SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 Mamber Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Entered ‘as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1879. No subscriptions accepted for less than year; $2.50 six months. six months, Out-of-State subscriptions; Subcription rates: $4.00 a $4.50 a year; $3.00 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Now’ In Its 73rd Year” A nen-partisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. We will not be responsible for the return of unsoliatied manu- ts, photographs and editorial matter unless self-addressed, - envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be held for more than 30 days. 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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 Trucksville Drug Store; Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy; Idetown — (Cave’s Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store Kocher’s Store; Sweet Valley — Adams Grocery; Lehman—Stolarick’s Store; Noxzen — 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. Editorially Speaking: It's Auction Time Tt’s Auction time. Get yourself three or four cartons, and fill them with things for the Odds and Ends booth. There are always white elephants around the house, tak- ing up space, asking to be dusted. You need a change of scenery and the Auction needs the odds and ends. It is astonishing how those small items, priced at fabulously low figures, do bring in the money. And the Antiques table is asking for small things that can be sold directly to customers without going over the auction block. Things like crocks with blue decora- tions on them, bits of china. Got some books for children? - The book booth needs plenty of picture books, things your own children have enjoyed, but outgrown. Know how to make good, cinnamon buns? home- baked bread? layer cake? sugar cookies? Bake up a batch and deliver fresh and hot, right to the baked goods booth next Thursday night, or Friday and Saturday. There never is enough home-made bread or cinnamon buns. Cupcakes are always popular. Ice some with white frosting and decorated faces for the kids. Enjoy the Lehman Horse-Show this week, and don’t miss the Library Auction next weekend. They’ re the summer events that you can 't afford to miss. : The smorgasbord is a new feature, replacing the customary barbecue designed to speed service and get you back to the Auction grounds in time for the first bid of the year at 7:30, on Thursday night. Smorgasbord is a one-evening only affair. the rest of the time. Eat at the refreshment booth Plenty of hot dogs and hamburgers, cold platters, hot coffee to take the chill off, along toward midnight. Lusty Giant (Conttuued trom Page 1 A) Bert Hill reinforced the outraged baa of the Herman Thomas lamb from his stance back of the loud- speaker. It was a sign of status in the community to be singled out to buy one of Bert's gardenia corsages. Howard ran his eye over the audi- ence and called the roll. Sometimes a thunderstorm put an end to the auction, and everybody took a raincheck. Howard was chairman of the tenth auction, when it rained cats and dogs on the opening day, and the refreshment stand did a land- office business in hot coffee while radio announcements alternated between hope and despair. Each year found the Library Auc- tion growing. Times changed. The Antiques committee, which had started out as- small potatoes, burgeoned into a tremendous organization, The New Goods Committee, just a dot on the horizon the first three or four years, skyrocketed. There was complaint about Mrs. Whozit’s potato salad, and Mrs. Whatsit certainly must have gotten her baked beans out of a can. The refreshment stand started to buy its food instead of having it con- tributed from home kitchens. The Auction went into high gear. There was no longer any time for horsing around on the auction block. Everything had to move fast, to earn its place on the stand. But you can still find a spool bed or a spinning wheel at the Library Auction, and the rural at- mosphere persists. It remains the most fun of any- thing in the Back Mountain, draw- ing the community together as nothing else has ever done, Sixteen years of library auctions, with another coming up July 11, 12, and 13. LEK KF FOR OF BACK MT. LIBRARY OUR BEST WISHES SUCCESS LEHMAN HORSE SHOW AND THE THE MEMORIAL AUCTION Main Street 1 1 i aN : | 1 ! 