~ SECTION A — PAGE 2 ' THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 FE ETT EET EEF 0 Fw or SEE ER ORE SR ET SFE NEE Tr WN ree RE » de oa a a aa Eh EE nai I— 7 i ¥ i ORT “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now In Its 73rd Year” : A non-partisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Ine. year; $2.50 six months. six months. held for more than 30 days. to be placed on mailing lst. Transient rates 80. Monday 5 P.M. at 85¢ per column inch. Batered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. 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, 15¢. 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Advertising deadline ‘Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged Classified rates 5c per word. Minimum if charged $1.15. 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 — 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; Beaumont — Stone’s Grocery. La who shoplift as a lark. for the property of others? years.) f or shoplifting. down the aisles? onto the floor? regard for ownership. cannot be overestimated. good working condition. if necessary. with nothing in his mouth. - A RE ® Mrs, Rachel Porter, member of $Dallas School faculty will retire at | "the close of the present school term e after thirty three years of service, Mtwenty six at Shavertown Grade School. # Mrs. Porter will be honored at the Spring Dinner of the Pennsyl- wania State Education Association %of Dallas Area at Irem Temple Country Club Saturday evening. ® A graduate of Kingston High «School and Bloomsburg Normal School, Mrs. Porter taught at “Kingston Borough prior to her itenure in the Back Mountain area. During the intervening years she itook advanced work at Wilkes «College. > Active in a number of organiza- tions, Mrs. Porter has been especial- Jy interested in youth work. » Assisted by Mrs, Russell Houser, Mrs. Porter organized the Football Mothers Club serving as its first hairman. During her term of of- " fice the group raised funds with the «help of Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis "Clubs to buy the players and sec- ‘ond team jackets. Keep right on frustrating Jimmie. ‘Editorially Speaking: Hands Off, Jimmie The mounting incidence of petty thievery is making headlines in periodicals and newspaper editorials. Shop- lifting is becoming a commonplace. . There is much beating of breasts about “teen-agers” Okay, where does it start, this complete disregard Does it start with the teenagers? It does NOT start with the teenagers. body better invent another name for boys and girls who are beyond the stage of being children, not quite mature enough for adults, and are therefore considered to be liv- ing in a never-never land where they can’t be spanked, and where they are immune to all the responsibilities which will hit them like 4 load of bricks in a few short (And some- All right, it does not start with teenagers. You young mothers, face up to it; you are responsible When you take little Jimmie into a grocery store, do you keep him with you as you trundle your cart up and Or do you let him roam the store, picking up any- thing that appeals to him, sampling the candies, poking his fingers into the cookies, knocking the cereal boxes It’s natural for him to experiment? Of course it’s natural for him to experiment, but civilization is not built on a foundation of being natural. It is built on a foundation of NOT being natural, but of conforming to accepted social behavior. A primitive savage will grab what he sees, with no You are rearing a solid citizen, not a savage. How Jimmie acts on his first visit to the grocery will shape his entire future approach to grocery stores. The importance of getting off on the right foot simply Teach him to keep his hands off, look but not touch. Once he finds that he can pick up something which does not belong to him, he is on the road to petty thievery. And don’t worry too much about the dangers of his being frustrated. Life is full of frustrations. It wouldn't be safe to walk down the street or drive a car or step outdoors at night if frustrations were not in With a_paddle, ; See that he goes out through the turnstile with noth- ing that does not belong to him in his pants pocket, and It is not fair to Jimmie to let him get away with it. Fellow Educators Will Honor ‘Veteran Teacher At Dinner » pa In 1933, she served as a member of the committee which organized the first PTA in Kingston Township. She was a charter member of the Kingston Township Band Associa- tion and recalls ringing doorbells for donations to purchase material for capes and hats in which to dress band members. Her record in Girl Scouting has been an outstanding one, culminat- ing in the award of a thirty five year pin by the Wilkes-Barre Coun. cil. She had previously received a Thank You Badge. Mrs. Porter organized the first girl scout troops in Shavertown, Trucksville, Fernbrook and Lehman and ithe Dallas District Council, serving as its first chairman. - For ten summers she served as Director and Supervisor of Work Camps in Connecticut, recruiting 250 boys and girls and staff members for five camps each year. In her spare time she gained recognition among church groups and organizations as a director of religious dramas, minstrel shows, Tom Thumb weddings and plays. Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post It Happened 30 Years Ago Dallas Township School Board approved an eight mill decrease and Kingston Township a two mill cut in school taxes. First National Bank of Dallas re- ported a large amount of gold cer- tificates and coins turned in for re- demption following President Roose- velt’s order. Fire destroyed a stable and store- room at the Monastery of the Congregation of Jesus at Harvey's Lake. Sunday’s traffic was heaviest during the year in this area. Members of Kingston and Dallas Townships and Dallas Borough met at the Old Orchard Packing Com- pany to discuss matters of common interest. ‘Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Steph- en Lord, Sweet Valley, celebrated ‘50th wedding anniversary. Died: Winifred Griffith, 46, Dallas. It Happened 20 Years Ago William Hillard Conyngham, 74, owner ' of Hillside amd Orchard Farms, died after a brief illness. Grant Thomas was reported a prisoner of the Japs. Thelma Gregory enlisted in the Marine Corps. ; Servicemen heard from: Lloyd Garinger, Joseph Hudak, Glenn Kitchen, Emory Kitchen, James Murphy, Alfred Roman, W. E. Ray, Ray Schultz, Walter Pilger, Bill Mc- , Intyre, Harold Casterline, George London, John Culp, Jr., Howard Johns, Louis Kelly, Edward Hart- man, Tom . Cadwalader, Wilford Montross, ; Marriages: . Elnor Smith, Jack- son, to Sgt. Alfred Swelgin, Jack- son; Marjorie Mekeel, Trucksville, to Paul Walter, New Brittain, Conn.; Ethel DeReemer, Fernbrook, to Nor- man Frantz, Alderson. Died: Luther Dymond, 72, Dy- mond Hollow; Edward Swartwood, Huntsville. Anniversaries: Fred Boote, Trucksville, celebrated his 87th birthday. kk Happened I0 Years Ago Ground was broken for the new $210,000 Ross Elementary School. Dallas Township operated speed trap for first time. The advantages of jointure and what it had meant to Kingston Township and Dallas Borough was disclosed at a dinner meeting of directors and school officials at Westmoreland High School cafete- ria. Three generations of Ecks were present at St. Paul's Father and Son Dinner: John Eck, grandfather, Fred Eck, father, and Jack Eck, son. Two Icelanders, Joe Magnusson and Geir Gudnason, visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, observed that Dallas area was cold- er than their native land. Parents were ordered to pay van- dal damage inflicted by their chil- dren on Church Street. : Dallas-Franklin and Lake-Noxen School directors met at Lake High School to discuss problems of their respective school districts. Marriages: Louise Kunkle, Kun- kle, to Goodwin Hilburt, Beaumont. Anniversaries: Mr. and Mrs. Ar- thur Ehret, Lehman, celebrated their 40th wedding anmiversary. George Pollock, Carverton, celebrat- ed his 86th birthday. Died: Mrs. Euphamia Lutes, 81, Beaumont. Answer Omitted L. L. Richardson, running for Dallas school director answered five questions in last week’s question- naire to candidates. The answer to his reason for feel- ing qualified, accidently deleted, was: “Because of my business back- ground. A good businessman is needed on the Board. Educational problems should be left to Dr. Robert Mellman.” Mrs. Porter is a member of Shav- ertown Methodist Church, its Offi~ cial Board, and the Executive Board of the WSCS. She is Promotion Chairman of the WSGS and presi- dent of the Keller Class. A member of the NEA and PSEA, she is also affiliated with Shaver- town PTA, No. 90 Order of Eastern Star, Black Diamond Post .395 American Legion Auxiliary, Back Mountain Career Woman, and Girl Scout Troop Committee. The wife of Martin Porter, presi- dent of Kingston Township Ambu- lance Association, Mrs. Porter's proudest achievement has been the rearing of her four children John, Shavertown, who is a salesman for Westinghouse; Mildred, industrial nurse for the National Three A’s in Washington, D. C.; Mary, wife of Dr. Carl T. Evans, Homestead, Florida; and William, who died at age 12 in 1946. She has five grandchildren: John- nie, Pamela and Sally Porter, Shav- ertown Mary and Thomas Evans, Florida. Not only has she taught hundreds of children from the Back Mountain area but each of her own and more recently grandson Johnnie, reported | junder Truman, the longest period speeches, ‘at every opportunity, It a THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 2,1963 RR RE RN NR HEH CH NEE HEH HHH HHH RH RAR RRKY Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters CHK HHH NHRHNEKRK THE SECRET DIARY OF HAR- OLD L. ICKES (1933-36). 