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It Happened
30 Years Ago
Little Nancy Shupp, two year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Shupp, Kunkle, fell into a nearby
stream and was reported miss-
ing. Residents were scouring the
vicinity for her body.
A heavy four day rain drenched
the Back Mountain area. Creeks
overflowed, crops were damaged,
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Drug Store; Trucksville Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy;
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Editor.and Publisher... vis vasiives MyRA Z. RISLEY
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Editorially Speaking:
Traffic Will Be Wild
Traffic will be wild over the long Labor Day weekend.
If you join the bumper to bumper procéssion on the
crowded highways, give yourself a break . . . wear a
safety belt, and see that the children fasten their safety
belts before you pull out of your own driveway.
Most accidents happen, not thousands of miles from
home, but within walking distance of the family garage.
And don’t load up on tranquilizers or pain killers
before driving.
~ Tranquilizers interfere with normal reactions. All
you need a ten percent reduction in quick perception
and split second reaction to a situation, to turn a near-
miss into a collision.
Give the driver ahead the benefit of the doubt. May-
be he is travelling along on Cloud Number Seven, fortified
against the trip with something more potent than aspirin.
Don’t crowd him.
And let the drivers who want to go screeching along
- at seventy, pass you and get out of the way.
Placing the blame for an accident is hindsight of the
worst sort. But if a witness can be found who will stand
up in court and state that you were going at least seventy
miles an hour before you blew that tire and crashed into
a car in the wrong lane, killing three people including
your wife, you're going to look pretty silly when you
~ claim you were making a modest thirty-five, and it’s all
the other guy’s fault,
There are enough accidents on the highway without
deliberately asking for trouble.
So you are in a hurry to get to where you are going.
Don’t detour to the hospital or the morgue.
Safety Valve
LUCK TO LAIDLER
Dear Mrs. Hicks:
Thank you so much for your
in the Post. 1
never realized, how many friends
were interested enough to give me
flowers while I can still enjoy them.
I have received many letters as
well as baseball passes but the
crowning event was when the Chief
of the Kingston Township Police
threatened to arrest me for vag-
rancy because I was waiting for a
bus at Shavertown instead of work-
ing at one of my hobbies.
As to your question concerning
the ducks, I can only say that I
have not seen any ducks on our
pond but have seen, today, numer-
ous wild ducks flying South. Does
' this mean an early Winter?
I will never underestimate the
power of the press. Even if I had
a number under my picture I could
not have had more notoriety than
I received from the local papers.
Thank you again.
Sincerely
C. M. Laidler
August 19, 1963
Dear Clarence:
That small duck without the tail
feathers that somehow got down
behind the radiator in my living
room last year, was heading direct-
ly for your pond, flying in zigzags
as he dipped and swooped across
Pioneer Avenue. I always hoped
"that he made it. (His tail feathers
came off in my hand when I pulled
him out from his prison.)
Hope you enjoy your retirement,
but my considered guess is that you
will now go in for something be-
sides banking, make a million, and
deposit it in Miners National Bank
ke (Dallas Branch, of course.)
Receives Scholarship
WILLIAM WHITTAKER
William" A. Whittaker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alton Whittaker, Church
Street, Dallas, has been awarded a
college scholarship for the 1963-
64 school term by the J. W. Van-
Dyke Scholarship Foundation.
Mr. Whittaker,” who is beginning
his junior year at Pennsylvania
Military College, Chester, was
among 80 recipients in eight states,
who received scholarships this year.
A graduate of Dallas High School,
he is majoring in English for a
teaching career.
The J. W. VanDyke grants are
made on. a competitive basis to
children of current, retired or de-
ceased employees of the Atlantic |
Refining Company and since it's
inception has awarded almost 900
scholarships,
save crop from disaster.
C. L.Hartwell, Shavertown engi-
meer, analyzed the water situation
for Dallas residents and recom-
mended development of new wells
and a storage reservoir in the Par-
rish sector.
Mrs. W. L. Tracy, mother of Lee
Tracy, actor, attended the world
premiere of ‘Dinner At Eight” at
the Astor Theater in New York
City with mumerous celebrities of
stage and screen.