1 1 ht BUDDIES ame Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post It Happened .30 Years Ago Atty .and Mus. Peter Jurchak were off for Europe, where Mr. Jur- chak was to represent America at the unveiling of a monument in Czechoslovakia to the founder of the First Catholic Union. Construction of a new road be- tween Tunkhannock and Dallas was still up in the air. Scranton-based surveys indicated that many sharp curves would be eliminated, but no- body could say when work would likely start. Wyoming Valley Motor Club, Norman Johnstone spokes- man, stated that the route was an important shorcut; a direct link in the Washington. to Canada route. Residents protested. trolley fares, holding that Wilkes-Barre Transit would do more business if it would lower the price between and Dallas and central city. One way, by ticket, 20 cents. Dallas, Shavertowm and Trucks- ville were already talking in terms of a joint sewage system, for which Federal funds might be available. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Boston, sailing the “Good Ship Jolly Roger,” won the Fourth of July race at Lake Carey. John Hackling, 54, died at the home of his daughter Mrs. Guy Fritz in Noxen. Heavy traffic on the Fourth, but no accidents of any moment Heavy weekend storm damaged or felled many trees. Picture of a big black bear on North Mountain dressed up the front page. Shavertowm arranged to let home- owners work out their overdue taxes. Abundant spring rainfall insured a good berry crop. It Happened 20 Years Ago Lt. Kenneth Westover, former Dallas boy, was killed in the crash of a Flying Fortress in the State of Washington. He had won his wings in Texas two months earlier. Fire gutted two rooms at Laketon school. Cause was defective wiring. Frank B. Kaymor and Frank E. Matukitis headed the page as flyers from Dallas Township, having grad- uated from Gulf Coast Training Center. Rev. Harold Durkin was trams- ferred from St. Therese’s ‘to Strouds- burg. Father John J. O'Leary, retir- ed because of ill health, was re- called to the pastorate at St. There- se’s. Early morning dip at Harveys Lake netted a Kingston youth a broken head, when he struck the old steamboat pier. Peter D. Clark, Dallas, was nam- ed treasurer of Luzerne County. Heard from the Outpost: Len Hop- per, Shreveport; Durwood Splitt, North Africa; Arden: R. Evans, Louisiana; Herman Brislin, Arizona; Florence Rusiloski, Arkansas; Thel- ma Gregory, with the Marines; Grace Ide, Florida; Willis Ide, Nash- “ville; Paul J. Gallagher, Rockland; Bob Appleton, Indiana; Lewis W. Le. Grand, and Gilbert Huey, San Fran- cisco APO; Herb Updyke, Camp Ed- wards; Louis M. Kelly, Chapel Hill; Herbert Jomes, Boston; Donald Dav- is, Camp Crowder; Thomas Temp- lin, North Africa; Robert Misson, San Francisco. Dr. Robert Bodycomb headed Ro- tary Club. Married: Dorothy Ruth Warner to Norris Hendrickson. Lottie Frear to Ellis Meeker. Died: Mame Kitchen Rosengrant, Herveys Lake. It Happened I0 Years Ago Myron Baker was made general manager of Commonwealth. Dr. Richard Crompton, discharged from service with the Army, re- opened his office. Stanley Hemning was promoted to general foreman of the Buffalo plant of Bethlehem Steel. Larry Beth, 2, was doing well after being run over by his father’s car, standing in the driveway at Meadowecrest. Bad drought, sprinkling of lawns during daytime forbidden. Dallas Post-Office got first class rating July 1. Married: Carolyn Hoffman, to Carl H. DeWitt. Anniversary: Col. and Mrs. Dor- rance Reynolds, Golden Wedding. * Died: Mrs, Mary R. Scowell, 71, Meeker. Fanti’s Pond had its first drown- ing in 17 years. Dragging recovered the body of a 19 year old Luzerne boy, John Chisak. SUBSCRIBE TO THE POST | Glen, THE DALLAS POST, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1963 A EE RN EE RN A RR SN NN NN AN RNR Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters Never ‘did I see such a profusion of beautiful laurel as we had this year in the third week of June. It was nice almost everywhere, but there was a particularly fine stand of deep pink out along route 118 about ten miles west of Ricketts It stretched back through open woods as far as the eye could see, acres of it, on both sides of the road. Our legislators did all right thirty years ago when they adopted Kalmia latifolia as our state flower. Change, progress, and improve- ment can sometimes be exasperat- ing. We all know ‘the annoyance of flagmen, swinging booms, detours, narrow and rough pavement, dust and mud, and other items incident to road constsuction. We have leama- ed to live with them, and