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The water situation in Trucksville brings memories flooding
back of the water situation in Old Baltimore at the turn of the
century.
Residents hereubouts are thunderstruck at the idea of boiling
the drinking water.
They take a pure water supply for granted,
and considering the price they pay for delivery to the home faucet,
how right they are.
drought,
wasted.
Water is not for free, and in time of extended
such as we are going through this year, it is not to be
Unless you get it out of your own deep-drilled well, it reeks
with chlorine, and unless ice-cold, it is about as unpalatable as water
in the sulphur springs regions of the West.
We always boiled the drinking water in Baltimore.
Those were
the days when typhoid fever took its toll every summer, and oysters
fattened on polluted water during the winter months, a grisly thought,
~ but accepted as one of the laws of nature.
The drinking water probably was not wholly responsible for too
great a percentage of typhoid fever.
Unwashed fruit and vegetables,
handled by careless pickers, played a large part in spread of disease,
for at that time no health enforcement agency insisted upon cleanli-
ness.
Boiling the drinking water was something which everybody
could do.
It was a fundamental rule in our household that nobody
~ EVER took a drink of water that had not been boiled.
So maybe it was a nuisance, but everybody was used to it,
and taking a drink direct from the faucet was equivalent to grand
larceny or homicide, doubtless to be followed by handcuffs and a
term in a cell.
I was so completely indoctrinated, and so accustomed to the
sight of two steaming teakettles cooling on the brick pavement. of
the back yard, that taking an unauthorized drink was absolutely
unthinkable.
The day after I broke the rules and swallowed a glassful with-
out benefit of boiling, I spent in a daze of misery, waiting for my
hands to drop off, or my hair to turn white, or my skin to develop
symptoms of leprosy. And for several weeks I shuddered when I
dared look in the mirror.
But nothing seemed to happen, and I was cheered mightily,
though still expecting long-range results from that bit of deviltry.
I don’t remember what the occasion was, but it was a protest
pretty heavily on a small girl.
think of to do.
tears, and sniffled loudly.
~ of the crime.
drink haunted me for a long time.
freeze? What was THAT?)
probably live through the winter.
lily in my hand, THEN they'd be sorry.
It was a recurring punishment . .
of some sort against an adult world that had been bearing down
Taking a drink out of the faucet was the meanest thing T could
‘When I was laid out in a small white casket with a
I bravely blinked back
Half a minute after the glass was drained, thoughts of a casket
had not seemed anywhere nearly as appealing. After all, how could
1 enjoy the chagrin of the adult world at seeing me laid out in lav-
ender, ‘if I WASN'T GOING TO BE THERE? :
This was something that had not occurred to me at the moment
. The thought of that stolen
It kept right on haunting me until there was a thin sim of
Jee on the water in the teakettles, and Papa started experimenting
‘with various concentrations of glycerine for the car radiator. (Anti-
There was some relationship between a skim of ice, cold weather,
and the spectacular falling off in the number of new cases of typhoid.
I.drew a long breath of relief and got out my ice skates.
rd
Editorially
medical profession.
Speaking:
Two years from now, it will be as much of a disgrace
to a community to acknowledge a case of Polio, as it is
now to admit to a case of Typhoid Fever or Smallpox.
One by one, major health menaces are being con-
quered, and findings of research men implemented by the
For too many years, medical associations held that it
was up to the individual to arrange with his own physi-
cian for protective shots, but little by little public senti-
ment demanded that mass immunization be practiced,
to eradicate killers that could decimate a community.
The important thing is that disease which can be
conquered, be brought under conirel, whether by mass
movement or individual effort.
No child is admitted to school without proof of pro-
tection against Smallpox.
Infants are normally protected
by injection against Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Whooping
cough. As research broadens, more diseases are prevented
under a package deal.
Put on a purely commercial basis, physicians lose
‘nothing by going along with mass immunization.
As the span of life is lengthened by controlling child-
hood and early maturity diseases, coronaries and high
blood pressure, m:
malignancies, and symptoms of advanc-
ing age take over, all of them requiring expert treatment,
and NOT on a countywide basis.
The Back Mountain’s response to the first inoculation
with Sabin oral vaccine September 15 was terrific,
It is equally important to get the second inoculation
October 27, and the third later in the fall.
