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Editorially Speaking:
: Why Isn't Insurance Required?
In a number of states, car insurance is required.
_ In Pennsylvania, apparently car insurance is some-
thing which you buy if you can afford it, neglect if it is
- not convenient. :
All you need in Pennsylvania is a driver's license
and a car which will pass the semi-annual inspection, to
set you rolling on the road.
In a recent case, where the father of a family was
killed in his mid-thirties by a piece of reckless driving
on the part of some young boys, no insurance company
‘stood back of the culprits, to compensate for the loss of
life.
The victim was in no way to blame. He was un-
loading his station wagon, well off the road. The car
. pinned him to his fender.
An “accident.”
The boys went scot-free. In effect, they were slapped
on the wrist and told to be more careful in the future.
Were their licenses suspended?
They were not. The boys, grinning and chortling
among themselves, tumbled out of the courtroom free as
air.
The widow went back to her home, faced with sup-
port of two little childdren.
With more and more drag-race enthusiasts en-
dangering more and more mature drivers, something ,
should be done to make public thoroughfares less
dangerous.
We might start with financial responsibility.
Insurance would not hold down accidents
Dad stiffened his backbone and laid it
Junior. .
But liability insurance would cushion the blow when
a man is struck down in the prime of life, his earning
power gone forever, the long uphill struggle to feed and
house and educate the children, still to come.
Nobody has any right to take a lethal weapon out
on the highway unless he is willing to stand back of the
consequences of a tragic accident.
One way is enough insurance.
; Because there really ARE accidents, where nobody
is to blame.
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There's nothing like the thrill of
Penns Woods Notebool:
‘seeing a beautiful bird in your
bird house, feeder, or around the
“yard. And during the winter months
Jmore than any other time people
‘take notice of these birds.
- All of our knowledge about them
shas come from bird-watching. We
have learned something of impor-
nce about birds in the world of
“wildlife, and ds we know, they help
“control insects. We have discovered
that a single kind of bird is neither
‘geod or > but they all have their
important natural place.
From bird watching we get to
know more about their food and
| thabits, and so by are able to do
more to protect those that need
help in order to survive. You your-
iself can establish a local bird re-
Huge where birds passing can stop
and rest or feed and where local
birds ‘who are here year around
Fo nest.
"In most cases, birds can feed and
care for themselves, but when
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severe storms completely cut off
their food supply, feeding efforts
are essential for them to survive.
Feeding means more than just
scattering scraps of bread around.
Find out the best way to build
feeding stations and set them near
shrubbery to give birds ghelter.
Place lumps of suet in wire contain-
ers. Small grains such as sunflow-
er seeds, hemp, and canary seed
will attract seed eaters.
I am very happy to be able to
say that I have completed counsel-
ing Ricky Edwards of Shavertown
for this wildlife management merit
badge. Ricky is a scout with Troop
231 of Shavertown. The troop is
now engaged in g Christmas Tree
project in the lot across from Sha-
vertown Methodist Church.
If you would like any questions
answered in conservation just drop
a post card or letter to PENNS
WOODS NOTEBOOK, BOX 408,
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both of us. Is something wrong?"
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Only
Yesterday
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
30 Years Ago
Civil service examinations for
managers of liquor stores through-
out the State with the end of Pro-
hibition, had 2,500 thirsty citizens
panting to get the jobs. Dallas was
not in the market. Luzerne would
be the nearest place to quench a
thirst.
Adam Kiefer, president of Dal-
las Township School Board, resigned.
Chris Eipper was elected to fill the
office.
Wardan Kunkle was reelected
president of Dallas firemen, Charles
Reigle vice president.
Shavertown Improvement Soc-
iety reelected H. M. Hall president.
First games in Rural League bas-
ketball saw Dallas beating Shaver-
town, Laketon downing Trucksville.
An editorial pointed out the wval-
ue of founding a public library in
Dallas. It was suggested that the
Dallas Borough High School Library
might form a nucleus for such a
venture. This was twelve years
before the Back Mountain Memor-
ial Library was founded .The Dallas
| Post consistently promoted the idea
of a Library until it was an accom-
plished fact.
The new Ford was on display, a
ritzy model with a V-8 engine. AND
you could get a two-door sedan for
$535; a classy coupe for $515. High-
est price was a Victoria for $610.
(FOB Detroit, natch.)
W. J. Schall, 55, died in Shaver-
town,
You could get chocolate drops,
mixed candy, or Brazil nuts for 15
cents per pound. Chuck roast was
10 cents, oranges two dozen for 29
cents,
The Lindberghs were flying back
from their trip around the world.
Their survey trip included Baffin
Bay, Greenland, England, the 'Con-
tinent, Africa, and Suth America.
