsville Christian and Trucks- ville Methodist Church Leagues were scheduled to decide league champi- onship. Marriages: Beryl Colwell, Dallas, to Sheldon Fahringer, Shavertown; Dorothy A. Edwards, Johnson City, to Donald Serfoss, Carverton; Ann Harris Jennings, Dallas, to Dean Paul Pierson; Ruth Zimmerman, Harvey's Lake, to James Patton, Jr., Noxen. Deaths: Dan Davenport, 76, Sweet Valley, rural mail carrier for many years; Charles Moore, 74, Dallas; Leroy Garinger, 70, Idetown; Walter DeWees, 55, Dallas, died while vaca- tioning in Florida; Alvah Evans, 73, Carverton. The Dallas Post ‘Does Full Color (OFFSET PRINTING THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1963 The Lord Is Risen Indeed Wide-eyed with the magic of Eas- and Mrs. Glenn Stroh, they were ter, Judy and Karen Stroh stand |selected by James Koemchak for his before the altar Methodist Church. Daughters of Mr. at Shavertown | annual Easter offering to the people of the Back Mountain, a painstaking CORO rctire of ie things | which make the Day of Resurrection | a living, breathing factor in the hearts of Christians everywhere. PHOTO BY KOZEMCHAK Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters Getting something for nothing, as practiced by robbers and thieves, was formerly soundly condemned by almost everyone. Now that there has been a breakdown of standards and such crimes are increasing, there is less vigor in the condemnation, and even otherwise respectable peo- ple are given to shoplifting and similar small plans for getting some- thing for nothing, although they may frown at such activities in general. But if you take away the terms rob- bery and theft, and dress up the same plans with such words as em- bezzlement, fraud, conversion, and others hereinafter named, getting something for nothing is condoned, frequently encouraged, and some- times actually applauded. Games of chance are not a scheme to get something for absolutely noth- ing. The idea is to make a small payment and get much more in return. Most of these are illegal, especially the mechanical ones, but no one seems to worry about them, and, it is hard to avoid the books of chances and other such items pre- sented all the time. Another form is to buy estates in Arizona, Florida, or other distant places, sight unseen. It never pays off. The railroads have publicized a term “featherbedding” to describe paid employes doing no work at all, or very little work, or work which serves no useful purpose and could be eliminated. After over forty years on the railroad, I am of the opinion there is far more featherbedding in various other occupations, and lack of occupation, than there is on the railroads. In government jobs this is conspicuous when we have the wife of a congressman drawing about a thousand dollars a month and liv- ing in Puerto Rico while Congress is in session. There are plenty of other such cases, and in the state govern- ment many jobs are filled part time while those paid pursue their regu- lar occupations. Even in the county the courthouse offices are partly filled with empty chairs. Many expect to get something for nothing in prizes and discounts. Although one TV quiz show was proved to be rigged, most of them are legitimate, but ‘the prizes are paid for by someone, somewhere, usually, charged off to advertising in the regular expenses of the sponsors. ‘A craze just now is trading stamps, but the givers buy the stamps and include the expense in their regular markup of prices. The welfare state idea has created a lot of people getting something for nothing. Recently a man, acting as agent to rent a house, told me about a call he received from a prospective tenant, accompanied by his wife and five children with another soon ex- pected. During the conversation, he asked the man what kind of work he did. Said the man, “Work! = I haven't worked since 1957. We are drawing $97 every two weeks and getting along all right. Why should I work ?” (maybe it was every week). Another case related to me recent- ly covered a small employer, expect- ing a seasonable rush, who met a handy man and asked him if he wanted to work for a few weeks or months. He asked the rate and was told the minimum was $1.40 per hours, working 40 hours per week. Said the man, ‘That makes $56 per week. I draw $50 unemploy- ment. Why should I work a week for $67” While I have belonged to unions for forty years, sometimes two, I am not blind to the fact that union agreements require and get a lot of “something for nothing.” The recent newspaper, strikes in New York and elsewhere point this up. One of the issues was a fourth week of vacation after a single year of service. I do not get four weeks after forty years of service. A paid vacation is a good thing, but four weeks after one year of service involves a lot of something for nothing. Other unions are now proposing thirteen weeks, and some every seventh year off Dr. Aaron 88 Main Street, Dallas 674-4506 DALLAS HOURS: Tues. — Wed. 2 to 8 pm, Friday 2 to 5 p.m. Optometrist Other days in Shopping Center S. Lisses Professional Suite Gateway Shopping Center Edwardsville BU 7-9735 GATEWAY CENTER HOURS: Daily 9:80 to 5:30 p.m. Evenings: Thurs. & Fri. to 8 p.m, ECCT TE Ea Graphic Arts Services INCORPORATED PHOTO-ENGRAVING Offset Negatives Screen Prints, Art Work Phone VA 95-2978 CHIE I and Platemaking HALE STE CTC RS EVESEA Rear 29 North Main Street i Wilkes-Barre, Pa. - AEE CHES, RE EEO with full pay. Another issue in the newspaper field, not new, is “bogus.” Many of | the advertisements we see are not | set in type as the paper is preparing | to print. Many are furnished in the! form of a mat. And sometimes an afternoon or Sunday paper will pro- cure an entire advertisement or other item which has appeared in a morning paper or vice versa. Some- times this greatly expedites an early closing up of the paper. For decades the printers have had an agreement that such advertisements, etec., must again be set up by the papers’ own printers, even if that issue of the paper was sold a long time ago. The publishers, in at least some places, refused to employ additional men for such useless work and told the men to cave it until they had time to do it. In some places there were great stacks of this “bogus” work waiting for someone to reproduce it in type and then tear it down again. The New York newspaper strike was unreasonably prolonged by the fact that the printers, who had pre- viously averaged about $145 tax- able income