Lady Democrats Meet
Women’s Democratic Club of Lake
Township met last week at the home
of Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Grey.
~~ Hostesses were Doris Schooley and
Lorraine Grey. Mrs. Joseph Desiderio
presided.
Mrs. Frances Yonkouski was nam-
ed chairman of the annual Christ-
mas Party. Door prize was won by
~ Mrs. Walter Hennebaul.
Next meeting will be held at the
| home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Yankou-
ski the first Wednesday in Novem-
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FERNBROOK
Shavertown PTA
Reports On Fair
Shavertown PTA reported $360
profit made at their recent Fair,
Tuesday evening at a meeting of
the group.
Group also voted to purchase sil-
verware and a coffee maker.
One hundred percent membership
was reported for Mr. Goodwin's
room. Miss Sutliff's recond grade
was awarded attendance award.
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The Supreme Court decision out-
lawing the reading of The Bible in
public schools only, issued in a case
presented by individuals is new. But
only ‘the circumstances and ‘condit-
ions are new Bans on Bible reading
by unauthorized persons were com-
mon over large areas for hundreds
of years. Such prohibition was usual-
ly issued by church authorities or by
temporal political authority by re-
quest of the church. There was no
agreement then, and to some extent
there is none now,, as to just what
is included in the Bible.
, There is no such thing as an or-
iginal master copy of the Bible any-
where. It is really a collection of
books of various kinds, written sep-
arately over thousands of years. A
large number of religious writings
over the centuries are not included
in the Bible, and some copies or col-
lections included in one Bible are
not included in others, Many are
lost.
What we call the Old Testament
was written in Hebrew over hund-
reds or thousands of years and col-
lected before the time ‘of Christ.
Some lists show over fifty books.
Others combine certain books and
leave out many. Jesephus, a famous
Jewish historian, about A. D. 100
showed five books of Moses, thir-
teen books of Prophesy, and four
books of hymns and moral teaching,
combining several of the present
books now shown separately. Many
of Hebrew descent, particularly those
in foreign lands; could mot read
Hebrew and translations had al-
ready been made before Jesus’ time.
the most famous being the Greek
Septuagint made by seventy men
over a period of at- least seventy-
five years. This included fourteen
books, not commonly accepted in
the canon,since called the Apocry-
pha. Paul and others. early Christ-
ians “used the Septuagint.
The New Testament books were
written in Greek which, with the
Greek Septuagint, made a complete
Bible in Greek, the spoken language
of the Mediterranean World. But
the religion soon spread into foreign
lands, and translations were made
of all or parts in many languages.
In the meantime, early leaders quest-
ioned some books of the Apocrypha,
and threw out a lot of new writings
as not authentic.
Various translations were made
in Latin for the Church at Rome,
but these were not uniform. In 383
| AD, Pope Damasus commissioned a
priest, who knew Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew, also Aramaic, since called
St. Jerome, to revise the Latin Bible.
In 383 he wrote Pone Damasus, “You
urge me to revise the old Latin vers-
ion and as it were sit in judg-
ment on the copies of the Scriptures
which are now scattered throughout
the world”. After discussing the dif-
ficulties, he says, “Is there a man,
learned or unlearned, who will not,
when he takes the volume into his
hands, and perceives that what he
reads does not suit his settled taste,
Penns Woods
Notebook
Pennsylvania
reported that District Game Pro-
tectors have completed the stock-
ing of ringneck pheasents reared
under the Commission’s coopera-
tive pheasant chick program.
The day-old chicks are hatched
out on the Commission's Game
Farms, and then distributed to
farmers and other groups in the
program ‘to raise. They are raised
in wire covered holding pens to
twelve weeks of age at which time
are caught and are taken in bal-
anced numbers to areas open to
public hunting. They are sexed
prior to delivery, amd only male
pheasants are delivered to the co-
operators.
Roy W. Trexler, Northeast Divi-
sion Supervisor at Dallas, states
that 26,075 baby chicks were deliv-
ered farmers and other groups dur-
ing the past Spring. 24.075 raised
and stocked in the thirteen county
area which make up the North-
east Division. These countiesa re:
Bradford, Carbon, Columbia. Lack-
awanna, Luzerme, Monroe, Montour,
Northunmberland, Pike, Sullivan,
Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming.