Dallas Borough School Board re-
ceived a $3,226.86 allotment - from
the state, Dallas Township, $3,972.-
16; Harvey's Lake, $3,452.50; Leh-
man, $3,749.80 and Kingston Town-
ship, $8,578.65.
Monsignor J. J. Kowalski, Wilkes
Barre, returned to his hometown of
Tunkhannock to acknowledge the
plaudits of Catholic and non Catho-
lic at a homecoming celebration
for the only Tunkhamnock mative to
become a Roman Catholic priest.
The 24th reunion of the Hoover
family was held at Harvey’s Lake.
The week's ads headlined the
film, “The Nuisance” starring Lee
Tracy at the Kingston Theatre and
Phil Gunard playing at the Fern-
brook Ballroom.
Scoutmasters John Chappell,
Morris King and former scout-
master, Elwood Swingle accom-
panied forty Dallas District Boy
Scouts om a three day camping trip
to Lake Wallenpaupack.
Luzerne County, one of the most
mountainous and most timbered in
the past has only 11 state owned
acres,
Died: O. B. DeWolfe, 62, Dallas,
succumbed following surgery at
Nesbitt Hospital.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
An expensive German camera
found in the hollow of a pine tree
on the Clarence Dymond farm along
Bowman's Creek brought the F.B.L
to join Lake police on a spy hunt.
The photographic equipment was
found to be the property of a
Kingston lad, who had forgotten
where he left it.
James R. Oliver, 55, well known
Dallas busimess leader, died at his
home following an illness.
C. J. Brown retired from Lehman
School Board after serving four
terms.
Trucksville’'s Service Flag with
100 blue stars and two of gold was
flown from the new flagpole dedi-
cated at the intersection of Harris
| Hill Road and Memorial Highway.
Dallas Township appointed five
new ‘teachers to their faculty.
C. F. Goeringer, William Powell,
Russell Houser, © Donald Yeager,
Joseph Schuler and Fay Williams
were appointed to the new raticn-
ing panel for the Dallas Area of
the OPA. :
‘Married: Anna Hardisky, Lehman
to Sgt. Anthony Hudak; Emma
Parrish, Dallas to Edward H. Miles,
Forty Fort.
Anniversaries: Mr, and Mrs. Shel-
don Drake observed their 25th
wedding date, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas
Nienius, their 30th.
Servicemen heard from: Earl H.
Williams, Savannah, Ga.; R. S.
Parsons, % Postmaster, Sam Fran-
cisco, Cal; Lt. Glenn A. Kitchen,
Fort Snelling, Minn.; Frank Maz-
nik, Springfield, Mo.; Karl Borkow-
ski, Harlingen, Texas; Ernest Carey,
% Fleet Postmaster, New York
City, N. Y.; Bud Mitchell, Fort
Mitchell, Fort Bragg, N. C.; Carl
Dykman, Greensboro, N. C.; John
Blase, Camp Hood, Texas; Joe
Woolbert, Fresno, Cal.
George Armitage hooked a big
one, a 10%, pound trout at Har-
vey’s Lake.
Mrs. Frank Morris, oldest living
resident of Dallas, celebrated her
79th birthday. .
It Happened
f0 Years Ago
Eugene Lazarus, 53, died in his
sleep at his home at Harvey's Lake
following a heart ailment.
New traffic lights installed at
Carverton Road were officially ac-
acepted by the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruggles
celebrated their 70th wedding an-
niversary.
Leo Hier, Demunds Road, was in
guarded condition at Nesbitt Hos-
pital after being struck by a horse
he was transporting. He was found
unconscious along ‘the highway near
Natona Mills.
Lehman - Jackson - Ross Jointure
produced a larger and better ath-
letic program.
