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Editor and Publisher
Associate Editors—
Mgrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Leicaron R. Scott, Jr.
. Myra Z. RISLEY
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Social Editor . ............ .Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
Business Manager ........... cioue. Doris R. MALLIN
Circulation Manager .............. Mgrs. VELMA Davis
Sports -...... Gea Jim LOHMAN
Accounting ...... SANDRA STRAZDUS
Editorially Speaking:
Immunity For A Quarter
A quarter is the price of a loaf of bread, a pound of
marshmallows, three tomatoes, half a dozen ears of corn,
a small bottle of aspirin.
A quarter is what used to admit you to the movies.
It will buy you ‘a pint of cheap ice-cream.
A quarter will buy you status in the Sunday School
collection plate.
And it will buy you immunity from Polio.
Luzerne County Medical Association has mounted the
band wagon, following the lead of many other counties
in Pennsylvania, and is now sponsoring the countywide
vaccination program.
Take advantage of the program. It is not alone
for your benefit, but for the benefit of everybody with
whom you come in contact.
If you get polio, you are a menace to the community.
Line up September 15, take your lump of sugar with
its drop of polio vaccine on it, drop your quarter in the
box, and be thankful that one of the most devastating
diseases of the century can now be controlled, along with
typhoid fever and diphtheria.
© It would be cheap at twenty-five dollars..
© At twenty-five cents, it is fantastic.
Salute To Clarence Laidler
After reading the comprehensive coverage on our
Clarence Laidler’s retirement after forty-two years of
banking, in the town papers, it seems redundant to publish
the same material in the Dallas Post.
Mr. Laidler has always been one of the more solid
citizens of the Back Mountain, spearheading movements
for Civil Defense, zoning, better cooperation between
Township and Borough, and everything worthwhile in
the area.
Some years ago, when the merger of First National
Bank of Dallas with Miners National Bank was new, resi-
dents were delighted to find veteran banker Laidler sta-
tioned at the Dallas Bank for a time.
; What Clarence is going to do with his spare time is
anybody's guess, but knowing the calibre of the man, the
Dallas Post feels that it will be interesting.
Any more wild ducks on the pond, Clarence?
Safety Valve
AND NOW A CURFEW
Dear Editor:
" It’s good to be home — after
nine weeks in the hospital — even
though you do see your husband
come round the corner of the barn
every time you look out the win-
dow — hear his voice every time
the phone rings — or miss the big
kiss amd “Hi”, Myry, at 5 o'clock.
But the church bells! On Sunday
— the day one needs to sleep after
being wakened ‘every four hours to
take medicine — 7:00, 7:30, 8:00,
8:30, 9:00, (I must have dozed off
throught ten) 11:00, 12:00, 6:00 —
and now a curfew! All we meed
now is both mills to blow whistles
at 12 and 1 to signify lunch hours
— just like the big boys do in the
cities!
Our folks came up the hard way.
Dad taught all day and tutored
every night umtil midnight to send
us girls to college.
Saturday at supper he’d say,
“Sunday school tomorrow, kids.
You get your baths, get dressed
and I'll be up in time to cut your
Weekday nights,
We were home — no curfew!
As grandpa used to say,
cow!
IT WAS 80 YEARS AGO
Dear Editor:
brother Phil Reynolds,
Thirty Years Ago column.
member of the welcoming group.
fingernails.” We were up — with- | at the University of Pennsylvania
out bells. with a gcholarship toward a Mas-
RNAS, Bro Mayra enh
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“you may go
out, but I want you home by 9:30.”
“Holy
What's the world coming to.”
Myra Risley
Thank you for the item about my
in your
Phil was flying the lead plane in
the welcome flight, and he was the
first to spot Balbo and his armada.
Later on, the Italian flyers were
entertained im New York, and some
of them returned on the Ile de
France. I met them en route to the
Sorbonne, as they were in my sec-
tion of the train going to Paris from
Le Havre. We conversed in Spanish,
and they were most courteous when
I explained that my brother was a
The item in the Post was passed
on to Phil's older som, George Mal-
colm Reynolds, who is staying with
us this summer and will matriculate
Shavertown came out in number
one position in the Miners’ Bank
League this year after a very suc-
cessful season.
