| ON A — PAGE 2 I THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 a 1 - Member Pennsylvania Newspaper ' Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. 180 o" > = © - Publishers Association On a ® . Cunt ~ year; $2.50 eix months. | held for more than 30 days. to be placed on mailing list. 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 six months. Out-of-State subscriptions; $4.50 a year; $3.00 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. “More Than A Newspaper, : Now In Its 73rd Year” A nen-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. 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Advertising deadline - Monday 5 P.M. Advertising copy received after Monday 5 P.M. will be charged at 85¢ per column inch. Classified rates 5c per word. Minimum if charged $1.15. Single eopies at a rate of 10¢ 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; 3 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. Editorially ~ Sabin oral vaccine long ago. ~~ No date has : when? children. protected. Salk vaccine is effective. oungsters. dren for immunization. result is by legislation. been set for inoculation in Luzerne county, and the polio season is upon us. ‘Medical Association is going along with the project, but 3 } Polio shots have been available now for years. The newer oral vaccine Speaking: Polio Inoculation In the matter of mass polio ‘inoculation Luzerne ~ County has been dragging its heels. Wyoming County had its mass inoculation of the Luzerne County : ‘The way it looks to us, there is no time to wait for ‘a date in the fall. It is now that we need the protection. : It is a wry commentary on human nature that parents who wrung their hands ten years ago, praying for a vac- cine against polio, have been negligent in having their The is easier to sell to the Here again, parents will neglect to bring their chil- : ) They say, it’s too much trouble, ~ and if other children are protected, how will our own children catch it? Let other folks get inoculated. How many parents would have their children vacci- nated against smallpox if it were not the law of the land ~ that school admission hinges upou a vaccination scar? Polio could be wiped out practically overnight if everybody cooperated instead of being bone lazy. Apparently the only way of accomplishing the desired It Came Out of Nowhere “It just came out of nowhere, judge.” That's the thinnest alibi for a traffic accident that it’s possible to cook up, and folks should invent something different. Something like, “I just wasn't paying attention to that side road and my mind was a hundred miles away.” Cars don’t come out of nowhere. tiolpated: They can be an- But KIDS can come out of nowhere, dashing from be- tween parked ‘cars or riding a runaway bicycle. A ball bouncing into the street is followed ALWAYS . . . repeat ALWAYS . . by a youngster in hot pursuit, and if you don’t get your brakes on, you'll be telling it to the judge. Highways are for kids as well as for cars. Kids are completely incalculable. Pedestrians could do a little something to make thei. selves safer, too, but don’t depend on it. Pedestrians seldom attack cars. their baby carriages down the highway, inviting disaster. But they trundle They walk after dark, wearing dark clothing, secure in the belief that they are visible. And if you hit a pedestrian, no matter how careless he is, you're just plain lucky if you have a good healthy insurance policy to take up the slack. Nothing can com- pensate for the shock of knowing that you have hit some- body. But financial coverage goes a long way to cushion the disaster. Take it easy during the season of heavy traffic. Penns Woods Notebook By Jim Hopple This is the time of the year when our birds are having ‘their young, one of the most well known of which is the robin. The robin is likely to be the first bird thet a child will know by name, d lives in all parts of the state. It seems to like to be near people. t is big enough to be seen very pasily, and hops about on the ground looking for food. Most of our robins go south for the winter, They come back in ear- ly spring. The sight of a robin is usually ong of the first signs of The bird got its name by mistake. ‘When the early settlers saw it, it eminded them of .the robin red- i they had known in the Old Bo they called it a robin. ‘it is not a close relative of the adbreast, It is a zguch closer relative of the bluebird and the thrushes, It belonge to the thrush family. The robin builds a very sturdy nest, made of sticks, leaves, and grass cemented together with mud. The nests are often found around or close to houses. The mother robin lays from three to five blue eggs. The adults are kept busy finding worms and insects. In about ten days the young are covered with feathers, They have speckled breasts that remind us that they are cousins of the thrushers. Robins, like people, eat both plant and animal food. You may mot