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THANKS TO LAKE AMBULANCE
Dear Editor:
| Your editorial, week of Septem-
ber 19, was indeed most fitting. We
are a family which had the un-
fortunate experience to call upon
the Lake ambulance only a week
ago. However, the fortunate expe-
riences as you pointed out in your
editorial, the dedicated men came
and served.
Please be so kind as to express
our humble thanks to Mr. Lee Wet-
zel and Mr. Bud Anesi of Oak Hill,
who gallantly gave of their serv-
ice and delivered Mrs. Crisci safely
to the hospital in Wilkes-Barre. We
are indeed indebted to the Lake
Ambulance for this service. I sin-
cerely hope that all the people in
this area will help, so that these
fine dedicated men and women
can continue to carry on this work.
Thank you, Lake,
Michael J. Crigki, Jr.
Oak - Hill
All the ambulance associations in
the Back Mountain need support of
the areas which they protect.
Private ambulance service to a
city hospital costs a tremendous
amount. This whole Back Moun-
tain is lucky to have ambulance as-
sociations and dedicated men to
staff the ambulances.
A BOUQUET FOR AMBULANCE
Dear Editor:
Our sincerest thanks to the Dal-
las Post for offering the oppor-
tunity to our friends of keeping in-
formed on the progress of our in-
jured son.
The kindmess of people is never
truly evident until we are con-
fronted with deep trouble or dis-
aster. SPE .
If there is ever the opportunity
for the Post to boost the work of
the many ambulance crews in the
Back Mountain area, we would cer-
tainly be at the head of the list to
back you up.
Our son is still hospitalized, due
mostly to drainage after some extra
surgery last Friday. However, he
is comfortable.
Sincerely
Joseph and Mary A. Harris
First Winner Of Football Contest
“Smiling Charlie,” Dallas merchant, contest promoter, and
Back Mountain athletic booster, presents a transistor radio to the
first winner of the Gosart’s Appliances football contest, Raymond
McClary, Claude Street, a tenth grader.
~ Open to anyone, the contest’s object is to guess scores of up-
coming football games.
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Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
The new Gospel Tabernacle in
Noxen was preparing for its dedi-
cation, with Pastor Harry Rundell
making arrangements.
Politics were in the forefront of
the news, with primaries over and
the community looking forward to
election. Pinchot-Fine organization
polled pluralities in the Sixth Dis-
triet. X
Odd Fellows purchased a burial
ground at Fern Knoll.
A committee of protest was form-
ed on quantity and quality of water
available to Dallas consumers, with
A. Shindell carring the ball. B. B.
Lewis was the attorney for an ap-
pearance before the PUC in Harris-
burg.
Public ' schools of Pennsylvania
estimated cost of tuition per pupil
per year to be $85.73, approximately
one dollar less than elsewhere in
the country.
Results ‘of Free Methodist Con-
ference showed Rev. [H. M. Faulkner
assigned to Dallas; Rev. Russell
Steele to Noxen.
Harter’'s All-Star bowling team
defeated Dallas Rotary.
Pure vanilla. extract was 15 cents
a bottle, and fancy sweet potatoes
seven pounds for 19 cents. And you
could still get two pounds of butter
for 49 cents.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Robert Currie headed the
Back
Mrs.
War Chest Drive for the
Mountain.
Letters from a Monroe Township
boy who starved in a Confederate
prison at the age of 20, came to
light in an attic in Idetown. Rufus
Parrish’s letters. were lent to the
Post by Mrs. E. R. Parrish, at the
time she learned of her own son
Ted’s arrival in North Africa.
The Control Center in Dallas was
on the verge of closing because of
lack of funds.
William Misson, 70, retired stone-
mason, died at his home in Shaver-
town.
Men were to have their spot in
the sun at the Food for Freedom
Fair at Kirby Health Center, with
a special section reserved for their
canned goods.