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1963
Shavertown Team Tops Miners Bank League
First row (left to right):
Dungey, Andy Roan, Chuck ‘Glenn,
Brian Wadas, Bob Merithew, Scott
Wimmer, David Way, Ricky Shel- | Porter,
Cliff |
don, amd John Schneider.
" Second row: Robrt Way, coach;
Eddy Miskil, Bob Considine, John
Bob Youngblood, Donald
Brobst, Tonny Fanmick, Bill Flock,
Bob Boylan, Robert Filar, Gary Klip-
pinger, Lyle Merithew, manager.
Absent: Donald Voelker.
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
Eighteen huckleberry pickers
from Wyoming Valley were lost for
three days on North Mountain. Boy
Scouts later traversed the same
route.
Saturday night closing of Dallas
Bank was authorized. The bank had
been open for business, the only
bank in greater Wyoming Valley to
give this service. Closing hour was
set for noon.
Stormy weather decimated the
crowd at Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire
Company carnival.
A Forty-Fort boy of 17, Theodore
Smith, was killed when the car in
which he was a passenger over-
turned near Hillside on the Lehman
road. ;
Mrs. Mae Worthy, Wilkes-Barre,
was killed near Hillside when her
head struck a parked car. She was
a passenger in the rumble seat.
Dorrance Reynolds won mational
recognition for his pure-bred Guern-
sey bull, Edgewood Herald.
Speeding on Main Street was a
problem. No traffic lights.
Raymond Laux announced ‘his
candidacy for Kingston Township
tax collector.
Merle Shaver was advertising to
paint porches at 50 cents an hour,
or a flat charge of 13% cents per
square foot, best paimt included.
Thin drinking glasses were 29
cents a dozen.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Joseph Schuler, Trucksville, was
appointed head of the Ration Board.
Fred Howell was granted a patent
for his gear shift indicator, for use
on semi-automatic shifts. 2
William J. Corcoran, Dallas rural
carrier, celebrated his twenty-fifth
anniversary of service.
Evans Drug Store was cited. for
community service by the Rexall
firm.
Two Kingston boys were badly
injured when their car flipped
twice at Ruggles on the Noxen road.
Air raid wardems in Dallas got
their signals 15 minutes late, throw-
ing a monkey wrench into operation
of a practice alert.
Thomas Ayre felled the first tree
for clearing of the Memorial site in
Trucksville.
Service personnel heard from: W.
Montross, Camp Carson; Don Wat-
son, Camp Shelby; Estella Prushko,
Denver; Woodrow ‘A. Ruth, Atlanta;
Chet Rusiloski, Atlantic Fleet; Don
Metzger, England; Tom Templin,
ter’s degree in Languages. He grad-
uated in Jume from Westminster
College, Salt Lake City, Utah. His
brother, Philip Graham Reynolds, is
a sophomore there.
Thank you so much for your won-
derful paper.
Best of luck always,
Helen Reynolds Conrad.
Ed. Note: Dear Mrs. Conrad: We
are always so glad to hear from you.
Sometimes we wonder if it is worth
while to run the Only Yesterday
column, and then we get a letter
such as yours, and take a new lease
on life. Hix.
Library Auction Success
y July 26, 1963
Dear Mrs. Hicks:
Another succesful Library auction
is now history and we should make
a net profit of about $16,000, twelve
of which will be needed for the an-
nual budget of $18,000 for the op-
eration of the Library.
I wish to personally thank you
and the staff of the Post for your
splendid cooperation not only for
this year but for previous years.
‘Without dedicated people like your-
self our Library would be less suc-
cessful than it is.
Very sincerely,
David N. Schooley,
President
Back Mountain Memorial
Library Association
DNS::ew
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
The site of the Lundy property on
Main Street, recently offered at auc-
tion, was the location of one of the
better log houses in Dallas, original-
ly built by Christian Rice, about 100
years ago.
Around 1862 it was removed to
make room for a new home for
Clinton Honeywell, who built there
a big white house, most of which is
still standing although it would be
hard to find it. A little over forty
years ago, John Sullivan acquired
the property and built additions om
three sides of the building and
above it, completely concealing the
old house, which was changed inside
also to conform to his plans for
stores and apartments.
The center part of Dallas was in-
cluded in Lot 3 of the Connecticut
Township of Bedford, bought by
William Trucks in 1801, patented to
him by Pennsylvania in 1812-13
and sold to Philip Shaver in 1813.