keep a robin if you find one, and if it is not harmed do mot pick it up. If the robin is harmed in some way you are to take it to the nearest Game Commission Office or tell your local game protector. For Beautiful PRINTING id The Post Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post It Huppened 30 Years Ago The older section of the old Raub Hotel was being razed by Gene Fo- gle, the newer or tower section re- maining. Shirley Louise Cobleigh, 5, was instantly killed when run over by a truck operated by her father, Ken- neth Cobleigh, while backing into his coal yard in Fernbrook. Haying was progressing well, with good stands in the area in spite of drought. Beavers were becoming a nui- sance, destroying property. Game Commission planned a trapping sea- son. ‘White lines to mark traffic lanes were asked for on the Luzerne- Trucksville highway, where trucks and slow moving vehicles blocked traffic. Kingston Township reported finamces with a reduction in debt of $1,000. Shrine View residents were inves- tigating cost of drilling a well for community water supply. | Farm income in Pennsylvania was down 50 percent. Died: in New York, Marguerite Harmon, native of Noxen:. Risley’s Hardware Store adver- tised lowest prices in years for building materials, urged folks who needed to repair their buildings to do it without delay, pumping life- blood into the community economy. First National Bank of Dallas had assets of $654,059.11. Tomato puree was six cans for a quarter; mayonnaise 15 cents a pint; baked beans 6 cans for two bits; butter 2 pounds 59 cents; smoked picnics, 10 cents a pound, coffee 17 cents, supervisors It Happened 20 Years Ago Plea for blood for men in the service netted omly eight volunteers from ‘the Back Mountain. All the rest of the 27 original volunteers chickened out. Company A of State Guard planned to encamp at Irem Country Club. Gale Clark, secretary of Monroe Township school board, resigned. Thomas Lloyd, 18, Trucksville, drowned while swimming with fel- low soldiers at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Chief Fred Swanson amd his Lake firefighters confined a stubborn blaze at Sunset, saving nearby cot- tages amd stores when a second floor apartment was gutted in property belonging to Charles Randall. Damage done by fire to Lake Township high school two weeks earlier was estimated at $4,200. Ban om pleasure driving cancelled out much of the summer activity at Harveys Lake. Joe MacVeigh was elected presi- dent of Dallas Borough Council, and Nichola Cave was named to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of Peter D. Clark. Heard from im the Outpost: Earl Williams, Savannah; Albert Mekeel, Camp Pickett; Tom C.: Malkemes, Fort Bliss; D. Campbell, Texas; Al- bert Garinger, Colorado; Eugene Fogle, San Francisco APO; Benjamin Brace, Nashville. Wyoming County Fair was can- celled. No gas. But folks arrived on horseback and by buggy to see a swimming exhibition at Irem Coun- try Club. Died: Dorothy Wentzel, 10, at Lehman. Fred Weaver, 58, Hunts- ville, Henry M. Rogers, 85, Lake Township native. Mrs. Helen C. Marsh, 52, Lehman. Married: Bernice Cook to Richard Miner. Arch Austin, former supervisor of Monroe Township schools, was made personnel manager of Wilkes-Barre Carriage Company defense plant, while on leave of absence from teaching, Miss Eleanor Atkinson, 82, was honored by her Bible Class at an Idetown picnic. It Happened 10 Years Ago Arthur Gay contributed a hun- dred year old passenger pigeon net to the Seventh Library Auction, Annual exodus to tobacco camps in Connecticut was well under way, with many young folks of the area enlisted. Dallas-Franklin school board re- organized, with Thomas Moore as president, succeeding John Perry. Jointure was in the wind. Pro- posed was a semior high school Back Mountain, pervising principal of Dallas Bor- ough-Kingston Township, showed school. Barnyard Notes outlined plans for the Auction, said that Friends Mag- azine, Chevrolet mational mag, was sending a photographer to cover the event, result of a story Bucks for Books in the Philadelphia Inquirer. (Story was written by Hix, illustrat- ed by Jimmie Kozemchak.) Married: Shirley Dougal to Calvin H. Strohl. Grace M. Schminke to Paul Winter. Rose Picaretta ‘to Peter Ondish. Mavis Fancher to Coral R. Ide. in good ' shape, | which would accommodate pupils from all ten school districts of the Jameg Martin, su-: slides outlining population centers! and possible location of such a joint! THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963 Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters Just recently I was told, in the western part of the state, that the local milk processing and distribut- ing plant operated by one of the big dairies had been closed outright, leaving thirty dairy farmers, with big lifetime investments, no market for their milk. The company is im- porting milk over 125 miles from New York State and selling