Heard from in the Outpost: Tommy
merer, Texas; Alfred Swelgin,
Shreveport; Evan H. Evans, Puget
Sound; Robert B. Price, Africa; Ros-
well Murray, Fort Canby; Harley
Misson, Fort Canby; Elmer S. Hunt,
Memphis. Lt. Arvilla Swan left for
the service.
Married: Dana Pace to Jack Dungey.
Died: Mrs. May Thompson, 82, Al-
derson.
It Happened
[0 Years Ago
A happy Back Mountain was get-
ting ready to close the books on
daylight saving. That was in ‘the
days before they extended it to in-
clude all of October."
First frost of the season Septem-
ber 18 missed many sections en-
tirely, did little damage.
George Taylor resigned as super-
vising principal at Lake-Noxen, go-
ing to South Middleton Schools in a
similar capacity.
James C. Kibler, 47, Pikes: Creek,
died of heart attack while buying
a new car.
Sgt. John Vavrek, released from
Korean prison camp, was reluctant
to talk about his experiences upon
return to Demunds.
Evans, North Africa; A. E, Kem- :
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963
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Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer
— D. A. Waters
a a A I RN es
Almost anyone who was around
this area fifty years ago could write
a good column about Dr. Henry Mor-
ris Laing (1862-1923). Anecdotes
about him were common conversat-
ion for years. Just recently an area
woman, well along in years, told
me of an instance when their very
small son cut off part of a finger in
a lawn mower. The father grabbed
up the boy and the finger part and
hurried to Dr. Laing. The Doctor said
it was already amputated, but may-
be could be sewed on. It was very
small but finally it was sewed on.
The Doctor charged $2. Today that
boy is about fifty years old and using
finger right along.
Dr. Laing must have been brought
here by his parents Dr. James G.
Laing and Charlotte Lee Morris
Laing while a small boy. His office
contained the usual array of diplo-
mas, etc., but after seeing them for
years, T do not recall where he was
trained. He practiced for many years
in the same office as his father in
the big house on Lake Street owned
for many years by the James Oliver
family and presently occupied by
James Besecker.
There was a running debate for
years whether the father, Dr.
James G. Laing, was the better doc-
tor because of his long experience,
or whether the son rated that
standing because of his more recent
and more complete training. Com-
monly they were spoken of as, “The
Old Doctor” and ‘The New Doctor”.
This manner of address was par-
ticularly resented by his mother. Dr.
Henry Laing was married to Harriet
D. Wheeler (1869-1927), a former
nurse, who was particularly helpful
to him. In this area he was the origi-
nal of the man who was ‘Distincti-
vely Individual’, being personally
very eccentric. ;
Sometime after Mrs. Ira D. Shaver
died in 1902, Dr. Henry Laing pur-
chased the property, which is now
the Borough | Building, and after
some remodeling opened offices in
the side now occupied by the liquor
store. All that part of the present
building adjoining the bank was
added many years later. In Laing’s
time it was a nice big white house.
Our family knew Dr. Laing well.
After ill health made my father quit
as a rural carrier in 1916 (Carriers
Will Franklin and Earl Machell hav-
ing died), he worked that winter for
Doctor Laing taking care of the
horses. Dr. Laing drove one of the
first automobiles in Dallas, I believe
it was a Maxwell, but kept horses
for emergency use. Later my sister
worked there a short time. For a
couple of months before entering the
army in 1927, I served as clerk for
Local Board 5, U. S. Selective Ser-
vice, of which Dr. Laing was a mem-
ber and had offices in his house.
Mrs. Laing gave my father numerous
small articles after the Doctor's
death, including his office chair,
which is a few feet away as this is
written. '
Soon after the Doctor had open-
ed his new offices, I was seated
near the door one morning when he
came in from the residence. He
looked at me and said, “What is the
matter with you? I said, “Adenoids”,
He said, “Open your mouth wide”,
A fourteen year old Beaumont
boy was badly burned about the
face by refrigerator fluid while help-
ing the family pack for a move to
Factoryville. David Cook faced the
| possible loss of one eye.
