EECTION A — PAGE 2 In the government of the United States, there President named Johnson who be- game an accidental president, ~ they are called when they step into Two Presidents Named fohneon by MRS. CHARLES HIGGS was another Vice as | had succeeded keep their party in control, to pun- ish the South, and to profit by the war. Johnson's ehemies in Congress they might have ‘the office because of the death of + a president, as did Lyndon Johnson. ; When Abraham Lincoln was as- ~ sassinated, Andrew Johnson became our seventeenth president. He, also, was a southern Democrat and a Senator. When he took office he also had to deal with some of the “most difficult problems ‘that have = faced an American President. Andrew Johnson tried to carry gahrough Lincoln’s plan for a kind “and generous treatment of the south- Sern states. But Congress was dom- inated by the Republicans at the changed the entire system of gov- ernment of the United States. The president might have become a fig- urehead with no real power. Andrew Johnson was = honest, brave, and very intelligent, but he lacked Lincoln's skill in getting men of opposing views to work together. His fine traits were not appreciated until after his administration was over. John F. Kennedy's intelligence, love of humanity, and his hopes for our country to help make a better world may be appreciated now, af- ter his death, but he will never time, and they were determined to know. ‘DeeDee Pope On Statewide Panel Delegates Diverse : In Career Enterest r “ting panel i in Scranton over the weekend. “' Dee Dee Pope, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Merle Pope, 95 War- p Tden Avenue, Trucksville, represent- ; wed “Candy Stripers” TBarre area at the conference, which had delegates from all over the In Mediterranean ~ » One of the most active young ®adies at Dallas High ISchool, «cently honored by being crowned | "Queen of the Dallas Rotary Fair, was further honored by participa- on a four- Pstate, ® Purpose of the Y-Teen panel was re= member Y-Teen in the Wilkes- PFC John A. Nekrasz to help girls pick a career, and Dee “Dee was joined in the discussion "by a former foreign exchange stu- wdent, a Greek student at Wilkes «College, and an all-round top stu- "dent from [Scranton who once Lidanced with the Rockettes in Radio FCity. Ee Dee Dee has been on student "*Council in Junior and Senior High Schools, a majorette in both schools, her senior Private First Class John A. Nek- rasz, Jr., son of John A. Nekrasz, Sr., 52 Monroe Avenue, Dallas, is serving with the Third Battalion, Second Marine Regiment, 2nd Mar- ine Division of the Fleet Marine Force, currently deployed in the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet. reporter for Dallas School news in the Post. High tvand head majorette Jor She is a member of School ‘horus, has been three years on ‘nthe Keyettes Drill Team and Treas- Having done volunteer work as a Candy Striper at General Hospital for the last four years, this accom- eurer of Keyette Service Club Jun- ; ior and Senior years. Dee Dee was “student director of the Junior Class plished young lady will enter Al- lentown Hospital School of Nursing next Fall, and then, perhaps may gr and now serves as student join a branch of the armed forces. ii iii int HOLIDAY FALL At Sale Prices Juniors (7-15) Misses (10-20) Halfs (14,-247,) Why Pay 30% MORE? ? BROCADES WOOLS DOUBLE KNITS CHIFFONS ONLY AT IBACHIMAN'S 460 N. MAIN STREET WILKES-BARRE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 ER 2 MERCHANDISE aH A WEEE “HALLMARK CARDS WRAPPINGS RIBBONS UNUSUAL NEW WRAPPING PAPERS TRIMS Gift — DECORATIONS IN OUR Wrapping SECTION BACK MT. LUMBER & COAL CO. MAIN HIGHWAY Shavertown REET EE TEETER EE PEE iw 4 AR = 14 EET WRR EER x rE Tre SRR AYRE, 4 Ce - WIN al AE: V 25 GAL. GULFTANE GAS y A COMPLETE OIL CHANGE V. COMPLETE LUBRICATION GET A TICKET FOR EACH 5 GALLONS GAS or Mechanical Work of same am’t. HARRY WESLEY'S GULF SERVICE MEMORIAL HIGHWAY — DALLAS 674-9551 Drawing