Rodney Edwards, former instruc-
tor at Dallas Borough School hard-
ly recognized old landmarks when
he visited the area after a 20 year
absence,
Back Mountain Tomato packers
were anxiously scanning the sky for
evidence of rain needed badly to
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963
urday at Dallas Senior High School
This area was once part of Litch-
gent to the Town of Litchfield to be
probated, later was set up as West-
moreland County, Connecticut,
sendimg deputies to the Connecticut
Assembly at Hartford and companies
of Connecticut Militia in ‘the Revolu-
tion. Connecticut's claim was based
on an old charter reading to the
“‘western sea’. Several other colon-
ies had sililar charter boundaries.
Virginia's read, “west and north-
west” under which they claimed a
lot of land also claimed by others.
France claimed the valley of the
St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes area,
and all the Mississippi Valley, which
included western = Pennsylvania.
George Washington held a commis-
sion issued by Virginia and operated
under orders from Virginia when he
went into that area. After the
French and Indiam War the British
government - issued an order, “No
governor, or commander in chief of
our other colonies or plantations in
America do , . . grant, warrant or
survey or pass patents for lands be-
yond the heads or sources of any
of the rivers which fall into the At-
lantie Ocean from the west or north-
west”.
This would have prevented settle-
ment of all western Pennsylvania,
but the order was ignored most of
the time in all colonies. Boundary
disputes were common in almost
all of the colonies due to overlapp-
ing charters and grants, caused or-
iginally by lack of maps and know-
ledge of exact location intended.
Some went on over a hundred and
fifty years.
Penn's eastern boundary was the
Delaware River, which is mot a
straight line. “The said land to ex-
tend westward five degrees in long-
itude, to be computed from the said
eastern bounds; and the said lamds
to be bounded on the north by the
beginning of the three and fortieth
degree of northern latitude ,and on
the south, by a circle, drawn at
twelve miles distance from New
Castle, northward and westward un-
to the beginning of the fourtieth
degree of northern latitude; and
then by ‘a straight line westward to
the limits of ‘the longitude above
mentioned (five degrees)”. There
was confusion as to what was meant
by a “beginning” of a degree.
On the north Penn claimed to the
43 degree which crosses near Syra-
cuse, including a big slice of New
York, controlled by his good friend
The Duke of York. New York made
a counter claim for morthwestern
Pennsylvania. Eventually he had to
settle for the 42 degree. The west-
ern line was assumed to follow the
crooks and bends of the Delaware
but later accepted as a straight
line.
On the south the situation was
more complicated. Lord Baltimore
had a prior charter to 40 degrees
which crosses on the north side of
present Philadelphia. There was no
dispute about the location of New-
castle but a circle of twelve miles,
as specified, did not intersect the
40 degrees at all. Penn made an ex-
greement and secured a grant or
lease of the lower Delaware area,
now the State of Delaware, to be
sure he had a good port for ocean
shipping. Then he hurried to Eng-
land to try to settle the dispute and
save Philadelphia. Thomas Cresap,
of that colony, called Philadelphia
“One of the Prettyest Towns in
Maryland”. Penn was jailed in Fng-
land for religious reasons and could
not return. In 1769, long after Penn’s
death, the famous “Mason and Dix-
Ann Peterson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Peterson, Dallas,
left to take graduate study in
Stockholm.
Harry Trebilcox, talented pianist
of Trucksville, gave a benefit con-
cert for the Polio Fund, using only
one hand.
Marriages: Phyllis Shield, Fern-
brook, to Curtis Bynon, Dallas.
Kathleen Ferenbach, Trucksville, to
John Ryon, Clarksummit,
Members of Dallas Area Letter- | freshment stand for the coming foot-
men-Booster Club got together Sat- | ball season.
Shown painting the ticket booth
to paint the ticket booth and re- are, left to right: Jim Haines, George |
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
SE a a A SR A A NE NH EHNA NKS
_on’s Line” was fixed at 39 degrees
field County, Conmecticut, with wills |
43 feet 26.3 inches. What Penn cal-
led “the three lower counties on the
Delaware” become the state of Del-
aware, where they also had disputes
with Maryland and Virginia.
Virginia pressed its claim to all
western Pennsylvania. In August
1776, court was held in Augusta
Town, about three miles from pres-
ent Washington in ‘Washington
County. They set up “Yohogania
County, Virginia” and established
county offices and a courthouse
near the present town of West
Elizabeth. Many Virginia men, in-
cluding George Washington, held
large blocks of land in the area.