Married: Doris Kirkendall to Ray-
mond Myers. [Patricia Galbraith to
Herbert Webster. :
Anniversary: Mr,
Frantz, fifieth. :
Died: Charles Minnick, 84, recluse
of Chase Road, on his way to the
hospital by ambulance, Harry M.
Crispell, 54, Lehman, heart attack.
William S. Lee, Trucksville.
Mrs. Albert L. Jones started work
and Mrs. Ira
as library assistant.
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and before I realized what was go-
ing on he thrust in.his long bony
finger with a big nail and removed
them. As I dashed out bleeding, he
said, “That's all” and told the next
patient to come on in the inside
office.
When I was about twelve, I broke
my left forearm in the middle of the
forenoon. The doctor did not arrive
until several hours later at which
time the arm was painful. He put me
down on a couch and pulled and
worked on the arm, finally deciding
it looked all right. But it measured
longer than the other and he said
“Not right” and started in to do it
again. I objected. Thereupon he dug
around in his second bag and came
out with a cone and a bottle of
ether. After a few whiffs I shut up.
Almost every year I had some-
the common run of colds, etc. I recall
measles, pleurisy, chicken pox, hives,
poison ivy, a badly crushed finger, a
small rupture, a bad cut under a big
toe when I stepped on something
sharp in the swimming hole at “The
Old Meadows” and a black eye.
| Shortly before his death he sent me
{ to another surgeon for a resection of
the septum. He said, “They have a
new method for that now in which
I am not qualified . I am not going
to start now, as I am too busy as it
is”.Other members of the family
had services of Dr. Laing on many
occasions, some for serious accidents
and illness.
When I was about nineteen, I went
in complaining of indigestion and
general upset. With no examination
he said, “You do not need medicine,
what you need is a pain of glasses”.
I told him I could see better without
glasses than he could with his. Said
he, “Don’t argue with me. You came
is what you are getting. Get the
glasses”. He was right.
Mrs. Laing kept him supplied with
good tailor made suits and would
send them to the cleaners, change
the weight, etc. when needed and he
would never notice the difference.
She kept his books and did most
of his routine work on the draft
board. He refushed to enter into
any social activity, and I never
heard of him taking a vacation. Al-
though his parents were active and
devout church members, he would
have nothing to do with it. He said
he had been subjected to too much
religion in his childhood. It was like
medicine, if you kept spooning it
down a child, he would turn against
it. Mrs. Loing was active in the Lad-
ies Aid Society, the Red Cross, and
other things.
Dr. Laing enjoyed a very high
‘standing in his profession and was
an exceptionally hard worker, par-
ticularly in times of epidemics.
Stationed In Korea
PFC ALBERT DENDLER
Pfc. ‘Albert Dendler, son of Mrs.
Eleanor Dendler, 72 Wellington
Avenue, has left for Korea after a
two week furlough at his home.
A graduate of Westmoreland High
School, class of 1960, the young
soldier took special training at
Camp Devens, Mass., and Fort Gor-
don, Ga. [He is serving with the
thing requiring his attention. Besides
in here for medical advice and that |’
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
HIGH COST OF LIVING
Six of one, half a dozen of the
other, I'm sure, which party it would
be, but it happened to the Republi-
cans last week. ‘At a rally-dinner at
the Country Club, good party mem-
bers, many dependent on the organ-
ization for relatively low-pay jobs,
shelled out for one or two tickets
at $50 a plate, settled back and
ordered drinks to ease the pain, and
discovered another precedent bro-
ken: Liquid is now extra.
SIRENS UNLIMITED
The Dallas curfew has been very
successful, according to Police Chief
Russell Honeywell, who told Coun-
cil recently that he had found prac-
tically no violations. It is Russ, by
the way, who pushes the siren but-
ton faithfully at, or around, 9:45
every evening.
I'll admit I felt originally that a
“get off the streets” siren was out
and out effrontery, but you get used
to it. The ones who don’t get used
to it are the volunteer firemen who
automatically vault out of their
TV chairs when they hear it go off.