per week, were receiv- ing about $70 per week in taxable benefits from their union plus about $50 per week in tax-free unemploy- ment insurance, or a total of about $120 per week. This was more than some of the working printers had after paying 4% assessment to the strike fund. Considering that the unemployment insurance is financed by the employers, this is a prime example of something for nothing. From dire necessity our forefathers worked hard. Work was therefore elevated to the standing of a virtue. Laziness was next to a sin, not to be encouraged. The pendulum appears to have swung completely across to the other side. If it is kept pushed over there, the clock may stop. SUBSCRIBE TO THE POST DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Editorially Speaking: Stretch Out Your Hand To all of us, a crippled child is peculiarly appealing, and perhaps more especially at Easter time, when all strong young things are stretching toward the sunshine, and the breath of life is everywhere around us. The child who must hobble painfully while others fly on winged feet; the child who is confined to a wheelchair, watching while others play baseball in the corner lot; the child who has been afflicted from birth with cerebral palsy, whose mind is alert, but whose body will not obey hig instructions. And perhaps most pathetic of all, the child with muscular dystrophy, whose wasted tissues have already passed the point of not return, whose only outlook AT THIS TIME is further wasting away and eventual death. AT THIS TIME is the point to remember. Much re- search has been done, and more research is being done constantly. Even ten years ago, the term “crippled child” brought inevitably to mind a child suffering from the after effects of polio . braces . . the iron lung . . > the painful atternpts to walk again under the guiding hand of the therapist. . the respirator ‘ the Polio has been conquered. There are young people still who are crippled by it, EVER contract polio. but no other children need Vaccines have taken care of that, All a mother has to do is to see that her child gets the vac- cine. Some day it will be required as a preliminary to entering school, just as smallpox vaccination is required today. All the protective shots will be wihpaed § in one pack- age, and for the public good, compliance with a law of health will be required. The drive for the Crippled Children Fund is officially You over at Easter time. packet of Easter seals. have already received your If you have not yet responded, do so now. The books will not be closed, and donations will keep straggling in all spring. Make it a thank offering that YOUR child can run and play with his schoolmates. Miss Frances Dorramce To Talk To Book Club Miss Frances Dorrance will give a talk on Godey’s Lady Book Monday ‘for members of the Book Club, bring- ing with her to Back Mountain Mem- | orial Library Annex at 2 p.m. several copies of the priceless publication. No member will want to miss this pro- gram. Guests are invited to enjoy Miss Dorrance’s presentation. The new librarian, Elizabeth Ry- der, will be introduced. Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins and Mrs. Walter Molychik head ‘the hostess committee. It is seldom possible for the Book Club to make arrangements to have Miss Dorrance speak, her time is so completely occupied with her many activities and engagements. If you are a member, mark the date on your calendar. If you are not a mem- ber, but are interested :in books, come on Monday and meet other people who are likewise interested. No formal invitation is necessary. Don’t wait to be asked to join the Book Club! It is not a closed cor- poration. Spring Concert The Sisters of Mercy Junior- Novice-Postulant Choristers will present their fourth annual Spring Concert in the Irem Temple in Wilkes-Barre, April 19, at two o'clock, and again at eight o'clock in the evening. The program is so arranged as to appeal to all. Theodore Newcombs Married Six Years Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Newcomb, School street, Shavertown, observed their sixth wedding anniversary April. 5th. The couple has three children, Louise Carol, four, Clar- ence, two, and Susan eleven months. Mr. and Mrs. Newcomb were mar- ried in the Dorranceton Methodist Church, Kingston, by Rev. Robert Webster. Mrs. Newcomb is the former Vivian Rosser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rosser, Kingston. - Mr. Newcomb is the son Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott FIREHALL WANTED Some Dallas firemen would like to see a firehall aside from the borough building. Chief complaint is that anyone can get in ‘the garage now, and tamper with equipment. FISHING SEASON Fishing season is drawing near, and Harveys Lake businessmen .are tidying and polishing for this annual inaugural. Ice disappeared complete- ly by April 4, as predicted in'Janu- ary by the old prophet of Warden Place, Jack Link. STRONG COMEBACK Nearby, Pete Ambrose has been making a terrific comeback, having watched his big Top Shelf cocktail Lounge burn half-way to the ground last fall. Nobody who has driven through Sunset lately could fail to notice that the place has been built back up to two stories, and plate-glass has been installed in three walls of the dawn. stairs. é Pete hopes to open May 30, ith a restaurant and a cocktail lounge | sharing the bottom floor, but, sadly) without rock 'n roll. LF TESTING THE STRETCHER Les Tinsley asked Pete Lange to occupy Dallas ambulance’s new hy- draulic stretcher while it was being cranked up from floor to chest height, to see if it was well built. Pete said: “Soon enough, I'll be i in the thing. No, thanks!’ : Les says dolefully: “How else am I going to know whether it's really built 2” WHO NEEDS GLASSES? Councilman Steve Hartman took | all his kids for an eye examination last week. Result: Their eyes were okay, but Dr. Lisses found Steve needed new glasses. : : of Theodore Newcomb, Huntsville. They are members of the Shaver- town Methodist Church. Mr. New- comb is employed with a cigar fac- tory in Kingston. : 1" | | | | ; | ; | | Saturday _ Thursday - Friday ~~ —- BIRTHDAY AT BIRTH S DALLAS £SSO CENTER April 11-12-13 * Ladies Mink Pens * Baby Chicks * Fly Swatters be ee ro FREE Given (on our Birthday) 400 Red Carnations For The First 400 Ladies Who Stop. Billfolds For The Men When You Trade With Us so sm i se: if A ® O » » ocd A ————
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