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
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Schmidt,
administrator include sweaters,
shirts, jackets, ties, gloves,
boy’s books, athletic equipment and
personal grooming articles. The boys
range in age from 8 to 18 with
most of the boys between 12 and 15.
Gifts are preferred. However, if
checks are donated, they should be
made out to “Saint Michael’s Christ-
mas Fund”. Donation boxes will be
at each location for the public's con-
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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.
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