EYESORE ?
Eyesore” seems to be the com-
monly used descriptive for the two
railroad station buildings these days,
and I heard it again while talking
to Herman Rapport, grovermnment's
legal expert with the GSA, who
walked around the station grounds
with me recently during site investi-
gations for the new postoffice.
It turned out that the next day
I happened to be at the Haymarket
Antique Show, Evans Falls, and saw
a painting by Graydon Mayer of the
station on a winter day, building
and a lovely box car speckled with
snow. Needless to say, it was sold,
but if it hadn't been, T would have
bought it.
It’s hard to explain, but I've
never looked at the station as an
insult to the community the way
some of my friends do. As Dan
Waters noted a while back, Dallas
and the railroad did a lot of work
together at one time, and that still
stands for something. But small com-
munities which want to grow can’t
afford to be nostalgic, I guess.
I just like old railroad stations.
BIRCH GROVE BRIDGE
Birch Grove is getting a new con-
crete bridge to replace the old wood-
en one across the creek. Part of the
many side benefits of the new high-
way. Reputed cost: $87,000. The old
bridge, which for some reason people
automatically assume is rickety, is
actually a good solid old thing, and
recently took in stride a large track-
mounted crane used for drain-work.
Hospital Auxiliary *
To Meet On Friday
First fall meeting of the Shaver-
town Branch, Nesbitt Hospital Aux-
iliary will be held Friday, October
4; at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at
1:30 p.m.
Mrs. Ella Long, Central Supply,
will be guest speaker. All members
are to bring a non perishable item
for the food basket ta be chanced
off at the Card Party. Articles for
the white elephant or old jewelry
table are also needed.
Mrs. Leon Beisel will preside.
Hostesses will be Mesdames Clara
Letts, chairman, Bertha Anderson,
Albert Armitage, H. W. Appleton,
Gordon Austin, George Bessmer,
Morgan Bevan, Helen Elston, Clar-
ence Elston, Walter Davis, George
Dodson, Harry Carson, John Cort-
right, Robert Dickenson, Edgar Brace
and Miss Margaret Brodell.
U. 8. Army in the Army Security
Agency Division.
Private Dendler, who was well
known locally for his prowess in
baseball, was active in Little League
and later played on the High School
team. He has continued participa-
tion in his favorite sport during his
tenure in the military.
He enlisted in the armed services
September, 1962, and will be sta-
tioned in Korea for twelve months.
Mr. Dendler was an X-ray tech-
nician at Schenectady prior to en-
tering the service.
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coloring of the trees.
until early October.
the edge of the smoking black-top.
in October is a mystery.
haps does not take in.
of Autumn glory.
are already strewing the ‘country
of the Atlantic seaboard.
a scale for comfort. .
nothing to relieve them.
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
To Post...
Hix
That first frost almost two weeks ago certainly speeded up the
Seldom do we have as much color as this
Remember. that year when a sudden snowfall caught the trees
by surprise and the: ground. splashed with crimson maple leaves?
An artist immortalized the lovely accident in a picture of crisp sng
splashed with red and yellow, maple trees shuddering against a b
sky, and a soft promise of Indian Summer in the snow melting along
It's the first sign of color, that completely unexpected splash
of red or yellow against the green, that makes me draw a startled
breath each fall. The first coloring is like the first crocus, a treasure.
“Later, the hills are almost too lovely. There is too lavish a dis-
play, a surfeit of beauty, more than the eye can compass.
Why anybody travels to New England to admire the hard maples
The hills of home are equally beautiful.
Travel these roads day after day from early spring until the
leaves turn, and you note something which a casual motorist per-
In the early spring there is a pastel promise of the fall, muted
red at the tops of the maple trees, smoky yellow, al purplish haze
anticipating the purple hills of Indian Summer, a delicate preview
The pageant is well under way. Silent golden showers of leaves
roads. At Pikes Creek there is a
maple which is worth a ten-mile trip to see, and at Harveys Lake
the still water reflects the glory of the surrounding trees.