it to local consumers, In addition to the blow to the farmers, there are com- plaints by the consumers on the keeping qualities of the milk, which must be at least two days old on arrival in the area. No authoritative figures are avail- able, but as told by one of the con- sumers, the company can buy milk in New York State about 40 cents a cwt. cheaper than locally. The local price is fixed by the Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission, but there is no regulation covering what a Pennsylvania buyer has to pay in New York State for milk he pro- poses to sell in Pennsylvania. Rather than sacrifice their entire invest- ment and livelihood, it is probable that the local farmers would have been compelled to accept the 40 cent, cut, but this would be illegal. This is a new development in that area and just what will happen to the farmers remains to be seen. About all they cam do is to try to spread out the sales to surrounding dairies, while they already have a surplus now, thus reducing the drinking milk percemtage and the farmers’ prices over a wider area. In the meantime, over the pro- tests of The Dairymen’s League and others, Federal exam'mers in the month of May allowed representa- tives from Wisconsin and Minnesota to present proposals for supplying and pricing milk in ten northeastern markets including New England points down to Washington, D. C. For a long time, midwest prices have | prevailed for butter and other man- ufactured milk products: and most of the eastern market has been tak- en over by midwestern suppliers. This is true right in our local super- markets where butter, canned milk, cheese, etc., are chiefly furnished by midwest sources. It is not too lomg ago that nearly every small’ town in the Pennsyl- vania dairy region had a creamery. A good local example is Harring- toms at Dushore. ‘With the Glendale at Wilkes-Barre and other plants this was taken over by Woodlawn, then through various changes, with always more territory added, by Foremost from the Philadelphia Dairy. ‘As reported in the daily press, Foremost Dairies, Inc. in 1962 made a profit of $5,380,000, an in- crease of over $400,000 over the year before. But the Federal Trade Commission went to work on them under the monopoly laws and the company agreed to sell about a quarter of their sources of income. Foremost made a deal to sell to ‘bargaining positions of Motec Industries, New York City. To quiet complaints, that firm has an- nounced plans to reactivate The Philadelphia Dairy for operating purposes and to employ for manage- ment services Walter Justin and Associates. They expect to make as much profit as Foremost made on the same properties, maybe more, which means the farmer gets no re- lief from them. Federal and state authorities fix prices paid to local farmers on the basis of milk sold for drinking and that sold for manufacturing, in some areas a blended, or average, price. These prices are always fixed under an atmosphere of a perpetual sur- plus. The only formula I have seen covers the Philadelphia area in the 1950's. It is probably still used. It was based on Index prices covering five items: wholesale prices in U.S. of all commodities; Pennsylvania price of 20% dairy feed; prices re- ceived for other farm products in Pennsylvania; midwest condensery prices; and the formula class I milk sales, These were averaged into a composite index, under which in ten years prices were raised 20 cents four times and dropped 20 cents six times with a net drop of 40 cents. None of the components was domi- nant every time in the changes. A committee reported to USDA that sometimes the actual prices received by farmers was less than the calcu- lated price under the formula, and a weakness of the formula was “the establishment of class I prices some- what on the low side during the past few years considering prices in sur- rounding markets”. The Philadel- phia federal order class I price has been somewhat below the calculated cost of obtaining fluid milk from the midwest”. The USDA has estimated that in 164 markets east of the Rockies, dealers buying prices in 1960-61 in- creased an average of 18.7 cents per 100 lbs. for each 100 miles distance from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, more in the Middle Atlantic markets. Charges for weighing, testing, cool- ing and loading prior to shipment averaged 37 cents per hundred pounds. Long distance shipment of bulk milk showed an average trans- portation rate of 16.4 cents per 100 Ibs. per 100 miles. Larger tankers, better roads, and more direct routes have made transportation cheaper and faster. All these figures would not apply in any particular area, some are higher and some lower. In gemeral the bigger operations are cheaper. Besides distance from major milk supply areas, difference in prices paid to farmers by dealers are af- fected by federal and state regula- tions, supply and demand conditions in the immediate