Every Saturday Night CRRA EER RRRERNRARRRORE Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago Prohibition was repealed after a drought of fourteen years, and the State was preparing to go into the liquor store business with the first of the year. A seventy-five year old Wilkes- Barre man was found dead in his farmhouse in Dallas Township af- ter he had been missing for three days. James A. Ruppert died of a heart attack. Construction of an eighteen foot roadway on Cemetery Street was approved by PWA in Harrisburg, the first Pubic Works project for this area. Shel Evans’ grandfather, David H. Evans, died aged 89 in Ashley. John E. Roberts headed the Dal- las Borough school board; Earl Newhart the Kingston Township board. Football coaches Walter Hicks, Donald Kester, Lester Squier and Homer Nelson named grid stars for a mythical Back Mountain football team: C. LaBar, captain; Matuskow- itz, Lavelle Brown, Brace, Yorks, Schuler, Bellas, Disque, Riddle. R. Disque. Others who received votes included Loveland ‘and Ryman, Kingston Township; ‘Calkins, Disque, Rusilowski, Lehman Township; H. Hislop and Matukitus, Dallas Bor- ough. Metzger, Kingston Township, was out of the running because of being out of the game on account of injuries. A still with gallons of moonshine and kegs of mash was raided at Harveys Lake. Chief Ira Stevens in- vestigated. Died: Mrs. Adam Kiefer, Shrine View . Eggs were 23 cents a dozen, Chuck Roast 12, cents a pound, coffee 15 cents a pound. It was a whopping big issue, with fourteen pages and nice stories a- bout all the advertisers. 20 Years Ago William Monk was killed, and James Keiper, Ollie Mason and George Bellas injured seriously when a coal truck collided with home-made bus as they were on their way to their work in Berwick with seven other Back Mountain men. Monk was thrown out, striking ‘a ledge of rock. Corey Miers Perrin, 15, Shaver- town, died following an appendec- tomy. Twelve cows and a team of hor- ses were saved from a fiery death in the loss of a large barn in Kunkle, but much valuable machinery and a tr.mendous quantity of hay were burned. Police were investigating the stab- bing of a Loyalville man during a brawl centered about the affec- tions of Barefoot Annie at Sunset. Heard from in the Outpost: War- ren Hicks, flying over India; Richard Williams, New York APO; Donald Mission, Tennessee; Robert Nie- myer, Florida; Estella Prushko, Den- ver; Tommy Evans, on the desert; paratrooper Ralph Antrim, South I Herb Updyke, Camp Ea- wards; Chic Casterline, Nashville; Alfred A. Hoyt, Fleet; Albert Cris- pell, Camp Davis; Amandus Dalley, India. Married: Julia Chamberlain to Ralph Richards. Marjorie Brown to Hiram Sorber. Alva Taylor, Beaumont, sewed the sixth star to his service flag with enlistment of Alva, Jr. Food ration stamps necessary for almost any grocery purchase. COAL ON 24-HOUR SERVICE BACK MT. LUMBER & COAL Company 674-1441 “THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 12, 1963 On the upper Allegheny a word frequently encountered is ‘‘Corn- planter”. In a single day we found it as naming a stream, a township, a district in the National Forest, a white man’s town, and an Indian Reservation. Cornplanter, born about 1750 (some say 1732) on the Genessee River, died 1836, was a half-breed Seneca IIndian. His father was John Abeel (0O’Bail), a Dutch trader. His mother was a Seneca woman of chiefly lineage. Since the Iroquois had a matriarchal society, his mo- ther’s standing made: him a per- son of importance. He was a nep- hew of Guyasuta, who accompan- ied Washington to Fort LeBoeuf, and a half brother of Handsome Lake, founder of an Iroquois relig- ious movement. He became head man of the town of his birth, Gan- awaugus, now Avon, N. Y. Later he lived at Jenushadego, Cornplanter’s Town, on the west side of the Al- legheny, a few miles south of the New York State line. He followed Guyasta as Half King of the Al- legheny-Ohio Indians. In 1790 he said, “In the Seneca Nation the