He shortly sold part to Jonah Mec-
Lellon, who in turn, sold 25 acres to
Christian Rice in 1816. This included
land covered by the Lundy property
and reached over to include Wood-
lawn Cemetery. Rice built a saw-
mill in 1818 about where the Dev-
ens building, across from the office,
is now located.” The Rice familly,
through about four generations, sold
it off piece by piece. One of the last
parcels, including the house owned
by Charles Gregory, they owned for
over 100 years.
In 1816, Christian Rice bought a
farm on the top of Huntsville Street
Hill, which the family held about 97
years until it was sold to Elmer
Parrish in 1913. Jacob Rice, son of
Christian, born in 1817, probably
the first to occupy the log house on
Main Street, in 1838 bought 37 acres
from Abram King, and other parcels
of land so that the Rice family be-
came one of the largest property
owners in towm. Huntsville Road,
laid out in 1823, began at the mill
of Christian Rice and passed his
house on top of the hill.
Christian Rice in 1841 was taxed
as the owner of a watch (there was
only cine more in town) and a pleas-
ure carriage, the first one in town.
The carriage, an open buggy, was
traded to Rice in exchange for the
corner property at Main and Hunts-
ville Streets, (no buildings there
then), occupied by Joseph Hand,
and extending some distance on
both streets. Rice mused his home
for Methodist meetings and was
otherwise prominent in public af-
fairs. In 1818 he owned 70 acres,
ome house, two horses, and two
cows. He always listed himself as
a farmer. His son, Jacob, also a
farmer, became a business man in
various lines. He was a captain of
militia and was always called Capt.
Rice. He served in the Civil War
as a lieutenant and maintained a
home for the local GAR post. He
later lived in the big house now oc-
cupied by Dr. Bodycomb.
Coming back to the Lundy prop-
erty, the white house built by Clin-
ton Honeywell stood fairly close to
Main Street with a small lawn on
the side toward the alley along
Ryman’s Store, variously called Rice
and Mill Street. There was a white
picket fence on both sides of the
corner with a barn at the back, later
used for many years by B. W. Brick-
el and son, Ralph. There was a big
tree, probably am elm, just inside
the picket ferice, and a big telephone
pole about a sidewalk width from
the fence.
Prior to the advent of numerous
autos, the favorite coasting place in
town was Huntsville Street Hill. In
swinging around the corner into
Main ‘Street, the favorite plan, or in
crossing into the alley by the store,
the white picket fence along the
Honeywell property was a perfect
backstop in ease of skidding. Nu-
merous injuries to coasters were re-
ported every year amd damage to
the fence was a frequent occur-
rence.
When Main Street was paved,
with a speed limit of 15 M.P.H., the
sides were lined with a concrete
walk and curb, which reached out
several feet from the fence, and the
corner rounded. This was about
forty years ago, or a little more. By
then coasting had declined and the
fence could stand for a whole season
undamaged.
Sicily; Frank Billings, Fort Bliss;
Ralph Antrim, Fort Bemning; Will
Rogers, San Francisco APO; Emory
Kitchen, Tennessee; Edward Shilan-
ski, Navy Yard; John Seletski, New- |
port News; Walter E. DeRemer, Fort
Monroe; John (S. Sholtis, Camp
Rucker; Elias Miller, Long Beach;
Howard S. Rice, Camp McCoy; Jon-
athan W. Jones, Myrtle Beach;
Charles Barnes, Lincoln; Glenwood
Haring, Sicily; Elmer Lamoreaux,
Sicily.
Military police from Nanticoke
took part in war-games at Hunts-
ville,
Married: Marjorie Wendell
Harry Boice.
Candidate for Sheriff, Jacob E.
Hess.
Mrs. Rachel Wykoff was 95 years
old, Mrs. Daniel Evans, 93.
Died: Kathryn Girvan, 26, Dallas.
Mrs. Edith Davenport, 64, Sweet
Valley. Mrs. Margaretta Keil, 21,
Shavertown.
to
It Happened
10 Years Ago
Edward McDade and Andrew
Sokol were appointed mail-carriers
for house to house delivery in Dal-
las.
William Perry, bee inspector from
_| Oramge, was in Dallas looking for
Foul Brood.
Lewis Reese headed the American
Legion.
Shavertown awarded a contract
for a new fire truck to Peter Pirsch
Company for $14,800.