local area, and the producers and distributors. None of these seem to offer much hope for the dairy farmer. Ready To ‘Whip Up A Batch Of Auction Fudge Mrs. Dean Johnson and Mrs. Paul | Edward Johnson, are ready to make Lauer, co-chairmen of the Auction |fudge for the Library Auction in Candy Booth, with two mémbers of the Junior Womans Club com- mittee, Mrs. Elston Brace and Mrs. the Johnson kitchen. The booth solicits candy of all varieties for sale Thursday Friday amd Saturday. —Photo by Kozemchak Eastern Star Takes Hemors At Meeting Dallas Chapter #396 Order of the Eastern Star received many honors at the Grand Chapter Sessions, Sy- ria Mosque, Pittsburgh, the week of June 24 when Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin was installed as the District Deputy Grand Matron to preside over the twelve chapters of District 21 A for the 1963-1964 term; Mrs. Elma Price wag active as a Grand Page during the Grand Sessions; and Mrs. Betty Meeker served on the Warder Com- mittee. Mrs. Austin was also privileged and grateful to accept a $400 Estral Award for Lynn McCarty, who is attending Union College; Kentucky. Featured In Recital Linda Remville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Renville, Luzerne will present her Senior Voice Re- cital at Trucksville Methodist Edu- cational Building on Friday evening at 8 pm. A student of Mrs. Ruth Turn Reynolds, she will specialize in semi classical selections. John Wardell Trucksville will assist her with trumpet offerings. Contents of CARE’S $1 Food Cru- sade packages average 25 lbs. or ‘more of food for the needy overseas. Safety Valve EVERYBODY WAS CONCERNED To the Dallas Post: Now that our family is all to- gether again and we kmow every- thing is going to be ok. we would like to thank our friends and neighbors: for ‘their prayers and genuine concern over Jackie's re- cent illness . Jackie just had to get well with so many wishing him well. We are very humble and this makes it dif- ficult to say more than thanks with a capital T. Qur special thanks go to the Dallas Ambulance who in less tham three hours notice had us on our way to Philadelphia. Boyd White released Ray Titus for the day and Jack Sheehan was a most cheerful and excellent driver. Virginia Lowe, efficient amd lovable nurse gave up part of her vacation to go with Jack. She's tops. Her chief concern was for Jack and our entry to Hospital was that much easier because of her All of these ptople refused re- muneration amd the Jack Barnes family are just the luckiest family in the Back Mountain. ‘We shall never forget this. We can’t think of a better place to live than here. Hope we are deserving of all we have received in the way of love and concen these past few weeks. The Jask Barnes family Nobody would suspect that the dance. Queen of the Rodeo at Lehman Horse-Show is twenty-four years old | formerly of and has five children. Walter Me- | Baltimore, keel, chairman of the Parade, crowns | | radio from Gogsart’s; a wallet from] a a chilly Marilyn Yeisley at half past | | | Shel Evans; a wicker handbag from | |! Vivia, and Dick Demmy complete ten gallons of gas from | the group. midnight on the grounds, after the press of rodeo | Ross Horse-Show | McCrory’s; wife of Keith Yeisley, Shavertown, now of! received a transistor | Marilyn, Williams; a Rodeo Sundae events had cancelled out the square from Forty ‘Fort Ice-Cream;* and DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA The Rodeo Queen - jewelry fom Gace Cave. ~~ Mrs. ‘Stuart Marks stands along- side the queen, and runners-up Mary | Beth Carey and Elaine Hunt lend smile. . Willard Garey, Barbara Photo by Paramocmt Studio Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott Most of last week and this we are spending right around home, of course, because of the Horse Show and the Auction. I spent the better part of the Fourth stalking around the arena in Lehman taking pictures. One common question I get is: How many have you taken? Answer: Be- tween 80 and a hundred. I forget how many rolls I brought along. I took most of my shots of people, because I don’t know one horse from another. It's a fact that I pre- fer people to horses. But chiefly the reasom I don’t photograph horses is that I don’t know anything about them. It was nice to see members of the local Cloverleaf 4-H Club do so well. They are old friends of ours at the Post, and bring in their club news regularly. People kept telling me what a nice day it was for the show, which I had to agree to, temperature-wise at least. But between the flying dust in the morning and that sneaky old sun in the afternoon, I felt at the end of the day like somebody who was just run out of town. Crowds were everything the Vol- unteer Firemen could have hoped for, and included, as always, people like me, who come out for the fes- tivities, and don’t know a horse from a house. From last year, I knew enough to sneak over to the Auxiliary tent