Additional pheasants will be re-
ceived and will be stocked prior
to the open season.
If you have any questions or
would like any talks given to. a
group on conservation, send a post
card or write to: PENN’S WOODS
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1963
RN EN NNN EN NY %NXY
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
break out immediately into violent
language, and call me a forger and a
profane person for having the auda- |
city to add anything to the ancent
books, or to make any changes or
corrections ‘therein ?” Jerome knew
just what would happen. Shortly he
had to leave Rome, but finally lived
to old age in Bethlehem. His ver-
sion was opposed by many bishops
and some later Popes. Later it be-
came the Bible of all western Chris-
tendébm for over a thousand years
and is still official in the Roman
Catholic Church. And probably all
subsequent translators have exper-
ienced the same reaction as ex-
pected by Jerome.
If all later workers had pid at-
tention to «another of Jerome's
statements, much confusion and bit-
terness would have been avoided.
After listing the twenty-two accept-
ed Old Testament Books, he writes,
“Whatever is beyond these must be
reckoned as Apocrypha. Therefore
these books are not in the canon. .
The church reads them for the ed-
ification of the people.”
For hundreds of years the Bible
was read by the clergy, not the peo-
ple, particularly in those lands not
speaking Latin, and the Church op-
posed translations into the common
languages. Bible translators in Eng-
land were martyred. English Bibles
were prepared on the Continent.
And when Luther and others work-
ing from ancient Hebrew and other
sources discovered that the Apocry-
pha was not included therein, Jer-
ome’s note over a thousand years be-
fore having been forgotten or thrown
out, there was an uproar.
Since that time most objections
to Bible reading anywhere have been
by those of one set of views trying
to keep out the viewg of others, and
it has been by no means one-sided.
As a general rule, the established
or more prominent church or faction
has opposed dissenters from the of-
fical view. And dissenting sects and
individuals and some well-meaning
scholars today have,come out with
many independent versions, iclaim-
ing the old ones are inaccurate.
Either by actual changes in the
text or by differences in marginal
references, meaning is sometimes
changed.
The Rheims-Douai Catholic ver-
sion of 1610, one year before the
King James Version of 1611 basically
used by Protestants, stated in the
preface that it should not be read
by, “husbandmen, articifers, apprent-
ices, boys, girls, mistresses, maids”,
and that it was not intended for,
“table talk, alehouses, boats, barges,
and for every profane person ‘and
company.” In England as late as
1540 a proclamation was issued pro-
hibiting all private discussion of the
Bible, especially in ‘taverns and
alehouses”.
The Supreme Court did not refer
to these ancient prohibitions and
probably did not connect the public
schools with “Taverns and ale-
houses”, :
First Prize Winner
SCOTT LEFKO
A sixth grade student at Dallas
Borough High School, Scott Lefko,
was the only Back Mountain con-
testant to win the Punt, Pass and
Kick Contest, sponsored recently
by Motor Twins Inc.
The son of Mr. and Mrs, Harry
Lefko, Luzerne Avenue, Dallas, Scott
made an outstanding score, winning
first prize in the eleven year old
class.
The competition sponsored an-
nually by Ford Dealers on a nation-
wide basis was held October 5 at
Kingston High School stadium with
one hundred boys ranging from
eight to eleven years of age and
representing all schools in the wval-
ley participating.
First, second and third prizes
were awarded to each age group.
Wayne Dornsife was chairman of
the event with Al Merolla assisting.
All winners were selected by the
point system.
Scott received a handsome ath-
letic jacket like those worn by the
football pros at an official cere-
mony Friday evening before the
Kingston Swoyersville Game.
When surrounding towns submit
their final report on scores, the win-
ner will be chosen to attend a major
football game in New York or Phila-
delphia accompanied by his parents,
all expenses paid. Scott sténds a
fine chance of being the winner.
~ Sell Quickly Through
Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
' Ago In The Dallas Post
It Heppined
30 Years Ago
A four-day strike at Noxen Tan-
nery ended when 275 men returned
to work. The short-lived strike was
called when Noxen Tannery officials
refused to order five employees to
join the union, formed in January of
1933. In September, Noxen Tannery
upped wages by 32 percent, retro-
active to July, and added 75 more
men to the payroll. Arbitrators ruled
that no official had any right to force
any man to join a union, nor could
he prevent”any man from joining a
union.