Frank Jackson had scar tissue
removed from his eye, following a
long period of sightlessness after a
cataract operatiom.
Wayne Harvey won the Commen-
dation Medal for service in commu-
nications in Korea.
Died: Mrs. Mae E. Hunt, 67,
Shavertown. Daniel Hoover, 82,
Outlet.
Married: Cecelia Kasaba to A.
Bruce Roberts. Charlotte Gregory
to Raymond Kuhnert. Ruth Hey
to Donald Besecker, a
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Home From Hospital
“Warren Gensel, 5, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Roland Gensel, Chase Manor,
returned home on Tuesday from
General Hospital, where he had been
a patient for two weeks.
HAYCOX VISITS
Harris Haycox, Boytecm Beach,
Florida, came up to attend the
Center Moreland Auction on Friday.
His friends were delighted to see
him.
For Letter Press
Try The Dallas Post
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Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
FALL VISITOR
As sure a harbinger of fall as ci-
der and falling leaves, Ira Frantz
dropped into the Post this week with
a basket of apples to sell. Said the
frost got all his other fruit.
CHURCH AUCTION
The Centermoreland Church auc-
tion and barbecue drew a huge crowd
Saturday night, probably because of
the publicity, which was very good.
For a church affair, the auctiom
is a real phenomenon, the second
biggest in the Back Mountain. It
brings a heavy attendance from the
Valley, and is a must, of course, for
everybody from Fernbrook to Ver-
non, east of the highway.
I'm a natural slob, so I don’t mind
eating chicken like a cave-man,
especially their chicken, which is
very, very good. But many of the
ladies have apparently never heard
of the loophole in Emily Post's doc-
trine which permits fingers for fried
chicken (and, probably, for barbe-
cued). People around me were try-
ing to cut pieces with the little
wooden forks which were really only
for the baked potato salad.
Looking at the mob of people
gathered before the block, I wond-
ered if the spomsors were thinking
of running it afternoons from here
on in. “No”, said Glenn Major, “be-
cause its hard to get help im the
afternoon”. And really, if it hadn’t
rained Friday night, they would
have cleaned the place out on sched-
ule. So I guess it’s just a matter of
them having a mice crowd to work
with, with no particular need to ex-
pand the operation.
Say, while I'm over here, how do
you pronounce Centermoreland ?
And do you spell it as one or two
words ?
Old-timers I know (and a lot of
other old-timers will not recognize
this) pronounced it Centermore-
LAND.
Telephone book lists it “Center
Moreland”, while the state sign out-
side of town says “Centermoreland’’.
Dan Waters, can you help on this?
SUGGESTION
If I’ve heard it once around town,
I've heard it a hundred times: If
the government would let the Le--
high Valley give up the line from
Dallas to Luzerne right now, it would.
not only save the cost of relocation
at $1.72 a yard, now in progress,
but it would give us the station prop-
erty for a nice new Postoffice locat-
ion.
It would also keep local wags
from threatening to paint the stat-
ion pink and green in the middle
of the night.
Put In New Floor
Shavertown Fire Company is in-
stalling a mew asphalt floor in the
meeting room of their new building.
"DRIVE-IN Theatre.
A
Official
and
We Give S & H Green Stamps!
AAA SERVICE
From—
By
has gone, marvel at the manner
school shoes and added two inche
selves that it is time to emerge fr
don civilized
tonight.
rod lights the dusty roadside.
Six weeks from now, it will
starting of the furnace.
Indian Summer, deceptively mild,
The heady aroma of burning
bed for the winter.
again to the: first crocus.
summer.
dealt with the sunny hours.
shooting the moon.
It has always felt that the
the sky.
Pillar to Post has come of age.
It has followed the astronauts through space,
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Pillar To Post...
Hix
This is the season when mothers wonder where the summer
in which Junior has outgrown his
s to his stature, and remind them-
om that halter and pair of shorts,
raiment, and take their sunburn to the shopping
centers to purchase fitting garb for their school-age children.
It's the season for coolish nights and hot days.
The season for a memory lapse about that cold spell that always
occurs around about the 25th of August,
surprise. (It NEVER happened before, the climate must be changing).
One thing is for sure, the first day of school the thermometer
will outdo itself, and kids will steam in their unaccustomed clothing.
