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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
Now In Its 13rd Year”
A non-partisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub-
lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant,
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. ‘
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that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or ay affair
for raising money will appear in a specific issue. ~
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Single copies at a rate of 10c can be obtained every Thursday
morning at the following newstands: 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 Cairng 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.
Editorially Speaking:
A Vanishing Breed? Sez Who?!
People in the larger cities, sadly lacking in grass-
roots knowledge, deplore the passing of the old fashioned
general practitioner and of the rural editor.
To this, we make the simple statement, Bushwah!
. Folks in the Back Mountain may rest secure in the
knowledge that they have general practitioners, plenty
of them, and also a newspaper that is rolling right along
in spite of many tribulations during the past year . . .
a newspaper that carries news of the community, the
small but extremely important happenings which do not
make front page news in the New York papers, but are
of vital interest to our residents.
‘Judging by the cars which the general practitioners
are running, the profession is flourishing.
And judging by the ads which The Dallas Post is
carrying, the rural newspaper which carries tidings of
life and death, and marriages and birth, is also feeling
no pain.
This is a good community. It deserves good doctors
and a good newspaper, and it has both.
But in case you don’t have the lowdown on rural
newspapers and their value to a community, tune in next
Tuesday evening at 10:30 to Channel 16, and hear about
a grass-roots newspaper down in Kentucky, when the
McLean County News and its editor Landon Wills sit
- for their portrait on “A Vanishing Breed.”
(Who says it’s vanishing?) |
A Great Crusade Begins
By Mgrs. FREDERICK W. ANDERSON
April is with us again. Harbinger of new life and
promise, it serves a dual purpose.
: For as all nature swings into a lovely growing season
and its sunlit days signal death to winter, so we, too, must
labor that 88,000 among us may not die.
We are in the opening days of a great Crusade and
from every street in every borough and township, an
army is massing its forces.
The banner it follows indeed bears the symbol of a
mighty sword but in this war it is a weapon of mercy and
not of destruction.
Its soldiers are unskilled in the techniques of battle
but throughout its ranks there are none more dedicated
to a cause.
So that others might live, free of the great scourge,
they march. And their foe is Cancer!
‘Why do they march?
In hope that an additional 4700 children may not
fall victim again this year; that 250,000 mothers will not
have died in vain; that 300,000 fathers torn from their
needed families will not have made the supreme sacrifice.
The foe creeps insidiously among us, respecting no
one. Rich and poor, young and old, white or black,
Christian or Jew, it claims with unrelenting i invasion, one
every two minutes.
The American Cancer Society needs your support.
By research, education and service it can conquer.
Open
your doors and your hearts to its volunteers.
Rural Republicans To
Meet At Hunlock's
Chairman of the Fourth Legisla-
tive District, James Cooke will pre-
side at a joint meeting of the Re-
publican Women of Hunlock Creek
and the Rural Republican Club
Tuesday, April 23 at 8 p.m. at the
Fire Hall Hunlock Creek.
Co-chairmen are Mrs. Edgar Sor-
ber, Mrs. Florence Cragle, and Wil-
liam Goss; on the refreshment com-
mittee are Mesdames Frances Sut-
ton, Florence Cragle, Ronnie Sutton,
Doris Roberts, Erma Zika, Beatrice
Hummel, and Ida Roberts.
The Rural Republican Club com-
prises these areas: Lake, Ross,
Union, Hunlock, Fairmount, Hunt-
ington, Conyngham, Salem, Lehman,
and Slocum Townships, and Shick-
shinny and New Columbus Boroughs.
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Have It Done By The Post
Whittaker Member
Of Pershing Rifles
Cadet Corporal William A. Whit.
taker, sophomore at Pennsylvania
Military College at Chester, is now
a fully accredited member of the
famous Pershing Rifle Drill Team,
according to word received at
Easter time by his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Alton Whittaker, Church
Street.
Bill, a 1960 Dallas High School
graduate, said here on his spring
vacation, that one of the thrills of
a lifetime was taking part in the
drill team meet at Champagne,
Illinois, March 8 and 9, where the
Pershing Rifle Drill Team took top
National Honors.