738 pp. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc. Price missing. This is one of those very heavy thick books ‘that stand around for years awaiting a fortunate combina- tion of time and ambition to get started to read them, but turn out to be well worth the effort, and make you regret that reading did not start sooner. Quotation from the book is not permitted. The Diary was really secret. formation contained would have raised a furor if openly stated at the time. It is now an even thirty years since the first stirring days of THE NEW DEAL. This book refreshes the memory. Born and reared in Pennsylvania of Republican ancestry, Ickes later became a lawyer in Illinois. He supported various independent camn- didates and was an active member of the Bull Moose movement in 1912. Due to a deaf ear he served in the YMCA in France in World War I. He kept up relations with all the leading surviving Progres- sives including Hiram Johnson, George W. Norris, Gerald P. Nye, all in Congress in the period covered, also Gifford Pinchot, then Governor of Pennsylvania, amd many others, whose names appear frequently throughout the book. He vigorously supported Roose- velt in 1932 and after election asked two men to intercede for a job for him. It turned out that both the men were offered the job of Secre- tary of the Interior and turned it down, but neither was asked for suggestions and could not recom- mend him. Later after others also had refused, Roosevelt offered him the post which he held all through Roosevelt's lifetime and for a while in history. Only a few years before his department had been rocked with the Teapot Dome and other scandals. He succeeded in maintain=- ing a reputation for integrity in an atmosphere in which it appeared to be the exception, rather than the rule. Much of the in- "ey Throughout the book he felt he was under attack from various’ sources, and was jealous of his posi- | tiom, prerogatives, responsibilities, i and reputation. Admitting that he never made a really effective speech in his life before, he made a lot of was his practice to have his staff work up the necessary facts and figures and other information, them he did a lot of work whipping the speeches into shape. He was exas- perated one time when Stanley High tried to take credit for a speech, which Ickes had only shown him, and which was his own werk. By his own definition he came to be called” “The Old Curmudgeon”, in the sense of a.churlish person. Ickes confirms many things about Washington in those days, some commonly known and some suspect- ed. It was almost unbearably hot much of the time. All the govern- ment officials and many lower level employes were almost swamped by the round of dinmers, receptions, 3 A HNN ENS complains almost all the time of feeling under par, due mostly to the outside ‘activities. His sleep was unsatisfactory. Almost every night he had to ‘take ‘‘soporifics’, one of which was whiskey. And he realized most of the time that he was under nervous tension. Drinking was com- mon everywhere at all levels, After a party at his own house, Ickes re- marks that the President carried his liquor well. He must have had five highballs after dinner and did mot it. And Miss LeHand and race Tully did not show any effects either. A subordinate placed in his de- partment for political purposes is plainly described as not worth a damn for his proper duties. The pulling and hauling for spending privileges between agencies is fully described. He was in charge of PWA, a big-works program in which sponsors had to pay part of the cost, and was in constant fighting with WPA, a fully federal spending agency pouring out money like wa- ter. In his own department and under PWA, many things worried him, and he felt they could not be defended if known. A subsistence homestead project at Reedsville, W. Va., ‘got out of hand, the places costing sev- eral times what they should have. He frankly lays this ‘to interference by Mrs. Roosevelt. A hotel costing $120,000 in the Virgin Islands which he later visited was found to have parquet in the rooms, and no hot water supply. He was able finally to soft pedal the Passamaquoddy power project and the Florida ship canal, both of which incited much opposition and which he personally did not favor. By direct orders of the President, which he did not dare to admit at the time, he put pressure on Mayor LaGuardia of New York to fire Robert Moses, whom he did not even know per- sonally, but had been described as an unpleasant person who was tre- mendously efficient. Many times