SECTION A == PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 188 Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1889. Subscription rates: $4.00 a year; $2.50 six months. six months. Qut-of-State months or less. No subscriptions accepted for less than subscriptions, $4.50 a year; $3.00 six Students away from home $3.00 a term; Out-of- State $3.50. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. Roger Hackling was selected lo- | cal winner in the American Legion | Oratorical contest held recently at | ‘Dallas High School. Roger compet- | ed against other students at the | three judges, Edward Buckley, | Postmaster . of Dallas and former | Commander of the Daddow-Isaacs | ~ Roger Hackling Wins American Legion Oratorical Contest debating team High School, and George McCutch- eon, Counsellor. Roger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hacklilng, R. D. 1, Dallas | school and was selected winner by | and is a senior at Dallas High | mander of the local Legion post; com- | mander, Roger Hackling, and Ger- ald Stinson, advisor for the deba- School. He hopes to study medi- cine after graduation in June. The local winner will now com- in Dallas Senior | 9 |Community Orchestra College Misericordia announces Tuesday, February 4, as the date for the first of a number of weekly Tuesday rehearsals for the music- ians of the Community Orchestra. The time is 6:30 in the auditorium, Martin Friedman conducting. Dallas area musicians are invited to at- tend. sional eliminations, ‘ Pictured above from left to righ are: Edward Buckley, George Cave, present - post Legion Post; Gerald Stinson, fac- | pete with other students from Dis- | ting team. ulty member and edvisor to the | trict 12. District winners will be Mrs. Edwin Thompson was in- stalled as president of Dallas Ki- dinner meeting held at Trem Temple Country Club. Mrs. Franklin Gager, past presi- dent, installed all new officers for 1964. Elected officers were; pictured above left to right, Mrs. Alfred Ackerson, 1st vice presi dent; Mrs. Thomas Kreidler, 2nd vice president; Mrs. Leo Corbett, re- cording secretary; Mrs. Frank Ma- thers, III, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Ira B. Smith, treasurer. New officers were presented with pink rose corsages and Mrs. charm bracelet her services. Mrs. Mitchell Jenkins, Mrs. Mec- Cutcheon and Mrs. Franklin Gager were hostesses. Tables were lovely with pedestal arrangements of ivy and philodendron. The main table featured geraniums and spring flow- ers in pedestal vases flanked by green tapers in sterling silver can- delabra. Mrs. Thompson named the follow- ing committee chairmen for the coming year: Mrs. James Huston, chairman; Mrs. Robert Maturi, co- in recognition of George McCutcheon, retiring presi- chairman, Service; Mrs. Thomas dent, was given a sterling silver Dallas Kiwanis Women's Club Seats New Officers Kreider, Budget; Mrs. Edward Wil son, Publicity; Mrs. Merrill Faegen- burg, Housing; Mrs. George Thomas, Membership; Mrs. Ted Ruff, Wor- ship; Mrs. Sherman Harter, Cards and Flowers; Mrs. Alfred Ackerson Program; Mrs. Robert Dolbear, Em- ergency Telephone Squad. Present in addition to above Mesdames William Guyette; Vincent Roman; Joseph Burns, John A. Wil- Em- liams, Harry Pfeiffer, Leon manuel, Ernest Gay, Leo Nauroth Rice, Hazel Berti, John Henninger R. A. Crawford, Bradford Alden Robert Dolbear. Better Leighton Never by Leighton Scott told that Judge Schiffman nted on the severity of ar- a man at 4 in the morning, regarding the Burnat deer-killing case. The case is going to be appealed = de novo, meaning g complete review | of the facts, already ruled upon by Squire Leonard Harvey. There is a great deal of specula- tion now that Mr. Burnat will pre- vail over the relentless demands of the Game Commission. Thank Hea- | vens he has g little money set away, which will see him ‘through these trying times, when a fight for justice can take @ man’s every penny. Unfortunately, the common law defense of “entrapment” (when a cop eggs the perpetrator on in or- der to make an arrest) requires that I admit poaching before I can say ‘Police encouraged me’. Thus a crime will blacken Mr. Burnat’s re- cord forever, I was privileged to sit in on the hearing before’ Squire Harvey, and was impressed as lawyer Maurice | Cantor pointed out time and time | again to the unjust manner in which Mr. Burnat had been treated before and after his arrest Despite Mr. Burnat’s admission of killing several deer out of season with a .22 rimfire, transporting and selling others,. one wonders if he really did any of it. Perhaps he ad- mitted to the charges at 4 a.m. be- cause he was tired. In fact, it’s questionable whether a man of his stature and influence would be out in the [Loyalville woods at 4 in the morning. It’s ‘questionable whether anyone or anything would be out there at that time of day. Except maybe some old deer. Examining Records It is customary for newspapers not to mention the names of juv- eniles involved even in the worst crimes. When a group just runs away, mixed though they may be, ard truant to boot, the use of their | names is inexcusable. What crime have they committed ? | It might be fun to glance through the school records of those who | capitalized on the incident, both | the newsman and the official who | paw fit to give out the names. If they'll make a big public noise about some kids who run away to get married, they're likely to have | done anything. IN APPRECIATION Mrs, Dorméan Woolbert and fam- ily wish to express their heartfelt appreciation to all those who sent cards, flowers and gave assistance during their recent bereavement. Mrs. Woolbert also wishes to sincerely thank all those friends .ond neighbors who have performed many acts of kindness during the years of Mr. Woolbert’s illness. NEE