Fuel researchers indicated that it
was gas, and not oil, which would
be the ultimate enemy of anthra-
cite.
20 Years Ago
The Faux Lumber mill in Orange
burned to the ground in a high
wind, as Dallas fire companies
fought to save it, and the family
carried water in buckets.
Back Mountain’s flu epidemis wag
not serious. The cases were mild,
though the disease was wide-spread.
Mrs. Celeste Prutzman got front-
page position on her 89th, birthday.
Willard Wenetzel, Alderson, sent
the radio SOS from the shattered
Flying Fortress which ditched in
the English Channel, bringing res-
cue to his crew mates.
After seeing a film on the taking
of Guadalcanal, the editor: of the
Dallas Post dipped his pen in venom
and ripped the hides off folks at
home who couldn’t find time to
rol} bandages, and commiserated
with women who had trouble find-
ing a fourth at bridge, and the
folks who couldn’t round up enough
could get to the night spots with-
out trouble. (Howard was sending
free Posts to the kids in the ser-
vice .and he was dying ‘to get into
the fray himself. He didn’t have
too much patience with folks who
bemoaned their own hardships, he’d
had so many letters from wounded
kids thousands of miles from home.)
From the Outpost: Thelma Greg-
ory, Arlington, Va.; A. C. Edwards,
Georgia; Frank Billings, Australia;
John Kunkle, California; E. H. Ev-
ans, Alaska; Edward Tutak Jr,
Kansas; James R. Bertram, Camp
Edwards; Ethel Wright, Florida;
Earl Williams, Georgia; Tommy Ev-
ans, North Africa; Lester Fiske,
Texas; Dana Campbell, Texas.
Harveys Lake froze over com-
pletely, but a high wind broke up
a little of the ice in the middle. °
Steak cost 34 cents and 8 points
a pound. Rib end pork loins cost
only 4 points —plus of course 25
cents a pound. Most sea food was
not rationed .You could get two
large loaves of bread for 17 cents.
Married: Ellen Pritchard to Harley
Misson. Naomi Rood to Richard
Holdredge.
10 Years Ago
Norti Berti headed the Ambu-
lance Association in Dallas.
A four-year old child was in-
stantly Killed when he tried to
board a moving truck. Pronounced
dead by Dr. H. A. Brown was
Richard Weaver, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Emerson Weaver, Lehman.
New Goss Manor was building
up, many new homes being con-
gas to attend family funerals, but |
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1963
The sceond schoolhouse, accord-
ing to Ryman’s History, in Dallas
Township was built after 1834 on
lands of Richard Honeywell at what
is since called Goss Corners. This
one also was used for religious and
other meetings in addition to school
purposes. A one room building was
still standing close to the intersec-
tion in my own time, probably a
replacement of the first one, used
for elections and similar activities.
poses by a white, two-story, frame
building originally having a big
room on each floor. The first floor
had been divided into two rcoms
at the time I attended there in
1905 - 06.
About the same time as the
first school at Goss Corners, there
was a school built near East Dallas
and there were schools at various
points in that area, one after an-
other, for many years. They went
by various names, one of which was
Spencer. The last one, which is still
standing, was used by Mark A. Daw-
ber for Sunday 3chool and church
services, as a result of which a
new congregation was started and
a new East Dallas Church was
built, In the meantime Mark Daw-
ber became a Methodist preacher.
A few miles northward a school
was built in early days near the res-
idence of Ransom Denmond, called
Denmon School. At one time one
nearby was called Mt. Pleasant.
This area is mow spelled Demunds
Corners. Directors built a new
school at Demunds about 1898,
much opposed by some in the
Township, who tried to stop it.
In the southern end of the
Township, on present Overbrook
Avenue, stood the Shaver School,
sometimes called Shavertown
School. This was still standing in
my time. Another at the intersec-
tion of what are now called Machell
and Reservoir Avenues was called
Hunter School, removed many years
ago.
2 school on the road to Kunkle,
on Chestnut Ridge, was called Brace
or Chestnut Hill School. It was dis-
continued a long time ago, maybe
about the time of the Civil war.
Another to the Westward, on the
road between Hays Corners and
Runkle was called West Dallas
School. There was one school in the
Alderson corner of the Township.
From—
Pillar
garage, already in common usage.
come for free, there it will remain.
It had been replaced for school pur-
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Pupils were sent to Kunkle, where
the one room school south of the
village was discontinued and a big-
ger building of two rooms subse-
quently made into three. was built
on the road from Kunkle to Alder-
son, T taught here in 1916-1917.
This building is still standing, used
for square dances and public affairs.
The natural center of the Town-
ship is in the vicinity of Goss cor-
ners and even before World War I
the school directors were congider-
ing all township schools in that
area. A few years after the war
it was done and a new school built
about 1925 approximatey on the
site of the Old Highland Hcuse
Hotel. This has received various
additions since and is now the Jun-
ior High ‘School for the Un.on Dis-
trict.