he felt dissatisfied with his relations with the Presi- dent, and once resigned in writing. Rather early he found that he could not depend upon what had been promised him, and after a while he so records, saying that he had for a long time hated to admit it to him- self. He records his likes and dis- likes with amazing frankness, at one time or another mentioning almost all the figures in public life. He felt that the papers were against the administration and himself and cul- tivated many of the leading owners and. reporters. In the 1936 campaign he led an attack against William Randolph Hearst which took the heat off many things: which would probably have defeated Roosevelt if known. An intimate of the President told Ickes that Roosevelt would never have been president if it had not been for his affliction. Previously he had been a playboy. During his long illness he began to read deeply and study public questions, becom- ing one of the best informed men in the country. This is an informative and inter- etc., always going on so that heesting book. Cub Scouts Clean Up Shaver Cemetery Den Mothers of Pack No. 233 of Shavertown met on Monday after- noon with Cub Master, Joseph Pre- cone and Mrs. Dan Shaver at the Shaver [Cemetery on Overbrook Avenue to complete plans to clean up the cemetery for Decoration Day and to observe “Clean and Spruce Up Week.” Plans for- all cubg and dads to meet on Saturday, May 11 at 10 am. until 1:00 p.m. were made. Dads are to bring saws and clip- pers to cut the dead timber from © % Represents Shrine Mrs. Arnold Yeust, Shavertown, will leave Saturday morning from Avoca Airport to attend the Su- preme Session of the Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem in New Orleans. Representing Calvary Shrine 20 of which she is Worthy High' Priestess, she will spend a week in New Orleans. the trees. rakes. The pack will hold its monthly meeting on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. in St. Paul’s Church. The cubs are to bring SUBSCRIBE TO THE POST WV COM a SEE = SAVE BACK MOUNTAIN / Main Highway — ~ LUMBER & COAL CO. Shavertown 674-1441 Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott METS CATCHING ON I was in New York Saturday in time to witness a striking phenom- enon which is of interest to red- blooded Americans everywhere. The sour old city has fallen in love with the Mets. (The Mets, if for some reason you don’t know, is a new baseball team in the Na- tional League. It is beginning its second season although some. New Yorkers don’t count last year as a season.) New York's most powerful sta- tion adopted the team after theyttt tion (watt-wise), WABC, promptly adopted the team after they won two games in a row, and was busy over weekend bally-hooing the up- coming game against the Pirates. The Mets lost a close one there. : A small forum of pundits tried to figure just what it was with the Mets that was taking New York. Their record to date was neutral at best, although 100 per cent better than last year. Of the two “New York” teams of yore, the Yankees were (and are) accepted as a fact of life, and the Giants relatively’ ignored. Then one of the pundits men- tioned Brooklyn Dodgers, and it was evident he had uttered a truth. New York missed them after they went to California. The Mets, recovering from their own bumbling, are the town’s new little bad boy of baseball, some- times up, sometimes down, but al- ways interesting. . The man in the street in Man- hattan, trudging home from a hard day’s work, customarily stops at the corer for a beer, and can usually drum up a conversation by asking “How did the 's do today 7?” _ With only the Yankees, that be- came a moot question, and until this year, it looked as though the Mets would be just as moot. MISTAKENLY TAKEN Last week's speculation on the locality of Dallas’ new post office was meant to concern itself with | that subject solely. The side reference to Shavertown post office. was meant only as a translation by me of am extreme viewpoint held by some, and to which, as Issaid, I did not agree. The article was certainly never meant as a diatribe against a per- son, organization, or municipality, and I was shocked to learn that it was thought so by a few people. I had no intention of any refer- ence to Superintendent of Mails Richard Griffith, a fine and devoted public servant, whom I met for the first time only last weekend. As most people are aware, post- office authorities in Shavertown were not at liberty to take any ac- tion when the U. S. postoffice de- partment decided to make Shaver- town a branch of Wilkes-Barre. The move was consummated after the + cost more. . . . Safety BUSINESS MANAGER NEEDED All this beating about the bush in the selection of candidates for school directors ignores the three most important questions a candi- date should be compelled to an- swer, viz: 1. Will he cultivate a tough hide and demonstrate an ability to say “No”? And if there is any doubt of the necessity of an expenditure, will the candidate always say “No” until ‘fully convinced that the ex- penditure is justified, and not in- dulge in log rolling, “If you do this for me, I'll do that for you”. 