And two weeks later, the radio will warn of expected frost
catching everybody by
The first flaming branch of the sumac is already visible. Golden-
be too cool in the house, and folks
who are lucky enough to have old fashioned cookstoves in the
kitchen will stoke them up in the morning, postponing the inevitable
The windshield will be frosted on the first of October, and
will follow the turning of the leaves.
leaves will follow that final raking
of the lawn and burying of the new bulbs, as the garden is put to
And there will be: that frantic rush, late in October, to find a
filling station open late at night, when the thermometer starts to
plummet, and you have forgotten to get anti-freeze for the car.
Summer is about over, and now you can begin to look forward
It is twenty-one years old this
It has followed the seasons, winter and summer and spring and
fall; it has welcomed grandchildren; it has lived through a war and
a Korean conflict; it has commented on disasters, but mostly it has
and deplored
moon should be left in ‘peace, to
shine peacefully down upon the earth, bringing into sharp relief the
inky shadows under the trees, sailing serene across the vastness of
Little people on the earth need something vast and limitless
to convince themselves of their own smallness.
Something like the unchanging procession of the seasons, and
"the conviction that winter ends, spring comes, and life renews itself.
MARINE NOTES
By Bill Barbour
Editor
Marine Products Magazine ~
A Chilton Publication
It’s later than you think. In most
sections of the country pleasure
mariners soon will be faced with
the chore of wrapping up the sea-
son. This means lifting the boat out
of the water making arrangements
for storage, and, most important,
puting all of the gear in shape for a
quick and easy start mext spring.
Distasteful as the mop-up job may
seem, it has to be done. The temp-
tation to skip a few of the dirtier
details is great, but a few extra mo-
ments of work in the fall may save
many hours (and dollars) next
spring.
A common springtime complaint
of outboarders is stalling and rough
idling engines. Usually this condit-
iom is caused by gummed and fouled
carburetors. And, more often than
not, the carburetor is gummed and
fouled simply because the boater
forgot to run his engine dry the
previous fall. This oversight leaves
gasoline pockets in ‘the throttle plate
amd float assemblies. Evaporation
sets in during storage and leaves a
gummy residue which fouls and
slows action in the carburetor. When
this happens, the only solution is a
tear-dowm and thorough cleaning of
the carburetor.
A lesson in proper storage pract-
ices will prevent the problem in most
cases. After running the engine dry
in the fall, if you have a little spare
time, it might even be wise to give
the carburetor a do-it-yourself over-
haul. You don’t have to be a super
mechanic to do the job, and ordin-
ary shop tools will suffice.
Of course the carburetor should
be removed from the engine for
thorough cleaning, While you've got
it in the shop, check the condition
of bolts and stud nuts, gas strainer
element, movement of the choke
valve, and freedom of throttle link-
age. Then, after cleaning fuel resi-
due and other foreign matter from
the carburetor, a thorough flushing
of the fuel system is in order.
This extra clean-up entails re-
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Must Be Used MONDAY
Through THURSDAY. Driver must be accompanied by
DAY
MAIN HIGHWAY —
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DALLAS ESSO SERVICENTER
At The “Y”
Routes
No. 309 and No. 118
moving and cleaning the fuel filter
bowl amd rinsing it with neutral
spirits of gasoline. Follow this by
blowing out, the fuel lines, paying
particular attention to areas where
hoses are bent or connected to fit-
tings. These are the spots ‘that re-
| tain gasoline pockts and give you
trouble next spring. Next, as long
the lines disconnected, you might
as well go right ahead and flush out
the gas tank.
Kunkle Drug-Store
Postmaster of Kunkle in 1880, Dr.
DH. Silkworth owned a drug-store
on ‘the site of what is now Dan
Meeker’s garage. His first baby de-
livery was Mrs. Calla Parrish, Beau-
mont.
Semi-Afinm!
SALE!
20 off
The Following
® Sport Shiris
(Short and Long Sleeve)
® Slacks
(Summer)
® Shiris
(Entire Stock)
Bermuda Shorts
® Pajamas
(Entire Stock)
® Jackets
(Entire Stock)
® Sport Coats
® Straw Hats
© Robes
(Summer)
® French-Shriner Shoes
(Present Stock)
®
Belts
Regular Price Tags On
All Marchandise — You
Deduct The 20%
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Established Since 1871
STORE HOURS:
Mon., Thurs., Fri. 9:30 to 8:55
Summer Items! iv
Tues., Wed., Sat. 9:30 to 5:25
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