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—THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
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Now In Its
A Community Institution
3rd Year”
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Colonial = Restaurant,
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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.
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, 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.
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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
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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,
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Offset Negatives
Screen Prints, Art Work
Phone VA 95-2978
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HALE STE CTC RS EVESEA
Rear 29 North Main Street i Wilkes-Barre, Pa. -
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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.
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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. :
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* Baby Chicks
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Given
(on our Birthday)
400 Red Carnations For The
First 400 Ladies Who Stop.
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