The first American artillery shot
of World War,I was fired Oct. 23,
1917, by Battery C of the 6th Field
Artillery,
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
Ft Happened
30 Years Ago
Back Mountain teams were all set
to open the baseball season of the
Bi-County League.
Large sums collected in land re-
turns by county commissioners were
I not being claimed by local commu-
nities.
Robert Laux needed twenty su-
tures to close the wound in his arm
suffered when a truck sideswiped
the vehicle in which Bob and his
father were riding near Birch Grove.
Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis Club
scheduled a large card party to
raise funds for their Underprivi-
ledged Children’s Fund. The organ-
ization paid for tonsil operations on
39 children last year.
' Young people in Dallas were com-
| pleting plans for a tennis court to
be erected on Lehman Avenue be-
tween Anderson and McCarty prop-
‘erties. © @&
Early pletion of local folk ap-
peared in this issue loaned by Wyo-
ming Valley Motor Club, a Dallas
Post customer.
John Hanson, general manager,
Harvey's Lake Picnic Ground, was
planning new improvements to the
recreation park.
Superior chicks, blood tested,
were selling for eight and nine cents
a chick.
Marriage: Martha Oney, Trucks-
ville, was married to Fabian O’dell,
Shavertown.
"Deaths: Purcell Johnston, 67,
Shavertown; S a mu el Griffith, 76,
Dallas; Emma Major, 55, Lehman;
Phyllis Benscoter, 16, Muhlenburg;
John Sheridan, 76, Dallas; Charles
| Randall, Loyalville; Hattie Wilcox,
60, Huntsville.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Gold Star parents unveiled a
beautiful Honor Roll in Trucksville.
OPA officials investigated black
market sale of gasoline ration cou-
pons in Back Mountain area.
Clean Up Week. was proclaimed
in Dallas beginning April 26.
Dallas Township began collection
of 235,000 pounds of scrap for the
war effort.
‘A picture taken in Iran and sent
to the Dallas Post revealed the loca-
tion of James Harris, Alderson,
stationed with the Armed Services
‘Weddings: Marian Remley, Shav-
ertown, to Marsellus Hubschmitt.
A lovely doe amused local young-
asters when she swam for an hour in
Harvey's Lake, slowly sauntering
through the yard of Frank Jackson
before reentering the woodlands.
Bobby Snyder's pup was the 7th
dog in the Back Mountain area to
enter the K-9 corps.
Died: Doris Pealer, Sweet Valley;
John Sutton, Beaumont; Mrs. Olive
Scot, Lehman; Mrs. Anna Sutton,
Beaumont.
It Happened
i0 Years Ago
Little Guy Zerfoss, Shavertown,
wag seriously injured by a hit and
run driver, near his home.
Infant Cindy Haddle, Kunkle, was
saved from suffocation by Jason
Kunkle and Fred Dodson using new
resuscitator mask of Harry E. Smith
Fire Company.
Shavertown Fire Company pon-
dered dilemma of worn out fire
truck.
James and Kenneth
dropped the Hudson car agency.
Herbert A. Ward assumed man-
agership of the Dallas Acme.
Roger Paget, Yeager Avenue,
Dallas, was awarded Wyoming Sem-
to Europe.
‘Weddings: Grace Marie Laux,
Shavertown, to Robert Gardiner,
Trucksville.
Died: Harbert Hill, Shavertown,
well known Back Mountain florist
and civic leader, died in General
Hospital following a stroke suffered
several days previously. Mr. Hill
was working among his beloved
plants and flowers shortly before he
was stricken.
Granville Sowden, Jr., 23, Wes-
leyan graduate, died at his home
following several months illness.
Mrs. Calista Dymond, 73, Chase.
Embulance First Aid
Course In Session
First Aid classes for ambulance
crew-men began Monday night at
the borough building, William
Wright instructing.
Those in attendance received
manuals if they wanted to buy
them, and heard Bill Wright speak
briefly on the aims and goals of
first aid instruction.
Standard and advanced first-aid
will be taught during the sixteen
hours of course, at the end of which
members will be tested for qualifi-
cation.
Those registering were: Robert
Besecker, Gilbert Morris, John
Carey, Hayden Richards, L. R.