This is what people who move from the East to the Pacific Coast
long to see, hard maples against abackdrop of evergreen, the badge
Pacific Northwest scenery is hard to live with. When Mt.
Rainier goes on parade, it is too staggering a sight reflected in Lake
Washington. Usually it is veiled in mist, with its snow-capped peak
" floating high above the earth, catching the last rays of the sinking
sun, long after darkness has crept across the lowlands, detached
from earth, isolated in its encompassing cold.
Trees are too big. The whole Pacific Northwest is on too vast
And there is little fall coloring. The firs dominate the mountain
slopes, and the tops of the treeshundreds of feet below as the high-
way winds over ‘Snoqualmie Pass, up and up to the snowline and
down again into a different world, are green the year round, with
Pennsylvania hills are easy to live with. No snowcapped peaks,
no glaciers. Pastures of brilliant green cut out of the flaming hills
with a pair of scissors, mathematically exact.
Cattle gathered at the bars or crossing the highway to the barn
as cars obediently wait.
the air.
to the full.
There is nothing quite like Pennsylvania in the fall.
Golden corn and orange pumpkins, sunshine and shadow . . .
* the black and white days are here again, and winter is already in
Savor it
Baer Reunion Is
Held At Ide Home
First annual Reunion of the Wil-
liam Edward Baer family was held
at the home of Gilbert Ide, Idetown
on Labor Day.
Officers elected for the coming
year were Ernest Baer, president;
Gilbert Ide, vice president; Mildred
Thomas, secretary; «Mary Booth
treasurer; Helen Hoover, games and
program chairman.
Prizes were awarded to Edith
Boice, oldest woman; Jesse Boice,
oldest man; Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Boice;
oldest couple; Mr. and Mrs. David
Ide, youngest married couple; Mich-
elle Walker, youngest child; Mr. and
Mrs. Galen Walker and family came
258 miles and traveled longest dis-
tance; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Booth, lar-
gest family presemt.
Reunion will be held again next
year at the Gilbert Ide home on
Labor Day.
Present out of 119 members were
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Booth, Nancy,
David, Ireme, Martha, James; Mrs.
Audrey Booth, Cassville Pa.; Mr.
and Mrs. Galen Walker, Kevin,
Michelle, Maryland; Mr. and Mrs.
Ernest Baer, Edward Baer, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Mills, Debbie and
Kathie Johnson City. N.Y.; Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Boice, Buffalo; Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Hughes, Jeanne amd Cyn-
thia, Kingston; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Meadway and Jay, Vesta N.Y.; Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Boice, Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. David
Ide and Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Gil-
bert Ide and Rita; Mrs. Russell Spen-
cer Mrs. John Paul, Judy and Jane
Two Local Girls Are
“University Scholars"
Designated among 52 Susquehan-
na University students as “Univer-
sity Scholars,” are two local girls,
Marilyn E. Eck, and Nancy Lou
Elston. Miss Eck, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Eck, Shavertown,
and Miss Elston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond J. Elston,
Shady Side, are both liberal arts
majors in the sophomore class.
Drops Power Rate
James Brownlee, vice president of
cently announced reduction in -elect-
ric rates for home and water heating,
outdoor lighting, and reduction in
the last step of general residential
rate from 1.8 to 1.5 ‘cents per kwh.
U.G.I, Luzerme Electric Division, re-| |
Hall's Has Exclusive
Russell Stover Agency
One of six stores in Luzerne
County to be granted an agency for
famous Russell Stover Candies,
Hall's Pharmacy, Shavertown,
celebrating the good fortune by in-
viting the public to stop in and ask
The
for a sample ‘taste treat.”
Back Mountain is also fortunate to
have been chosen by the Russell
Stover Candy Co. as a location for
their especially delicious candies.
John Fedock and Roy Elliott, pro-
prietors of Hall's Pharmacy ‘are
anxious that the public be made
aware of the large variety, and that
the policy is very rigid that candies
be kept fresh at all times.
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