women have as much to say in the council as the men have, and in all important busi- ness have equal authority.” During the revolution ‘he went with the British, but after the war tried to keep peace with the new United States, At the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1784 he had been informed that the Great King over the water had given all the country to the thir- teen fires (The United States) and it no longer belonged to the Indians. In 1974 he informed U. S. Com- missioners, “The Great Spirit above had planted our ancestors on this ground, and that those now living of the Indians grew up out of it, and that it belonged ‘to' them; that if the King had given the country away (which was a thing they could not comprehend) he had given that which did not belong to him, and that he must have stolen the right of the Country from them. When the Indian wars broke out in Ohio, Cornplanter kept the Iro- quois out of it, which greatly helped the Americans, as several armies were defeated by the Ohio Indians. President George Washington and Gov. Thomas Mifflin of Pa. and others gave him presents, including a sword. He visited Philadelphia in 1790, and 1791 the Pa. State legislature granted to him and his heirs “in perpetuity” three tracts of and on the ft these near e sold to Wilkins, Jr. In 1818 he sold a sec- ond tralt, now Oil City, for which he received payment in worthless money and notes. The third tract, about 600 acres, is still held by his descendants but will be flooded by the new Kinzua Dam. esent ‘West Hickory per Allegheny. One 1 his friend Gen. John| Rambling Around By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters EE RAN NNN CH ENE E RHE NRHN RERENSS Paul A. W. Wallace in “Indians In. Pennsylvania” says,’ (‘Corn- planter was an Indian patriot of the best kind. He was generous, forward-looking, constructive. In 1798 he brought in Quaker teachers, established schools, made roads, built gond houses, developed agri- culture, bred large herds of cattle, and, in a word, turned the Corn- planter grant into a model commun- ity. In his later years he became disillusioned with white men, closed the schools, broke his sword, and destroyed all other gifts received from white friends such as George Washington and Thomas Mifflin.” His grave in the cemetery on the grant is marked by a monument. Cornplanter and Handsome Lake were strong advocates of ‘temper- ance, condemning strong liquor. Today most of the houses on the grant are gone .One young man to whom we spoke briefly was repair- ing an automobile. A two-story house was falling into ruins] and abandoned. An adjoining wood- en church appeared to be still in use, a little neglected as to paint, ete. The white man’s town of Corn- planter, Pa. is east of the river, there being no bridge. Archaeologi- cal excavations nearby have reveal- ed three burial mounds, a village site and implements of daily life, supposed to date back to 900 to 1300 A. D. This also will be flooded by the Kinzua Dam. Besides the Cornpanter Grant in Pennsylvania, the flood waters will cover some or all of ‘the Seneca Reservation along the Allegeny State Park. This land was guaranteed to the Senecas forever by treaty in 1794, in which Cornplanter parti- cipated, one of the U. S. represen- tatives being no less than Timothy Pickering, locally famous, then a member of Washington’s cabinet. The 1794 Treaty was approved by Washington and submitted to and ratified by the Senate. But the New Dealers and New Frontiersmen cannot be restrained by such small matters as keeping faith with dead presidents, dead cabinet members, dead Indian Chiefs, and written treaties. Today, Indians on the Seneca re- servation bear no resemblance to the movie and TV characters. We saw two drinking cokes, one dress- ed about like any white boy of comparable age carrying a good looking rod with spinning reel. The other, a little older, had his pants pressed, a clean white shirt, and otherwise appeared like an older white