Scott, James Davies, Leslie Tins-
ley, Don Shaffer, Leonard Harvey,
William Wright, Charles Young-
blood, Robert Block, and Charles
Flack.
Meetings are at 7 Monday nights,
excepting the fourth Monday of
every month when the class will
[moet at 6:88,
- | drug store at Alderson.
Oliver
inary ‘Scholarship, a six week trip:
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
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Dr. James Rowley Lewis, first
physician back of the mountain, is]
said to have located in the wilder-
ness in the Carverton area in 1831.
In 1833, he purchased a homestead
in 'Trucksville where he practiced
over half a century, being the oldest
practicing « physician - in Luzerne
County at the time of his death
Nov. 2, 1883. He was about 29 years
old when he settled in Trucksville
and his first wife died the same
year, possibly before he came here.
His second wife was Mary Ferguson,
daughter of Alexander Ferguson of
Dallas. Their children, most of whom
lived to very old age, were: Thomas
H. B., Jeanette, Margaret, James M.,
Esther, Sylvia Jane, and Mary.
Small-pox was a dreaded disease in
Dr. Lewis’ time. Levi, Hunt of Dallas
died of it in 1828-29, caught while
on a rafting trip down the river to
Baltimore, said to be the first death
from ‘that disease in Dallas Town-
ship. Jacob Miers also caught it on
a similar trip and died not long
afterward.
. A Doctor John Smith served as a
viewer in 1831 when Monroe Town-
ship was cut off from Northmore-
land and Dallas and other parts of
adjoining townships. This was prob-
ably the Doctor John Smith of
Wyoming, a grandson of one of the
original Susquehanna Company pro-
prietors, who was active in politics.
He started in Wyoming in 1815.
The first doctor in Dallas Town-
ship is said to have been Doctor
Thomas Henry Nutt. He was so
assessed in 1844, the year after
Franklin Township was cut off. The
next was Doctor Isaac Whipple, who
came to Dallas about 1844-45. For
generations, up ‘to fairly recent
years, Dallas was known as a two-
doctor town. There were other doc-
tors scattered around in the smaller
villages, a few miles apart, in the
horse and buggy days, but usually
only one in a place. In earlier days
doctors learned to practice by train-
ing with a practicing doctor, like
lawyers learned law in the office of
a lawyer.
One such doctor was Doctor Da-
vid M. Silkworth (1820-1890) who
came to Monroe Township area in
1862. To him is credited the name,
“Beaumont,” meaning, in French,
“beautiful mountains.” After prac-
ticing in several other states, he
came here during the Civil War and
shortly thereafter served with the
53rd Pennsylvania Volunteers as a
physician, After the war he returned
and resumed practice, also keeping
a drug store and post office.
Much later, Doctor Lorenzo Byron
Avery, kept a general store end
He was
trained as a physician but practffed
very little. He was commonly called
“Doc” Avery and was a very well
read and popular man at the Lake.
He wrote prose and poetry and was
a regular contributor to THE DAL-
LAS POST for many years.
One of the early professionally
trained doctors, well known all over |
the area, was Doctor Joel Jackson
Rogers of Huntsville. He was of a
pioneer family, in the country, and
in the Valley. The pioneer from
England was Joseph Rogers, whose
son, Hope, was the father of Josiah
(1720-1815), who came to the Val-
ley in 1776. He fled after the Mas-
sacre, his first wife dying in the
Wilderness less than a week after
the battle. After the war he re-
turned to the Valley and was the
father of Jonah and grandfather of
Rev. Joel Rogers, a Baptist preacher
and teacher, Rev. Joel Rogers had
three wives and five children, in-
cluding Doctor Joel.
Doctor Joel Jackson Rogers
(1818-1902) . was trained in New
York City. He came to Lehman in
1846 and moved to Huntsville in
1847. He lived in the white house,
first on the right leaving Huntsville
toward Dallas, overlooking the
gorge, said to have been built by
Burr Baldwin in 1831. He extensive-
ly remodeled it on his marriage to
Sarah Caroline Rice, daughter of
Rev. Jacob Rice and his wife, Sarah
Cook, Mayflower descendant, of
Trucksville. Since Doctor Rogers
and wife were both children of
preachers, they were highly regard-
ed as members of Huntsville Meth-
odist Church for over half a century.