EEE EE EE EEE EE FUEL OIL Call R. N | Offset Negatives Rear 29 North Main Street ANH TU MES IH Phone — Automatic Delivery — Bernard M. Novicki -— gWhner — 822-2188 4 FE 0 FC EC 5 4 EE F Grathic Arts Scrolcas Graphic Arts Services INCORPORATED PHOTO-ENGRAVING A. Davis and Platemaking Screen Prints, Art Work VA 5-2978 chosen by February 10. The winner will ‘then enter the Eastern Divi- Past Com- Paul Laux, William Wright, Helen THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1964 By The Oldtimer When we put on our pink glass- es and consider the flood of sta- tistics printed in many publica- tions and heard over the air, it makes us feel good all over. The gross national product, the official computation of all goods and ser- vices produced in the country, rose in the past ten years from a little over three hundred and fifty bil- lion to over six hundred billion dollars. The average personal in- come, per capita, fumped from a- round $1750 to $2500 in the same period. There are about seventy million now working, exceeding the wildest dreams of the economic planners only a few years ago. Ev- en corporation profits have gone up, but by no means uniformly. Some corporations are losing money. Sur- plus of food and feed is so large we can give it away or sell it to our enemies. Then we put on the dark glasses and see things pointing otherwise. Our public debt is at an all-time high and continually increasing. There are over four million unem- ployed, in spite of thirty years of government efforts to increase em- ployment. Most, of the monthly re- ports say that the cost of living is at, or at least close to, the all-time high, which has to be raised again and again. President Johnson, in his first speech in the election year, stressed that poverty is the big problem for a lot of our people, who have personal incomes of less than $1000 each, or $3000 per fam- ily. By this standard, we lived in poverty many years ourselves, and many of our acquaintances did al- so, and never knew it. Taking off all tinted glasses and restoring our regular ones, we con- clude that a lot of these statistics can be read in more than one way, and sometimes wonder if they real- ly mean much anyway. Taking the above-mentioned items in the re- verse order, we are struck with the similarity of the President’s pover- ty argument to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt when he said, in sub- stance, “ A third of our people are ill fed, ill clothed, and ill housed.” It was good election argument and worked time after time for Roose- velt. Maybe it will again, but it is a little threadbare now after Dem- ocrats have been in the White House all but eight of the last thir- ty years, and they have not cor- rected the condition. This “political poverty” is unfair to most commun- ities, including our own. The cost of living is a strong point which hits us all, and it makes us wonder if many of the favor- able rising figures, of production and income are not due to so much YMCA Board (Continued from Page 1 A) Chapin and Eric Planitzer and ex- tended his thanks to staff members, Carol Williams and Clifton King. He said the aim of the local or- ganization had been to utilize facili- ties available for the development | of its program, providing the best . | environment possible for youth, adults and family. contributions of the following: Rob- ert Hontz, Scott Alexander, Charles Wolverton, John Henninger, Jr., 3 Mr. Jacobs then recognized the: 80000305050 505050 30 50 30K 0 30 SAH SH KH HH HEH HH HER HK HN HR HLS Rambling Around — D. A. Waters additional goods and services or ad- ditional wakes after all. Some one has come up with the argument that we are getting about four dol- lars now, worth about half a dollar each, compared to one dollar we re- ceived before. But we are paying income taxes on the four dollars and not the one, and many times they do not buy more in propor- tion either. These statistics, of course, are not complete and accurate compu- tations. No one could compute ac- curately every dollars worth of pro- ducts and services produced in the country as a whole, or what every family in the country spends to live. The figures are prepared ac- cording to formulas, and the cost of living from living expenses of a surprisingly few families. I do not happen to have the figure avail- able, but it is only a few thousand families. It records expenses for food, housing, including heat, light and power and taxes and insurance, etc, clothing, transportation, med- ical care, personal care, etc. Sales of new cars last year broke all re- cords. Among the sample families if any bought new cars their trans- portation expense went up. If sam- ple families sent one or more child- ren tao college, their educational ex- pense skyrocketed. We had the sit- uation a few years ago where sub- way workers in New York got a raise. 'A fair increase raised trans- portation for the New York sample families enough to raise the cost of living index a little. Out in Detroit, the auto workers. with an escalator clause tied to the index, got a raise, caused by = raising subway workers in New York. Most frequently mentioned in~ dex, probably, is the Gross National Product, which is not really com- puted on our production of goods and services but on our expendi- tures. The theory is, that if we spend a dollar, someone produced something worth a dollar. The fig- ures represent final output at mar- ket value. For example, no atten- tion is paid to intermediate pro- cessing, but only to final product, such as an automobile. The computation is made in four categories: (1) personal consump- tion of goods, durable and non- durable, and services bought; (2) private domestic investment in res- idential and business construction; producers machinery and equip- ment, and inventory