Near Venice, Washington owned
2813 acres and met there, personal-
ly, Sept. 20, 1784, thirteen squat-
ters, at the home of David Reed.
They refused to accept his terms
to purchase and he later started
suits of ejectment. In. August 1779,
commissioners from Pennsylvania
and Virginia: agreed to ‘extend the
Mason and Dixon Line westward to
a point computed five degrees of
longitude from the Delaware River,
with a meridan drawn northward
from that point, to form the bound-
ary between the two states. This
was confirmed by the state legis-
latures with long conditions. Most
important was one reading, in part,
“That the private property and
rights of all persons, acquired under,
founded on, or recognized by, the
laws of either country previous to
the date hereof, be saved and con-
firmed to them . . .” There were
elaborate provisions for payment
back and forth.
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
Featured Story
The story of the thirteen-day or-
deal of miners Throne and Fellin
made banner headlines all over the
northeast United States. It was
featured in the Boston amd Provi-
dence papers, and was likewise the
column eight story in all the New
York publications excepting the
Times.
The Mirror and News carried large
cover pictures and apparently self-
explanatory headlines, ala tabloid,
such as: “Drill Makes It” and “Tun-
nel, Optimism Grow!”’.
On the way back from Avoca air-
port I learned from the limousine
driver that he had recently chauf-
fered two mewspapermen from New
South Wales, Australia, who were
going to the .scene.
Freddie Cannon
Freddie Cannon, relatively popu-
lar rock 'n roll singer, amd ranked
by his manager as among the three
“big ones”, drew a crowd to Han-
son’s Monday night, and scored
pretty high with local teemagers.
I guess he was okay. Anyway, be-
tween the cordon of police thrown
around him, and the cluster of
screaming girls at the foot of the
stage, the commotion doctored his
repertoire with a special effect, sort
of like canned laughter cn, “Mr. Ed”.
It all heightens the excitement.
Anyway, Mr. Cannon has a good
stage delivery, if not a spectacular
style, and was very friendly with the
assemblage, I think they must be
able to do a lot for voice power in
recording studios, because I couldn’t
hear him a lot of the time, and you
can sure hear Freddie Cannon an
the juke box.
Reputedly, he got $600 for his
efforts out at the Lake.
Good Work
Good work should be commended.
For fifteen cents I don’t know of a
better piece of restaurant pie tham
Shelly’s in Pikes Creek gives you,
but that’s just ome man’s opinion.
THE DALLAS POST
OFFSET DEPARTMENT
Is One Of The Finest
. In Pennsylvania
Paint Stands For Grid Season
McCutcheon, Alvah Jones, Charles
Lockard, Ned Hartman, Bob Ander-
pon, Justus Letts and Dick Farley.
(Where was Carl Kaschenbach ?)
Gerrity Baby
Has Operation
Gerald “John Gerrity, six week
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ger-
rity, Sweet Valley, underwent surg-
ery -at Nesbitt Hospital on Sunday
afternoon.
The baby is comimg along well.
He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Gosart, Jr., Dallas. Mrs.
Gerrity is the former Beverly Gos-
art. Little Gerald is the couple's
first child.
New Antique Shop
Paul Coolbaugh is opening a new
antique shop alongside the one that
has been in operation for twenty
years\ near Lutes Corners. This new
venture is specializing in china and
glassware, both strong drawing cards
for collectors.
Farm Calendar
4-H Trained—Since the national
4-H Club movement began a half
century ago, nearly 23 million
American youths have takem part
in the “learn by doing” programs.
Play Safe — An electrical wiring
system is no better than its poorest
part, declares Joseph McCurdy,
Penn State extension agricultural
engineer. He urges periodic in-
spections of wiring extensions and
the original system by a qualified
person.
...Make It Easier — Labor is one
of the major costs in a poultry
enterprise, says Carl Dossin, Penn
State - extension poultry specialist.
He stresses the adoption of methods
that permit poultrymen to take!
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From—
Pillar To Post...