There were community leaders in
other respects, such as debating
classes, and similar activities of the
time.
My father grew up at Huntsville
with the children of Doctor Rogers,
and I knew personally several of
them and also his grandchildren,
one of whom, Alfred Rogers, still
lives at Huntsville. Doctor Rogers
was the first of four generations of
doctors. His son, Doctor Lewis Le-
onidas Rogers, was located in the
first block of Wyoming Avenue,
Kingston. His grandson, Doctor
L. L. Rogers, Jr. practiced in
Wilkes-Barre as does his great
grandson, Doctor L. L. Rogers, 3rd.
This started out to be a survey of
all the older doctors in the area
and the surface is barely touched.
There were several doctors in the
Lehman area and also in the gener-
al Centremoreland-Franklin Town-
ship area, as well as in Dallas,
Trucksville and Shavertown.
We may have space for the late
well known and highly respected
Doctor Sherman Schooley (1899-
1952) who was cut down in the
prime of life at 53 by a heart at-
tack. He was our own family phy-
sician at the time. Doctor Schooley
came of a family in the country
over three hundred years, pioneers
in this ‘area. He was not of the
horse and buggy days, but worked
just as hard as the doctors did then,
always cheerful and efficient at any
time of the day or night.
This will be continued.
Dallas Township Pioneers Spend Day
Clearing Tract, Never Find It Again
The following items of interest
concerning the origin of Dallas
Township were gleaned from the
early “History of Luzerne County”
found recently by Joseph Chisko,
Dallas.
DALLAS TOWNSHIP
Dallas Township was formed from
Kingston in 1827 and embraces a
portion of one of the certified town-
ships called Bedford.
It was named in honor of Alexan-
der J. Dallas of Philadelphia.
The first log house was erected on
the present site of Dallas Borough
in 1797 by Ephraim McCoy, a Rev-
olutionary soldier. A small log cabin
had been previously erected which
was supposed to have been a hunt-
er's abode, Constructed without
floors it showed evidence of stand-
ing for several years.
The second residence was built
soon after by William Briggs.
Daniel Spencer, John Wort and
John Kelley, Revolutionary soldiers,
Elam Spencer, J. Mears, John and
John Honeywell, Jr., William Hon-
eywell, Isaac Montanye, and the
two Ayers brothers were among the
first settlers.
In 1808, William Honeywell came |
from New Jersey and bought 500
acres of land. On it he completed a
log house which had been partly
built. A year later, he built a frame
addition which was ‘the first frame
dwelling in Dallas. The carpenter
work was done by R. M. Duffy.
[The first saw mill was erected by
Judge Baldwin on a branch of
Toby’s Creek in 1813, the second by
Christian Rice in 1818, which was in
use "until 1875.
Almond Goss built and conducted
the first store about 1840. Charles
Harris and his father made the first
clearing. They came from an ad-
joining section, found a desirable
tract, chopped one day and returned
home. They were never able to
find the place again.
The first school house was erect-
ed in Dallas (now Dallas Borough)
in 1816 of hewn logs by William
Honeywell, Philip Shaver, William
Hunt and John Honeywell. Site was
given by Shaver.
In 1848, Edgar Marsh built the
first tannery. It burned and a new
one was built by John Lawler, who
manufactured large quantities of
leather,
Peter Roushey operated the first
tavern situated at the forks of the
village and sold grog. Jacob Miers
and Miles C. Orr also opened like
establishments,
Henry Hagaman was the first post
rider, © carrying the mail from
Wilkes-Barre to Bowman's Creek. J.
Wesley Kunkle became the first
postmaster at the Kunkle Post Of-
fice, Sanford Morse the postmaster
at Ketchum postal quarters. The
latter branch was named in honor °
of W. W. Ketchum,
Congress.
Peter Ryman opened offices as
the first pettifogger and was ex-
tremely successful. Thomas Irwin
was first justice of the peace.