2. Will the candidate insist that a fully qualified busimess manager, at an adequate salary, be appointed to look after financial matters, the same as any ordinary corporation would do spending a million and a quarter dollars a year with obliga- tions for many millions more? = At present the whole responsibility rests with the Associate Superin- tendent. The Secretary, formerly an executive officer of the school board, is simply a figurehead and bookkeeper, 3. Will the candidate insist that the present plan of am appointed hand-picked auditor, even though he be a C.P.A. be discontinued forthwith and auditors’ elected re- sponsible to the people, who will make an honest effort to uncover amy extravagances or irregularities, which a hand-picked auditor will never do? He cannot bite the hand that feeds him. In earlier days a craftsman or small manufacturer took pride in| using the best materials and having work performed with the best tools by the best workmen, creating a superior product, which Since the NEW DEAL DAYS a converse theory has been in vogue, “It it costs more it is better, and the more it costs the better it is. This is the way our schools are planned today. An of- ficial stated publicly that our local feasibility, some of which was pur- portedly based on public opinion. FUMBLED RUMBLE An stremgth and skill between several high-school factions, slated to reach gang-fight proportions, was badly attended Friday might. According to the high-school grapevines, car-loads from West Side and Kingston were going to land in the bowling alley parking lot, whereupon Dallas area boys would sit quietly in their own cars and wait for the invaders to start something. The night was COLD and the moon was yeller, and there was darned little place to park, because Friday might’s a big bowling night. State and local police cruised quietly through the lot at regular intervals, So did two or three car- loads of kids, but they never stopped. impromptu exercise of| __DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Valve . . . taxes are ‘painfully low”. The air is full of charges that we are not spending enough, our average being so much less than this or that. It is time to get away from this. We should spend what we have to, to maintain good schools. It is not necessary to worry about keeping up with the Joneses. We have a lot of frills already, such as teach- housewife to drive when ing a there are already half a dozen drivers in ‘the same family, and others who have no car available to drive. ; And above all, the expenditure should not be controlled by one man, recorded by his secretary, and audited by a hand-picked auditor. D. A. Waters ABOUT TROLLEY CARS Dear Myra: 2 : In reading the Post today I noticed that Mrs. Newman wanted to know when the last trolley went to Harveys Lake. I suppose by this time a number of people have sent information but they may not know that the library has “The Trolley Car Treasury’ among the memory books. In ‘that is a picture of the last Dallas trolley in 1940 which literally ram over a car on its last trip. There is nothing in the text but just. the caption under the pic- ture. I don’t suppose it is neces- sary to send the information all the way across the U.S. when there must be plenty of people who. re- member but they might not know about that picture. z Best wishes always Miriam Lathrop Editor’s Note: Here's your an- swer, Mrs, Newman, and clear from Sun City, Arizona. The Library has a picture. 3 Dallas Senior Chorus To Present Concert Dallas Senior High School Chorus will present its annual spring con- cert in the high school auditorium Thursday evening, May 2 at 8 o'clock. The fifth and sixth grade chorus of Dallas Elementary schools will also participate. Several violin selections by a group of students will be featured. The group has recently started stringed instruction under the di- rection of Lorraine Rowe, College Misericordia. Meeting Held The Back Mountain Police Aux- iliary, held its monthly meeting at the Lehman Fire Hall, Thursday, April 25. Edward Gdosky, district game protector, showed a film on wild life. The firemen will hold their annual dance at the Jackson Fire Hall, May 17 at 8 p.m. The auxiliary will assist with Mrs. Mi- chael Traver, head of the commit- tee. Music will be furnished by the Sharps Trio with Red Jones, caller. 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