for early lunch, because as soci as they announce ‘‘soup’s on”, ya can’t get near the place. They always have a terrific bill of fare. I think maybe if the entries are going to show up so enthusiastically for the evening events the night be- fore the Fourth, they ought to start a little earlier. By 10:45 p.m., with two events znd a square dance to go, I was parked on an anonymous bale of hay, staring glascily at the ground, while an equally despcind- ent young feller in western garb sat next to“ me; His tale of woe: His friend still had his horse, which he needed for a coming event. What a dummkopf I-was. out to photograph ‘the parade, parked in the show grounds, and had to hitch out to Lehman Center. Lanceford Sutton, who picked me up, looked doubtful at my idea of I drove | taking pictures from the fire engine, | pointing out that they'd be at the | | 5 end of the procession. He was right. Anybody see a stupid-looking photographer run- ning about one mile along the high- way trying to catch up to the front end of the parade? AUCTION - You want to come over to my place some time, and I'll show you a five-string banjo which my granny bought me at the second or third auction for fifteen dollars. As solid as it was when made, semi-custom, around 1875, it has been priced (be- fore the folk-song boom, even) be- tween $175 and $200 by an expert. I was horror-stricken last Satur- day momming to look out the front door and see Bob Fleming sighting through his outspread arms toward the Post and saying “It'll just about fit right here.” “Whatever you're selling; T don’t like it”, he could get in the door. “We just want to put up a tent out there”, he said. 1 thought: Gosh, the auction is getting big. “We've got a camping tent to auction off’, he explained, “amd thought it would bring a better price if we could show it pitched”. “All week?”, I asked softly, thinking oh well, he knows more about what he’s doing than I do. “No, no, just for six hours or so Friday night”, he chuckled as he walked back out to his car, and I could hear him laughing to e himself; “All week. n I projected hastily before |: From— Pillar To Post... By Hix The last paragraph in the letter said: ~ “I trotted down and donated five bucks after, they came up and cut Charlie out of the barrel.” For intriguing understatements, that certainly takes the prize. . (It would date me too completely to say it took the barbed wire garters or the fur-lined bathtub.) No inkling of how Charlie got in the barrel, or whether they scraped the bottom of the barrel in getting Charlie out. What kind of a barrel? A metal oil drum requiring a blow torch? A simple affair of staves and metal hoops, requiring only to be pulled carefully apart like plucking the petals from a daisy? For the matter of that, who's Charlie ? Careful perusal of the roster of grandchildren reveals no Charlie, that is no Charlie down Herndon way. Could be one in Massa- ‘chusetts, though he is normally referred to as Scotty. Also, who got the five bucks? The volunteer firemen ? The local ambulance association ? The Amalgamated Order of Welders and Unwelders ? In the meantime, the thought of Charlie curled like an anchovy in ajbarrel is constantly with me. # It must have been a tight! fit, or Charlie would not have needed to be cut out. Did somebody feed Charlie an extra sandwich after he crawled into the barrel, thereby swelling Charlie enough so that he could not emerge? If Charlie got in, why couldn’t he get out? Fu di die of tiny before I find out. @h Tibrary “Tucton Grr | Calf Joe Parks poses with, the three month old Guernsey heifer calf, his donation to the Library Auction, in front of his home in Lehman. Mr. Parks is a school ‘teacher of long standing, but a farmer at heart, with a considerable acreage in Leh- man Township, Shel Evans, chairman of live- stock, reports that his right-hand man Jimmy Richardson has rounded up not omly puppies, but pigeons and rabbits, ducks, and even bantam chickens. The Auc- tion lamb will come as usual from Herman Thomas, and another lamb from Peter Skopic., a bottle baby complete with bottle. Dr. Richard Post has promised to give the first immunizing shot free for each puppy or dog bought at the Auction. Latest news is that young tur- keys (live) will go over the block, gift of Doc Jordan. And that a parakeet has joimed the gang. —Photo by Shel Well, thought? I mean, the chairman comes and sights in to put a tent on your lawn, and doesn’t say how big a tent or for how long, and . . . Oh, well, ya had to be there. See you at the auction. what would you havej CARD OF THANKS Allen Lee Landmesser wishes to thank all those who extended their sympathy on the recent sudden death of this brother, Walter Stewart Landmesser of Baltimore, Md. The Dallas. Post . . . Uses The famous Kenro Camera In Its OFFSET DEPARTMENT CORRECTION Mr, and Mrs. Ray Good, Shick- shinny, have been close friends with ‘the Arthur Newmans since 1916, e ri