The first painted house was
owned by Jacob Rice, the first
spring buggy also ‘was acquired by
him. Abram Honeywell was the
proud owner of the first cast iron
plow and William Honeywell, the
first patent wagon brake.
Farming and lumbering were the
chief occupations in the district,
much of the land being cleared and
cultivated. The area is twenty-one
square miles.
Among the pioneer preachers
were Marmaduke Pierce and Ben-
jamin Bidlack, the latter a Revolu-
tionary soldier. Services were held
in the rude residences until the
schools were built.
No account of the early office
holders is available nor that of early
member of
township meetings, all records hav-
ing been destroyed.
| Noxen Fund Drive
Still Needs Boost
Chairman of Noxen Ambulance
Fund drive Dave Fritz extends
thanks to committee members who
have given whole-heartedly of their
time and energy, and asks anyone
in the area not called on to come
forward and help.
Every year a certain portion of
the fund is set aside for the pur-
chase, some day, of a new ambu-
lance. This year the committee
hopes, with the aid of those who
may still come forth, to double that
amount set aside over last year.
Committee members are: Roger
Opdahl, A. E. Ruff, Alan Kitchen,
Ed Condon, Elmer Race, Arlie Har-
vey, Spencer Holmgren, and Oscar
Fish. To date they have collected
$950.45, and last year’s campaign
brought in $1015.05.
Anyone who has not yet con-
tributed can give whatever he likes
to Dave Fritz.
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Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
LAKE BUSINESSMEN
At least one Harveys Lake busi-
ness-owner is getting more and more
put out every fishing season.
Perennially, the opening of season
denotes a brand new year to those
who have just held their own, stay-
| ing open through the hard, unprofit-
able winter.
Now, and for the last several
years, push-cart and hot-dog truck
peddlers have invaded the area, set-
tling down right next to the water.
Nobody's going to walk for a
sandwich on opening day if they
can get one without pulling out their
line, even if the nearer sandwich
doesn’t taste like much.
Now a lot of fishermen will go to
the established businesses only to
use the rest-rooms. Even the ped-
dlers use them.
What the business-owners need
is a stiffer transient merchants
license, especially with seasonal as-
pect of business at the Lake.
Problem is, as one supervisor sees
is that signs warning peddlers must
be put at every road into the town-
ship, and this would run many
hundreds of dollars.
WE DIDN'T SAY THAT
I was rather amazed last week to
note an interesting twist given to
our little story about the sale of
Noxen tannery.
More amazed, probably, are exec-
utives at Armour Leather in Wil-
liamsport, who by this time must
have set up barbed wire and Bren
guns in front of their offices in order
to hold off indignant reporters
righteously demanding to know who
bought it.
It’s no trick for a paper or a radio
station to borrow another's mate-
rial, and, in fact, it is reciprocally
practiced all the time, with the help
of “rewrite men”.
I'll never forget the time we wrote
about a quiet pastor’s wife modest-
ly going about some man-sized con-
struction chores for the good of her
husband’s flock, and we’commented
“Who says the pioneer spirit is dead
in America?”
The next day I was delighted to
find elsewhere that she had been
quoted as ‘asserting ‘The pioneer
spirit is dead in America’.
Well, this time everybody (and
you all know your names), decided
to emphasize the tail-end of our
story to wit: “Word from Wil-
liamsport has it that official decla-
ration can not be expected until
next week at the earliest.”
‘We had phoned the company,
stated ‘the nature of the call, and
were told that no one could even
talk to us on that subject until next
week. - Hence the “at the earliest”
part.
Deducing that. a little outfit like
the Post wouldn't waste money |
phoning Williamsport, the others, I
guess, figured the “word from Wil-
liamsport has it” part to mean that
the foremen had been sent back to
Noxen by the plant manager with a
sealed promise on the part of the|
company to declare their purpose
this week.
We didn’t say that.
DANCES (RESUME
Tt was gratifying to see attend-
ance so good at the teenage dance
Monday night at the Legion Post
Home. The dance had stopped for
Lent.
From here on, the event will be
held, as before the season, Saturday
nights.
We wanted to do our part to
help these dances by giving them
publicity for the opener Monday,
and had set the story in type, ready
to go. It was then that the occasional
and unforeseeable space problem
arose, and we had to do some fast
cutting of material.