no doubt will have our patience sorely tried in ‘the next few months. But when, two days in succession, you drive half a day over good mountain roads, drinking water from flowing springs famous in In- dian times, enjoying brisk mountain air, miles of green mountain | scenery with deep gorges and clear steraus, for ‘the particular purpose of seeing specific things, and find the place closed for “improve- ments”, it is downright frustrating. ‘At Drake Well Park, Oil Creek, which turned out to be a good-sized stream, flows quietly by and most of the woods is undisturbed. The replica of the original well building is in place with similar but not the | the original machinery. Boulders a few feet away mark the site of the original well, and honor various persons prominent in early oil his- tory. But the museum was closed for additions and all the material stored in town. The previous build- ing is half torn down and being en- larged to about the size of three high school gyms. The crude oil was first pumped, then flowing wells erupted some with 3000 barrels per day. This re- ‘quired transportation, containers, and refineries, and whole new towns sprang up almost overmight. Rafts were used on ‘the streams and thous- ands of teams carried barrels of oil, constantly increasing prices until they asked about half what the oil was worth at the mearest railhead. This caused Samuel Van Syckel, who is represented by a tablet, to con- struct a two inch pipe line a dis- tance of five miles from Pithole to Miller Farm, the first in the* world, which moved oil at a fraction of the teamsters’ charge and put them out of business. A replica of the first railroad tank car, a small flat car with two big inverted wood tubs, each holding 40 to 45 gallon of crude oil, is on display. It was placed in use in 1865, replaced by present type metal tank cars in 1869. Boom towns sprang up right and left. Most fabulous was Pithole. Tt contained four log cabins im May, 1865. In three months it was a city of 15,000 with fifty hotels, banks, churches, newspaper, water system, and a railroad. The following year in February, some of the water wells began to show oil and some of the oil wells began to go dry. There were several large fires and panic siezed the town when an ice jam in the creek flooded the town. Pumps and other equipment were removed elsewhere and buildings torn down. The postoffice, busiest in Pennsyl- vania after Philadelphia and Pitts- burgh, blocked up with wncalled-for mail. The railroad went bamkrupt. Everyone moved away. By 1868 there remained only six people, making Pithole, now a grassy coun- tryside, the most famous ghost town in Pennsylvania. Next day we went up to Fort Le Beouf, on Riviere aux Beoufs, else- where called French Creek, now in the town of Waterford. Here also, the museum was closed for altera- tions and improvements, although = |SELINGO SIGNS ; SIGNS OF ALL KIND BUILT - PAINTED TRUCKS WINDOWS DISPLAYS SHO-CARDS PAPER SIGNS SIGN CLOTH SCOTCHLITE ART WORK no work was in evidence. There is a statue of George Washington, the site of an ancient well, and the Jud- son House built in 1820, not nearly as interesting as some houses right in our own Wyoming Valley. A state marker states that the site was the location of three forts: The Fort Le Boeuf built by the French in 1753, abandoned by them in 1759; an English fort built in 1760, burned by Indians in 1763; and an Ameri- can Fort built to protect settlers in 1794. ] George Washington called the Al- legheny (a Delaware name) by the Iroquois name, the Ohio. It is a good long river draining over a third of the state, with the other rivers com- ing at Pittsburgh. In the middle of Potter County, about in the mid- dle of the Norther Tier, there is a the Genessee leading to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrne, from that into \ the Susquehanna and Ches- peake Bay, from the Allegheny- Ohio-Mississippi system leading to the Gulf of Mexico. The Allegheny long distance. Some of the tribu- taries, such as the Clarion, are good big rivers. Penns Woods Notebook By Jim Hopple An action taken by the Pennsyl- vania Game Commission im Harris- burg has given hunters an extra day ‘to bag their quota of one deer apiece this year. The commission adopted a two day antlerless deer season for December 16 and 17 after hearing testimony that the state’s deer herd was too large. Forest industries and foresters face the problem that too many deer are eating up the mew, young tree growth, especially of the