teenager, readinda paperback. Mrs. Carlton Reed, who grew up fat Kinzua, recalls that reservation Indians went to town for liquor, none being sold on the reservation, and returned home yelling old war whoops, scaring the children. Some- times they would be found drunk in farm barns. : 10 Years Ago Staney Henning headed Kings- ton Township school board. Wilfred Ide was elected president of Lake-Noxen school board. Fernbrook Mill installed six new looms. Robert Fleming moderated a meet- ing to discuss the possibility of forming a Dallas Ambulance Assc- ciation. Three brothers from Meeker, Don- ald, Richard and Edwin King, were successful the first day of deer sea- son. Married: Doris Hazeltine to Leo- nard Stoner. Anna M. Space to Carl Smith. Dorothy Schooley to Harry Smith. Died: Mrs. Henrietta Miller, 89, Shavertown. Oscar Osmun, 66, Sha- vertown. Your Health It wasn’t the injury in the acci- dent that killed him. : iw It was the well-intentioned but rough handling after the mishap, that caused his death. * ok F Spinal cord injuries call for ex- treme caution in moving the victim. * * * The spinal cord is a delicate part of the nervous system, and if there is any damage to it as inan acci- dent, bending the spine is likely to add to the injury, and may cause instant death. * * * The spinal cord is lodged within the spinal cavity. sixty- Presbyterians (Continued from Page 1A) Col, Oscar L. ‘Cummins. Team “C” « William W. Lawson and Bradford Alden. Team “D” - LeRoy D. Roberts and Howard H. Patton. Section — Dallas East, Idetown, Oak Hill, Harveys Lake. Telephone Captain - Dr. Warren Koehl, Assis- tant - Ronald A. Miller. Team “A” - Campaigners: Thomas B. Bobo Sr., George H. Hamm. Team ‘“B” - Edward Wroblewski, John A. Dungey. Team “C” - Paul Hentitzy, Ray Turner, Jr. Team “D” - Lionel Bulford, Fred- erick Weiss. x Section — Dallas West. Telephone Captain = Archer E. Mohr, Assist- ant - Ron Woolcock. Team “A” - Campaigners: C. D. Sutherland, Jack Barnes. Team “B” - Richard Bodycomb, Paul Heitzenrater. Team “C” - John Marsh, Ted Davis. Team “D” - Lt. James Farrell, Clifford D. Troup. William G. Cooper, General Cam- paign Chairman, urged those pres- ent to make every effort to attend the final training session December 13th. “We can go forward with great power, ifwe all will it so.” The spine, known as the verte- brae, consists of a number of separate bones, each ' having a vertical opening through the cen- ter. x % ® These openings in the bones, one above the other, form a series of spaces through which the spinal cord extends, connecting at the top with the brain. I ._, ,,,.HAA ~ MAIN HIGHWAY WE HAVE IT! KODAK INSTAMATIC CAMERA OUTFIT KODAPAK FILM CARTRIDGE LOADS INSTANTLY AUTOMATICALLY GOOD PICTURES SO EASY INCLUDES: FLASH ATTACHMENT BULBS & BATTERIES AND FILM $15.95 EVANS DRUG, STORE SHAVERTOWM. meee Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott People beginning to ask me if I have ice skates for sale. No, I don’t have ice skates for sale try your sporting goods store. And if I were you I'd stay off of the ice for a while, or you're likely to be em- barrassed. I met a physician in Philadelphia last week who said right off that he remembered Dallas as being very beautiful. After he had come up here from the Valley, he said, “It’s like being in another world.” Lots of jokes about deer-meat floating around the Loyalville-Lake area. Terrible, the way company loves misery. Once upon a ‘time last year, the state projected to pave Main Street the following season. Whatever happened to that idea? Behind the scenes: Hammering, pounding and painting inside the Lundy Building on Main Street. Mike Kozick is in there finishing off work on the bar, ready to start on the kitchen. Dave Evans is turning Polly's into a variety store, mean- while, Mike's kitchen, when reno- vated, will be the third operating on Main Strett, and the fifth in Dal- las proper. Bill Phillips’ now fea- tures Helen Ide’s cooking over the weekent. Fish Commission signs