Actually, the note about the dance
should "have been given priority,
since the upcoming event was the
following week. But in the mad last-
minute dash to throw some news in |
the path of wildly vegetating Easter
advertising, it must have gotten
overlooked.
Community Concert To
Close List April 27
Membership in the 1963-1964
Community Concert series will be
closed Saturday, April 27. Admis-
sion is by membership card only.
The campaign is now going on, Mrs. |
John Bennett of Kingston is chair-
man. :
Four top concert attractions are
scheduled, with Robert Merrill,
opera baritone, heading the list.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
directed by Maestro William Stein-
berg, returns after an absence of
two years.
Completing - the season will be
Lorin Hollander, young American
pianist, and the Schola Cantorum
of New York City. Many residents
saw on TV the iSchola Cantorum
on the program at the gala open-
ing in New York’s Lincoln Center,
when it was directed by Leonard
Bernstein.
Moved To Valley Crest
Mrs. Emma Gensel, 90, was mov.
ed from Mercy Hospital to Valley
Crest Tuesday by Dallag Ambulance.
Mrs. Gensel, who lives with her
daughter, Miss Catherine Gensel,
211 Hellers Grove, Trucksville,
fractured her hip election day and
‘has been a medical patient at
Mercy Hospital since. Manning the
ambulance were William Kreischer,
Kingston Township and Bob Be-
| sacker, Dallas.
From—
: DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
By Hix
Joe Hoeg dropped around Easter evening to discuss this and
that before returning to University of Maryland ‘after the spring
vacation, and the talk turned on the lost submarine. ‘Joe has been
doing some boning up on stresses and strains in metals, the changes
that take place when a welding job is done, not in the weld itself, but
in the surrounding metals.
Almost at once I was far over my head in technicalities, but bits
and pieces came back from a childhood spent in boundless admiration
for a surgeon father who could do everything just a little better than
anybody else could do it, and who held that surgery was simply ap-
_ plied mechanics,
Watching Papa fashion a special surgical instrument, one de-
signed for a specific job, I learned quite a bit by indirection about
metals. Papa explained that it was the rate of cooling that did the
trick, that if you wanted a soft result you cooled it slowly, and if
you wanted a good hard brittle job you plunged it sizzling into cold
water, and the larger the job the more difficult it was to control
the cooling temperature.
Papa hammered delicately, shaping his instrument on the anvil,
and plunged it into the tub of water. Then he hammered out the
other piece, and when he assembled the thing, it was a rib-cutter
with a particularly vicious snap to its jaws, in a baby size, just
exactly right for the very small baby he was intending to use it on,
a far smaller model than could be purchased at that time.
After the operation was successfully performed, Papa sent the
rib-cutter to be plated. There wasn’t time to do anything in ad-
vance except fashion the life-saving bit of metal. It probably looked
odd, sterilized with all the shiny clamps and scissors scalpels but
it did the trick.
Joe listened with interest, and then he returned to the sub-
marine. If it could be snared at the end of a towing cable, he
thought, it could be jockeyed up to the Continental Shelf into shal-
low water and examined more minutely than would be possible while
resting deep on the ocean floor.
“Nobody would ever sell me a bill of goods on signing up for
submarine duty,” I ventured. “You'd be caught like a rat in a trap
if anything went wrong.”
“Now Mrs. Hicks, don’t give me that stuff, you'd be the first to
go down, and you're not fooling me a bit.”
A horrid memory reared its head. It was in the harbor at
Annapolis at least a hundred years ago. There was the submarine,
fresh from the Spanish American War, one of the first models; lying
at anchor off the Naval Academy, its oily surface lapped by small
waves. And there was my great-aunt Delphine, gathering her volu-
minous skirts about her, and shaking her white curls, insisting upon
climbing down the hatchway. It wasn’t a conning tower in those
days, just a small blister on the cigar-shaped surface.
Aunt Delphine could always be depended upon to make a diver-
sion. On this occasion, she was restrained from boarding the sub-
marine by a scandalized officer who clearly considered that elderly
women should remain in the kitchen, doing whatever it is that elder-
ly women do in kitchens.