Business trend was up, recovery
from the long slump beginning.
Construction of a mew bridge
across Bowman's Creek was started
. | at Noxen.
Possibility of repeal resulted in a
spate of liquor ads in New York
newspapers.
Edward F. Kotchi was writing the
sports news.
You could get four cans of baked
beans for 19 cents, and butter was
still two pounds for 49 cents. If you
bought margarine, you crushed it
down with a fork and mixed in the
coloring matter. The effect was strip-
ed, as in zebra. Bacon squares were
11 cents a pound.
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Alfred Lamoreaux was with the
famous Headhunter Squadron in the
South Pacific.
Clifford Martin performed a mercy
killing with a rifle, when a 150 pound
black bear, victim of a car crash at
Pikes Creek, broke three of its legs.
Chief. Fred Swanson investigated.
Registration for Ration Book 4
was announced, with gtamps to be
used to accompany purchase of can-
ned fruits and vegetables.
Community War Chest goal was
exceeded in the Back Mountain,
oversubscribed by $213. Quota was
$2,400.
Honor roll with 75 names was
dedicated at Northmoreland.
Top billing on the front page went
to a pix of boys about te cross a
covered bridge on their way to the
one-room schoolhouse.
From the Outpost: Gilbert Huey,
South Pacific; Glenn Loveland,
North Africa; Thomas Garrity,
Florida; Chet Dropchinski, Cal-
ifornia; Elmer Wyant, Fort Eustis;
Car] J. Dykman, Bowling Green,
Ky.; Joe Garrity, Washington,
D.C.; William Rhodes, Beaufort,
S. C; Earl Williams, Savan-
nah; Bud Mitchell, Nashville; Ben-
jamin Johnson, Camp Edwards; Ted
Schwartz, Newport, R.I.; Thomas
Reese, University of Illinois.
Married: Arline Ide to Charles
Rattigan. Laura Edhoff to (Carl
Carey. Ellen Trethway to James
Agnew.
Rev. Joseph Fiske became pastor
of Maple Grove Charge.
Evan Evans, Guadalcanal Marine,
copped the proud post of orderly
to the Colonel at Bremerton, Wash-
Ta, nosing out 85 other Marines
by being the best pressed and best
dressed in the line-up.
» Died: Mrs. Bessie Williams, 66,
Idetown. Mrs. Sarah Ashton, Cease-
town.
Adults who wanted to mask for
the Hallowe’en Parade had their
fears allayed. Yes, it was perfectly |;
legal to mask for the parade, in spite
of wartime regulations.
It Happened
{0 Years Ago
It was a fifteen year old kid who
admitted to four forcible entries at
Trucksville Poultry Mill.
‘A small weather balloon landed
in ‘Goss Manor.
Dallas Borough tax-payers staged
a rowdy session when Dallas School
directors attempted to’ re-assess
property and levy school taxes -ac-
cordingly. It was a hot session at
Dallas Borough School, with Doc
Bodycomb holding the bag, trying
against a background of hoots and
catcalls to explain that property
values were inequitable, but getting
nowhere in the face of determined
opposition. Anguished citizens, 200
of them, were up in arms. Lewis Le-
Grand, L. L. Richardson, David
Jenkins, answered questions from
the floor. A malcontent offered to
punch William Morgan, moderator,
in the nose. Dr. Budd Schooley urged
that questions be addressed to the
chair in an orderly manner.
Nobody who was present will ever
forget that might. People who were
satisfied that assessments had been
made fairly, stayed away by the
dozen. Those who objected, were
vocal, Explanations that cost of ed-
ucation had gone up, were booed
down. Everybody wanted education,
but nobody was willing to pay for
it. Tt was an illuminating session.
Devens made the high bid of $1,500
for the old Borough Building adja-
cent to his mill.