have dis- appeared three times now from Bryant's Pond, says Burt Bryant. Just as long as it ain't the fish. Lake tax collector Cal McHose ran into a state official who remarked he had never seen books kept so meticulously as those the late Otto Biery ran for the township. Congratulations to: John Bromin- ski, named to the Independent’s All- Scholastic football team: also to Tom XKerpovich of Dallas and Don Rittenhouse, Alan Landis ,and Jim Worth, Lake-Lehman, for WSC hon- ors. : Association The Penna. Press draws our attention to these (among many) promotable opportunities: January is “Break-A-Cold Month”, “No Smoking Month”, and teamed with February, “Thrifty Meal Mates Month”. January 1 is “International Take- a-deep-Breath Day.” January 5-12 is ‘“/Save-the-pun Week”, and the 30th through Feb- ruary 8 will be “National Kraut and Frank Week”. Gives you pause, doesn't it Oh well, at least we're getting a drain in the great Shavertown marsh. Pennsylvania Gas Asks Gifts For Boys Pennsylvania Gas and Water Company has an attractively decor- ted Christmas tree at its main of- fice, 41 North Main Street, Wilkes- Barre, in honor of Saint Michael's School for Boys, Hoban Heights, and is soliciting the general public for Christmas gifts for the' boys. The public is invited to place a Christmas gift for one of the boys under the tree, or if it is inconven- jent to make a visit, the gift may be delivered to be placed under the tree. Gift suggestions as recommended by Monsignor Francis A. 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SANDRA STRAZDUS : Advertising: Manager ................ Louse MARKS From— Pillar To Post... | © By Hix > ¥ TR ¥ Dear Santa Claus; (Thoughts on Christmas after reading the gift sheila) = Things I do not want for Christmas: j A trick can-opener. I got a very nice one at the Library Auction, Odds and Ends booth some years ago. : ; A cordless electric toothbrush. With the passage of the years, and the consequent infirmities of advancing age, I do not need a cordless electric toothbrush, or even an electric toothbrush with a cord. For the matter of that, I don’t need a toothbrush, period. Nor an oscillating sanding. machine with free sandpaper. Omit the nut-picks, too. And while we're on the subject, skip the chip-and-dip set with the ivory handles, and likewise the revolving Lazy Susan. This year, I won't need that bicycle. Last time I ‘mounted a’ wheel and started to back-pedal to control the speed going down a hill, the thing went into coasting gear. How was I to know that it had a brake? It was a shattering experience, and it caused my grandchildren a great deal of wicked amusement. / I won't be climbing the spruce tree to adjust outdoor lighting, either, so forget the fifteen-light outfit with the weatherproofed bulbs. (Not that I couldn’t climb the tree. It's just that I den’t consider it appropriate.) 3 And this year I'll pass up that aluminum tree. Somehow, I like the pungent smell of balsam. ; As for the bathroom scales, one pair is enough, and sufficiently discouraging. And for pity’s sake, lay off on the candy, especially the kind with soft butter cream inside and deep rich chocolate outside. It is too much to ask anybody Siting 1 in front of T-V to let that sort of stuff alone. 2 Save the nut-centered chocolates for soTfetody who woldhs 98 pounds wringing wet. - 4 : If you're simply determined to give me . something i in spite of all these detour signs, make it a pink geranium, or a half dozen narcissus bulbs, or a bushel of apples. Or a slice of deer meat. 3 Give the mink coat to somebody else, and leave me my Wool- rich jacket. i Strictly utilitarian, that’s me. Pocket Watches | x . WESTCLOX '® Shock Proof ® Anti-Magnetic '® Rugged Dependability ® For Active People : > only Y $3.95 ! Alarm Clocks By : 5 : : WeEstgiex ® Made by Makers of BIG BEN only Li ® EASY TO READ DIAL : $3.98 EVANS = ¢ DRUG STORE 1 MAIN HIGHWAY SHAVERTOWN 674-3888 CN So omar
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