Jackson Township was another
district of one-room schools. Hunts-
ville School stood on or near the
rocks on the south side of the main
intersection mear the waterfall in
the creek. Old Troop 1, Boy Scouts
of America, sometimes held meet-
ings there about 1911. There was a
school in earlier days on the Chase
Road not far from Spring Brook
Farm. When this was replaced the
school directors built it, against
much local opposition, on the road
between Hillside and Huntsville,
since called Hillside School. When
the building was new, there hap-
pened to break out one or more
epidemics of children’s diseases.
Those who had opposed the location
of the new school prior to the con-
struction immediately put on it
the name of “The Pest House”
which is carried for decades. Just
lately this has been painted a bright
red and made into an attractive
residence. Just off the road from
Chase to route 29 stood the Rohme
School. On the road between Cease-
town and Smiths Pond once stood
the Union School. About the same
distance northeast of Ceasetown
and Smiths Pond once stood the
Union School. About the same dis-
tance northeast of Ceasetown was
located one of the several schools
hereabouts named Oakdale.
Somewhere in the area was a
school called the “Texas School”,
which I fresuently heard mentioned
in my childhood, but I have never
located it since I grew up.
To Post...
By Rix i
Cold weather always brings up happy thoughts of something
which is just crying to be invented, and that’s a piece of electrical
equipment which will start a car from inside the house, without
barging through the snow, kicking loose the frozen latch on the
door, pumping the gas pedal, using the choke, and scraping ice off
the windshield as the car warms up.
And don’t bother to tell me that the invention is an attached
I am dealing with facts, not fancies. ;
‘My car has to stand out in the weather. Tk does not appreciate
standing in the driveway, but there it is, and until attached garages
Folks give me free advice, not free garages.
They recommend lemon juice for the windshield. One person
went so far as to say that a coke poured over the ice, with the
windshield wipers in action, would do the trick of defrosting.
If I am going to pour a coke anywhere, I am going to pour it
in me instead of on the windshield, and preferably inside the house
instead of standing alongside the hood.
And then there is the school of though which recommends fit-
ting a piece of cardboard under the blades of the windshield wiper,
to discourage icing. This works fine except when a wind rises at
midnight and the protection sails into the neighboring yard.
It’s all enough to make anybody take off for Florida.
In December, it's difficult to keep the mind firmly fixed on that
first March crocus, three cold months away.
WOMAN’S CHORALE TO
SING AT MINERS BANK
Dallas ‘Chorale will appear in a
special program of Christmas music
in the Main Lobby of the Miners
National Bank, Wilkes-Barre, to-
morrow (Friday) at noon.
The Dallas women’s group is the
first in a number of choral units
scheduled to participate in the
Miners National Bank's traditional
yuletide season program in the
Wilkes-Barre city bank.
structed.
Janet Smith was elected presi-
dent of the Book Club.
Married: Clara Cundiff to Alan R.
Carney. Dorothy Meade to John
Dobson, [Shirley Finlayson to Jonah
Smith.
Died: Mrs. Rose Cragle, Hunlock
Creek, on her 87th birthday. Mrs.
Elizabeth Grail, Trucksville; Vin-
cent Shindel, ,Dallas,
Laing Coolbaugh headed the Leh-
man-Jackson-Ross jointure for the
second time.
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A seven pound, twelve ounce
daughter, Beth Ann, was born to
Mr, and Mrs. Leo Malkemes,
R. D. 1, Dallas, December 11 at
General Hospital. There is one
other child, Ricky, aged one. Mrs.
Malkemes is the former Ada Hil-
burt, Dallas. Mr. Malkemes is
serving with the U.S. Navy.
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
. What’s The Climate?
Recently received two or three
pounds of literature, mats, and pro-
motion material from the newly in-
stalled offices of the “100,000 Penn-
sylvanians for the Promotion of Eco-
nomic Growth.”
Purpose of the program is to
build “a massive year-round pro-
motional campaign” by all citizens
to “sell” Pennsylvania “as a su-
perior place in which to work, live,
visit and do business.”
That's not a bad idea; and it
shows Governor Scranton is trying
to implement his campaign plat-
form.
There’s no question but what
such a campaign, even if some let
the others carry the ball talking up
Pennsylvania at every chance, will
enjoy some success.
But there's a point after which I,
as a company planner, stop listening
to the din about business climate,
and start looking at the thermo-
meter outside. What about that five
percent sales tax, Governor?
That from a registered Republi-
can,
Not Unrecognized
It should be pointed out, as it
has gone unrecognized so far, that
the lovely Christmas tree in the
center of ‘the Borough was donated
by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Brown, Par-
rish Street.