Five school districts, Monroe, Dal-
las, Franklin, Kingston Township
and Dallas Borough discussed join-
ture to ease classroom space prob-
lems. :
Daniel Nicholson, 43, Shavertown.,
was in critical condition at Nesbitt
Hosnital following a traffic accident
at the Lake. Thrown from his car
by impact with a stone wall, Nichol-
son suffered a fractured skull, was
wh not expected to live through the
Better Leighton Never
by Leighion Scott
Vote Your Baby To Sleep
While dry weather knocked hunt-
ing season for a loop, at least temp-
orarily, it only served to tighten the
knot in men’s throats when they
talked politics, forthese are autumn’s
chief concerns.
The party confabs lately have dealt
chiefly with the race, if it cam be
called that, for two school director-
ships. The Republicans, Kozemchak
and Richardson, will probably clean
house. I say that with no axe to
grind, since I was dumb enough to
forget to change my registration
from Easton and consequently don’t
fee] too involved.
In the first place, a Democrat in
the Back Mountain has about as
much chance as Mao-Tse-Tung at a
Goldwater rally. In Franklin Town-
ship last year, for example, Donald
Ayers, a Wilkes-Barre chiropractor,
won handily over Dan Flood for
Congressman, (The same was the
case, if. I remember correctly, in
three other townships.)
In the second place, your average
voter seems convinced that R & K
will effectively combat what is felt
to be the extravagant cost of school
administration (often particularized
in Dr. Mellman’s salary). “I’ve had
it up to here!”, they'll say, raising
outstretched hand to their throats,
indicating they think somebody is
getting a little too much daily bread.
Add to this the impish notion,
particularly among male voters, who
seem to be enjoying a second child-
hood, that K will “keep things hop-
ping at the board meetings”. This
idea is fostered by ‘the semi-public
image of the rigged board meeting
and secret sessions, periodically aired
by a certain newshawk who appar-
ently feels that the Post and the
Record are enough coverage for any
meeting, and that he can more ef-
fectively ferret out the truth from
his vantagepoint high in Trucksville.
(To make things a little more
exciting, T might add, the Democratic
medium which up till recently has
been backing K. enigmatically, fea-
tured Professor Farrar’s name rather
prominently for the first time last
week, indicating a change in the
wind.)
In any case, R and K are evidently
appealing to most of old time Dallas,
who say, in a wonded tone of voice:
“Why, even Wilkes-Barre doesn’t
get that”, referring to you-know-
who's salary. “Dallas doesn’t need
‘that much administration”.
This is going to be a tough line
for Professor Farrar to beat. His
chief” supvort will come from sub-
urbia Dallas, the young “split-level
set, who have not been here so long
that they say “even Wilkes-Barre”,
and who recognize Dallas for what
it is -- one of two boom areas in
Luzerne Countv (the other being
Mountaintop). Old-timers here hab-
itually seem to regard the Back |
Mountain as an inferior satellite of
the city,
They echo K’s old line about going
from house to house, and being ap-
palled at the number of houses for
sale, selling simply because of hich
taxes. “Dallas is going down the
drain”, they say.
Well, if Dallas is going down the
drain there’s a lot of darn fool build-
ers and businessmen wasting their
own money. But I think it’s more
a case of executives getting shifted,
and having to sell their homes.
(Ever tried to rent an appartment
back here? Somebody must like the
Back Mountain.)
In any case, Dr. Mellman’s bread
is going to make K’s case, and not
anything else. Opposition will come !
‘from those who are now envisioning
explaining to their kids that the
reason they can’t get into Harvard
.| is because Dallas didn’t “need that”.
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For School Board
I alse believe that everyone gets a
buck for a buck.”
g FRANCIS DIXON ’
Francis Dixon, Democrat, has re-
sided in Dallas for nearly five years
and is permanent manager in this
locality of Proctor and Gamble Unit
Sales. A graduate of Olney High
School, Philadelphia, he served in
the U. S. Army during the Korean
War. Upon discharge from the
service, he took studies at LaSalle
College adding to his college credits
obtained while in the service.
Married to the former Elsie
Richter, the couple has three chil-
“their children
dren, Christine, 11; JoAnne, 7 and
Thomas, 5. The Dixons are mem-
bers of Gate of Heaven Church and
schools.
Mr. Dixon’s territory has received
recognition as the most economical-
ly operated in the division. He
feels that the school board would
offer him an outlet where he might
best serve, well aware by inter
viewing many applicants, just what
qualifications a high school student
should possess.
He favors the best education
possible, but stresses the need for
conservative budgeting.
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