most valuable trees, said the representa- tives. In another action the commission set the wild turkey season for most of the state for November 2 to 16. The season bag mis on turkeys is one. The open season on hares (snow- ! shoe rabbits) is December 26 to January 4 with two the daily bag limit and six the season limit. There will be no open season on hares in Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Centre, Elk, Forest, Huntingdon, Jefferson, Mckean, Somerset and Warren Counties. There is no closed season or bag limits on raccooms, woodchucks, ‘grackles, skunks and opossums any- where in the state, There is no open season om hen pheasants, cub bears, elk otters, Hungarian partridges and" sharp- tailed grouse. Hunting on Sunday is prohibited. IS SEVEN MONTHS PAR FOR COURSE IN - DRIVER LICENSES ? It took seven months to get here, but Mrs. Gertrude Eck- ert’s application for a driver's license is at hand, delivered July 1. Mrs, Eckert lives at 37 Hazel- - tine Street in one of the only two houses on that side. It used to be 17 before Shaver- town houses were renumbered. The mailing address was Trucks- ville RD 1. Mrs. Eckert’s first applica- tion was destroyed in the De- cember holocaust when number- - less applications were ditched. She applied again; sent a third application and a fourth, each with the changed address. In February she applied through a personal service ar- rangement and received her license. Now she has another license application. Kindly enclose check. : a8 = Mr .and Mrs. Charles Hogler, Par- rish Street, had as guests recently their’ daughter and family, Mr .and Mrs, Don Mitchell, Allison, Sally and Tad, Fairfax, Va. FOREIGN JOBS free transportation—special tax p p p } b b p p | complete information send $2 to b Beverly Hills, Calif. p b p b ; CALIFORNIA JOBS watershed separating the flow into is still navigable, with locks, for’ by Leighton Scott CRAZY DAYS‘ Boy oh boy, the lazy, hazy, erazy days were felt around here. last week, even with our superior clime. As fast as all those pesky gnats floated - in. on the heat wave, just so speedy were the afternoon swim- ming set riding, crawling, , and thumbing through dusty .construct- ion to the Lake, Cobwebs were being swept off cottages from Lake Silkworth to Root Holler. Swimming areas at Laketon and Warden Place weére very busy for the first time this year, following an unfortunately cold June. How about them new two-piece bathing suits ?, says one eagle-eyed year-rounder at Harveys Lake.. Yeah, how about ’em? In one turn around the lake, for not keep- ing my eyes on the road, I just miss- ed hitting: 1. a stalled family -car 2. a double-parked delivery vam 3. the Lake Township truck. - Thank heavens for the rain on Saturday, or I would've been killed for sure. Who was that guy in the patrol car who raced his engine passing by two swimsuits walking n near the picnic grounds? AROUND TOWN What do you think? will that concrete wall which hangs over the highway near Birch Grove fall on motorists before it gets removed or not? Seems to be supported by one. | piece of steel stuck in the ground. Don’t forget the parade from Leh- man ‘to the Horseshow grounds to- morrow at 8. Everybody’ll be there. Unless the situation changes by then, the mighty kamikaze Yamaha Super Sport motorcycle, known as “that scooter’, occasional mount of Sir Leighton, won’t make the scene. I can’t find the key. To those friends who are spreading a misconception: Jeanie js mot afraid of airplanes. [She’s just scared she won’t be able to talk British when she get there. ) An aerial photograph of Dallas is under study in Washington now, to help decide where to put the new postoffice, I've seen the picture. Maybe they got better eyes than I do, but, even knowing the terrain, I couldn’t choose a spot for the post- office from it. . Home from the hospital is Red Ambrose, supposed to be resting from severe back ailment, but re- portedly sneaking off to work, al- though his doctors weren't even in | agreement that he ought to be out of the hospital bed. Ruth says he'd ‘like to see his friends at home, and that it would be a good way to keep him there. Teenage crowd has moved to Han- son’s pavilion Tuesday and Friday nights for rock ’n roll. For those over-twenty-one it looks like a quiet B® | summer, unless you go to the valley. Inmates at Chase Institution have their salt shakers back, but still have to cut their hamburger with forks, after restrictions following the Muslim riot. Parents: If you can’t find