I was terribly disappointed. I had planned to slip aboard the
submarine in Aunt Delphine’s wake, after she had successfully nego-
tiated the narrow ladder, but it was not to be.
And since that date, my enthusiasm for submarine has suffered
a steady process of attrition. I could say with perfect truth Sunday
night, and mean it, “No, Joe, you'll never get me on a submarine,
go pack up your persuasive powers and get out of here, you have
to go back to college tomorrow and bone up some more on metals.
Who knows, maybe you'll be able to spot what was wrong, with that
welding job.”
And off Joe galloped, the best yard boy I ever had, and a boy
the Back Mountain will beproud of some day. Joe is going Places,
a ‘fine “advertisement for what Dallas schools can do.
Guard The Arbrutus
As housing developments spread farther and farther
afield, and woodland hills are shorn of their trees, the
region is in grave danger of losing one of its treasures.
Year after year the trailing arbutus, is disappearing,
and when it goes, it never returns. Tt is impossible to
transplant successfully. It resents interference.
Children are not the only ones who tear it up by the
roots heedlessly. “Well, it’s GROWING there, isn’t it,
and it isn’t doing anybody any good, why shouldn’ t1take
it home?’ protests the picknicker with her hands full of
the fragile pink blossoms.
She crams the beautiful fragrance and the shell-pink
loveliness into a vase, and two days later all that is left of
the trailing arbutus is a smallbunch of dry twigs. Throw
it out. It was pretty while it lasted, wasn’t it? T
Once, passenger pigeons darkened the sky. Un-
counted millions were trapped for food. The supply was
endless. There would always be passenger pigeons.
Came a spring when the flocks were not so large.
Another spring when the flocks were perceptibly smaller.
A spring when there were no passenger pigeons, and an-
other spring when a substantial reward was offered for
just one pair of passenger pigeons.
The reward is still offered, but nobody has ever col=
lected it. Hopeful bird lovers have responded, but the
passenger pigeon is now extinct.
Here in these hills we have a heritage for future gen-
erations.: If you know where there is trailing arbutus,
guard the secret from careless hands. If you pluck arbutus,
pluck only a little, and take it with a sharp snip of the
scissors, not tearing it up by the roots. Its woody roots
extend under the surface. Disturb the roots, even by a
gentle pull, and that portion will die.
New System Will
Ease Detour Travel
Mrs. Newman Needs
Early Pix Of Area
ways this summer will no longer
have trouble with “Detour Signs,”
thanks to the ingenuity of George
Bennett, traffic engineer in the De-
partment,
Detour signs will be replaced by
new markers, announcing “Road
Closed—Follow Red Arrows.” An-
other sign above the announcement
will show a sample arrow.
Red arrows will then point out
the motorist’s route, indicating
whether he should turn right or left.
Two will often be used to make sure
a turn is not missed.
The end of each detour will be
marked “End Detour.”
Robert J. Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Phillips,
Burndale Road, announce the birth
of a seven pound, four ounce baby | +t
boy, Robert John Jr., their first
child. or
Mrs. Phillips is the former Pa-
tricia Ann Wybersky of Wyoming.
Every contributor to CARE’S
Food Crusade gets a receipt that|
shows the countiies whose people
will be helped.
Motorists touring the State High- |
Mrs. Arthur Newman, who is
collecting material for a scrapbook
for the Library Auction, would ap-
preciate pictures, preferably of the
early days of the century, showing
the lumber industry at Stull. She
needs pictures of the open street-
cars which used to serve Harveys
Lake, and of the Lake steamboats.
Does anybody in this area know
when the last streetcar ran to the
Lake? Who was the motorman?
Anybody who has a retired
street-car man in the family is
asked to get in touch with Mrs.
Newman.
With the new highway about to
change the face of the Back Moun-
tain even more drastically than
changes in the past, it is important
to preserve the history of the re-
gion.
Things which do not seem of his-
torical significance now, may wells
prove of great value in the future.
64 Donors At Linear
Tuesday's Bloodmobile collection”
at Linear saw 64 candidates offer-
ing their blood to keep their or
ganization eligible for transfusion
through the Blood Bank program, -