By Hix
The best thing about a vacation is that first night at home and
the grateful burrowing in your own blankets, in your own bed, after
a modest snack in your own kitchen.
Vacations, let us face it, are wearing, no matter how interest-
ing they are.
The speedometer reads almost 2,000 miles more than it did.
There's an unidentified rattle-under the hood, and wayside service
stations are richer by two tires worth of trade.
Part of the vacation was hot and humid, part of it trimmed
with near-icicles, depending on the latitude. Any trip that takes in
Tidewater Virginia and Canada is guaranteed to have variety.
The ferry trip across the foot of Chesapeake Bay is something
which rising generations will never experience unless Pop and Mom
take off with the kids sometime between now and next March, when
the new bridge-tunnel will be completed and, the fleet of ferry boats
will be docked.
From the deck of the ferry the spectacular structure is visible,
rising through the morning mist and dropping behind, mile after
mile, as the boat steadily plows its way from Little Creek to Cape
Charles, and the small waves slap the snub nose.
The Austin is the last car on the ferry. “It's so small, it'll fit
right here,” pronounces the guard, as he waves away a 1963 Cadillac.
There are advantages in parking and ferrying, with a tiny foreign
car. :
The bridge, with its Thimble ‘Shoals tunnel and its Baltimore
tunnel, will be over twenty-three miles long, saving a ferry-ride of
an hour and a half. What drivers will do with that extra time is
nobody’s business but theirs, but if it nets thema safe bypass of
Dismal Swamp before midnight on a trip south on the Ocean High-
way, it probably is a good thing.
Roasting on the sand at Virginia Beach for two days was a
peaceful interlude, something to brace the spirit for that hectic trek
in two cars up to Niagara Falls and over into Canada.
If you haven't been to Niagara Falls within the past thirty years,
get yourself set for a surprise.
surroundings have.
The falls haven't changed, but the
And for my money, they can disconnect those
colored lights that start playing on the Falls from the Canadian
side as .soon as it gets dark enough to show up a pink bridal veil.
The traffic is terrific, bumper to bumper, even in the middle
of the week. What it will be over the Labor Day weekend staggers
the imagination.
But it’s still one of the wonders of the world, and if the children
haven’t seen it, they should .. . .
before somebody locates a space
ship directly over the brink and starts selling pie in the sky.
steps in a day and you save a mile
a year, he claims.
Pasture Cows Carefully — Dairy-
men like lush pastures for their
dairy cows,’ but Joe Taylor, Penn
State extension: dairy specialist,
sounds a warning. The change from
winter feeding can cause mastitis.
He advises feeding some hay and
grain before cows go out to pasture
each day early in the season.
Rising Food Costs — If a farmer
gave away his wheat, consumers
would still pay 17 and a half cents
for a 20-cent loaf of bread, says
Harold Neigh, Penn State extension
consumer economics specialist.
Many things happen to food from
farm to supermarket. Consumers
like to have foods with builtin maid .
service, such as brown-and-serve
rolls, instant cake icings, whipped
cream im a can, and many others.
They pay for these services along
with the food.
Good Qualities of Wool — Wool
fibers have amazing elasticity
which enable them to stretch about
30 per cent beyond their length, yet
spring back to original measure-
ments. This means that wool gar-
ments don’t confine body move-
ment, points out Mrs. Mae Barton,
GARBAGE
The sort of “sky-line drive” over
Bunker Hill has scemery that rivals
castle country along the Rhine in
Germany.
There isn’t much of that land still
untouched by the building contrac
tor, but that which remains woodsy
hasn't had the same kind of luck
with litterbugs. :
The litterbugs are the type that
can’t resist throwing bags full of
garbage from a moving car in such
a way as to guarantee a pungent
splash.
Old Number One
Dallas old 1927 Mack fire engine,
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
Number 1, was purchased for $2,865
from the Company in that year, and
was drivem here from the factory
by ‘Jim Besecker. It still answers
calls, 3
wool is a good insulator, Also it
own weight in moisture without
feeling damp, and up to 50 per cent
ican absorb up to 30 per cemt of its
of its weight in water without begs
coming saturated.
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