little Charley, there's a strong possibility he’s playing Tom ‘Swift Joins the Arapahoes in the auction tents. One gets the distinct feeling of being watched when one passes by the grounds and sees the tent folds | part ever so slightly, followed by soft mutterings. THE DALLAS POST OFFSET DEPARTMENT Is One Of The Finest In "Pennsylvania DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA ‘Better Leighton Never From — Pillar To Post... “What you do,” instructed: the voice on the telephone, hit it with a towel and then throw it outdoors.” “Won't it splash?” “You don’t hit it that hard, dummy, just one good swipe with the towel, and it will fall down on the floor, temporarily stunned. The trick is to quick grab it before it wakes up and heave it out- doors.” Z 2 “Isn’t there a ‘possibility that it will just fly out if T open the door wide and turn off the lights?” “Nope, it will just invite in all its brothers and sisters If you open the door. "There is nothing quite so catching as bats.” The voice trailed off for a moment and came back with renewed vigor, “Except maybe fleas. Fleas are the MOST.” “It isn’t just ONE bat. It's THREE bats. all around to just shoot them down ?” “Use a towel. That's the classic method of dealing with a bat.” The bats continued to swoop in dizzying circles. Anybody who says bats flit silently is nuts. Their wings make a definite flutter as they pass closely overhead, and it’s all very well to com- fort yourself with the reflection that bats have built-in radar systems which prevent their colliding with anything, and that it is a ‘myth that they like to tangle themselves in your hair. I am still opposed to bats. : It looked like a good idea to go out on the back porch and do a spot of caning. The light might attract ¢he creatures, and, once on the porch, they might stay there. The door could be slammed quickly after a hurried rush into the kitchen. Then the bats would be im- mured on the porch, and thescreen door could be: propped open from outside, to permit free access to the back yard. It worked according to schedule. The only drawback was that “is to Wouldn't it be simpler _only one bat accepted the bait. That left two bats still flitting about downstairs. Now, let's see. If I go upstairs in the dark, leaving the light on in the kitchen, the bats will never know that I have escaped. I can shut the door into the hallway and the door into the stairwell. And then I can turn on the bedside light and read a whodunit. It worked like a charm. [For ten minutes it worked like a charm. And then there was a swoop and a swift passage of wings, and there were the two remaining bats, dive-bombing across the bed. Maybe bats cannot enter through a keyhole, but these bats used either the keyhole or the slim crack under the door. Or maybe, grim thoughts, they were an entirely new set of bats, and the original bats were still swooping around downstairs. Only one thing to do. Turn off the lights, remove the screen from the window, tie back the curtains, open the doors, and haul the sheet snugly up over the head. Bats are nocturnal animals, and by daylight they would find a spot to hang themselves up and stop swooping. And next night we could do the same thing all over again, me and the bats. Anybody who can swat a bat with a turkish towel must have exceptional aim, or care nothing about the crockery. Steeled against bats, and deciding to take them in my stride, I turned on the lights the following night, and awaited the familiar flit-flit-flit. And there wasn’t a bat in sight. But the television isn’t working, so mayhe there is a fried bat within. : Encouragement from the phone: getting a belfry?” sympathetic. ! How about So “You got bats? That's the nice thing about the family. Collies With Sloe car, Lost Bapey, A truck’ driven by Willard a attack. ' He was not hurt. A friendly black puppy wandered vert, Fernbrook, collided with a |: stump at the side of Harris Street into ihe home of Mes, Morgner Saturday afternoon, after = the Goldsmith, Knob Hill, Trucksville, driver reportedly had an asthma | early this week. VV VV VV VV PV VV VV VV VI VV Ivy vryvrvr vr Pv vr vy vr vrvvevve vee 5. . 9p Se 49¢ - 55¢ JIM’S VALLEY VIEW NURSERY ‘CHASE CORNERS Fertilizers Gardening Tools @ : Flowers ® Fresh Produce TREE SURGERY and LANDSCAPING «se oe Nomegionn SrawhaTles 5 Shrubs tind iimtliitosistnmnnatbiadio Becta EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED CONTACT LENSES DR. |. 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