Weather Note ;
Clip this priceless information;
it may come in handy. The Old
Farmer's Almanac says the winter
will average 37 degrees, 2.5 above
the seventy-year average, and three
degrees above last year’s living
you-know-what. The Almanac,
which is a favorite among us coun-
ten per cent on your fuel bill over
last year. Snowfall, however, is sup-
posed to be 57 inches (for Boston,
correspondingly less here), more
than last year.
From Leighton’s Young Scoundrel
Almanac, a tip: If you try to nego-
tiate Huntsville Road or Machell
Avenue after a one half inch snow-
fall ,you’d better have chains on,
or else wait for the boys to come
with the cinder truck. If nothing
seemed to work, ,and I had to get
to Lehman Avenue in a hurry,
though, I always had success by
taking a flying start at King Street
from the bank parking lot, and up
the back way.
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“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
Now In Its 73rd Year”
A non-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub-
lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant,
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania. :
We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu-
scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self-addressed,
stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be
held for more than 30 days.
When requesting a change of address subscribers are asked
to give their old as well as new address.
Allow two weeks for change of address or new subscription
{> be placed on mailing list. !
The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local
hospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it.
Unless paid for at advertising rates, we can give no assurance
that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair
for raising money will appear in a specific issue.
{Preference will in all intances be given to editorial matter which
has not previously appeared in other publications.
National display advertising rates 84c per column inch.
Transient rates 80.
Political advertising $.85, $1.10, $1.25 per inch
Preferred position additional 10c per inch. Advertising deadline
Monday 5 P.M. -
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at 85¢c per column inch.
Classified rates 5c per word. Minimum if charged $1.15.
Single copies at a rate of 10c can be obtained every Thursday
morning at the following mnewstands: Dallas — Bert's Drug Store,
Colonial Restaurant, Daring’s Market, Gosart’s Market,
Towne House Restaurant; Shavertown — Evans Drug Store, Hall's
Drug Store; Trucksville Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy;
Ietown — Cave’s Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store Kocher’s
Store; Sweet Valley — Adams Grocery; Lehman—Stolarick’s Store;
Noxen — Scouten’s Store; Shawaneses — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern-
brook — Bogdon’s Store, Bunney’s Store, Orchard Farm Restaur-
ant; Luzerne — Novak's Confectionary; Beaumont — Stone’s Grocery.
Editor and Publisher MYRA Z. RISLEY
Associate Editors—
Mgrs. T.M.B. Hicks, LeicaroN R. Scott, JR.
Social Editor ......c.... ue
Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Accounting
Advertising Manager
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Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
Po eal Doris R. MALLIN
te Mgrs. VLMa Davis
SANDRA STRAZDUS
Louise MARKS
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Dottie Gilbert Exp
Of Her African Fri
views of her dusky friends and
I. M. E.
Kimpese
Nov. 24, 1963
The Ambassador of United States
American Embassy
Leopoldville
Honorable Sir,
We thought you would like to
know that our English language
church service this morning took
the form of a memorial service for
President Kennedy.
the British pastor, Rev. Merricks,
and was attended by personnel
from the British. Isles, Holland,
Sweden and Canada, as well as
from the United States. Dr. White
read Psalms 46 and 91, and we
sang the hymn based on the latter,
“Oh God our help in ages past.” He
also read Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address and prayers by Peter Mar-
shall, and his comments stressed the
sovereignty of God, the glory and
brevity of human achievement, and
our own sinfulness as human beings
and our meed for the redeeming
power of Christ. This dreadful act
has forced so brutally upon ms the
recognition of the ‘terrible depths
of evil of which man is capable.
Prayers were offered in thanks for
Mr. Kennedy's life and leadership
and in request for the Holy Spirit's
consolation of his family and His
guidance of President Johnson and
of the nation.
The African church at Lukala
spontaneously observed a period of
silence in respect and sorrow.
The reaction of our African stu-
dents and staff was generally: “But
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WEDNESDAY is
Dottie Gilbert, missionary at Kimpese, Africa, voices the
of President Kennedy in a letter to the American Embassy
It was led by |i
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neighbors on the assassination
he was such a good and great man
and did so much for other coun-
tries! = What will happen now?
There is no one else like him is
there ” They were greatly sur-
prised and impressed when I told
them that our President’s name is
now Johnson. They could hardly
imagine an automatic passage of
power without a chaotic period of
political vacuum. As an American
had never before given
thought to, nor appreciated, those
few words in our : Constitution
which provide for this.
May we express through you, sur
official representative, our very
deep shock and sorrow and sympa-
thy for the Kennedy family.
Very gsincerely yours,
Dorothy R. Gilbert
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