changes; (3) foreign investments: (4) govern- ment purchases, federal, state and local. , What makes it look so big is due partly to excessive government spending. and the Russell Montes. Karen Kitchen and Donald Den- nis, spoke on their experiences in the “Y” program. Ann Barnes played several delightful piano se- lections. William Cutten, president, extol- led the fine job accomplished in a few short months by Mr. Crosson, Dr. Robert Mellman, spoke of the necessity for the best facilities possi- ble for our children and suggested that the Shavertown Elementary Building would provide better quar- ters for the YMCA program. READ THE TRADING POST Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post - 30 Years Ago Elmer Kerr, health officer, re- ported sixteen cases of scarlet fev- er. James Anderson, Main Street, celebrated his 84th birthday. Lake fire company planned to set up a stove in the garage where the pumper was kept, to insure quicker starts in zero weather. Further plans to build a central fire house and police station where the truck could be housed instead if at Allen’s Mill, were discussed. Neil Henry built himself a real log cabin on a wooded hillside in Shavertown, using logs felled from the surrounding trees, some of them 40 feet long. The fireplace was con- structed of stone excavated from under the cabin. Interior partitions were of oak, with spacious rooms all on one floor. Little America Exploration Club issues maps of the Antartic, so that members could follow Commander Byrd’s expedition toward the South Pole. i Lydia E. Pinkham’s vegetable compound was going strong on the third page. Seedless raisens were 5 cents a package; flour, 12 pounds for 59 cents.; a carton of cigarettes $1.19, no tax; evaporated milk, three tall cans 17 cents. Lehigh Valley Railroad was ap- plying for permission to drop two trains from the Bowman's Creek schedule, numbers 503 and 506, the only remaining passenger trains, where once there were four. Pass- enger traffic had almost reached the vanishing point, making it too expensive to operate merely for freight, express, and mail. 20 Years Ago Sgt, Elwood Davis was stringing telephone lines, under fire in the Solomon Islands. A news story re- leased by public information ser- vice characterized the Alderson man as “kingpin of the telephone crew serving the crack Marine gunners protecting New Georgia.” Father and son, William Cairl Jr. and Clayton Cairl, Dallas were in the service, Captain Cairl, trained by Commonwealth Telephone Ser- vice was an expert in automatic e- quipment installation. Clayton was an aviation cadet at Maxwell Field. Frantz brothers sold controlling interest in the Stroudsburg Record to Edward J. Breese of Phoenix- ville. President was C. A. Frantz, Dallas National Bank; N. A. Frantz, Record publisher; secretary; S. P. Frantz, Chase, treasurer. All Back Mountain born and bred. 2 Rhoda Veitch, with the casualty branch of the Adjutant General's office in Washington, won the weekly four-star award in her de- partment for cooperation and re- sourcefulness. Clyde and Alva Eggleston took a truckload of Vernon apples to Flor- ida for sale, brought back a load of oranges. In the Outpost: Joe Urban, APO; Herbert T. Uskurait, San Francisco APO; Allen Ockenhouse, Ireland; school bus. senior class? ant horsing around. driver of a dangerous duty. Could Be More Back Mountain. chairman of Fine Arts. goal include home in Beaumont. home. Editorially Speaking: It's A Full Time Job To drive safely, a school bus driver must keep his eye on the road. He cannot be expected to monitor the pupils if he is to keep his bus out of the ditch. Driving a bus is a full time job. There must be another way of keeping order on a How about student monitors, recruited from the Smoking on school buses is not permitted in either of the two school system of the Back Mountain. smoking goes on, nonetheless, and at times some unpleas- Bus transportation is an extension of the school hours, under direction of school administration. Many parents have inquired why a teacher cannot be assigned to a busload of students, to relieve the bus A number of suitable locations here have been sug- gested, all of them with scenic beauty to recommend them. Boston Symphony Orchestra annually summers at Tanglewood, near Lenox, Massachusetts. Orchestra, founded in 1900, has to date had no summer DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA But > Than A Dream There is a chance that the Back Mountain might be considered for a summer festival for the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is seeking a place with plenty of acre- age, scenery, nearby recreational and cultural advantages, and a rustic atmosphere high in the hills, for its 107 musicians, its administrative staff, and its family units. The projected Music Festival would last for about six weeks, bringing many very desirable people to the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce is solidly back of the proposal, says Alfred Ackerson, Other residents of this area who are interested in the possible attaining of this worthwhile John Conyngham, vice president of the Chamber, and Edgar Lashford, executive. Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Farley, who make their summer And of course Philadelphia A community which is able to attract the Orchestra will automatically draw other people of the calibre which the Back Mountain is looking for, affording an impetus to business as well as culture. And to an area still smarting under the label “pocket of poverty,” providing a home for the Philadelphia Or- chestra would go a long way toward alleviating the pain. Arvilla Swan Blakney, Langley Field; Carl Dykman, Mississippi; Harry Boehme, Texas; I. Koslofsky, Portsmouth; Frank H. Billings, South Pacific; Don Brandon, Ice- land; Robert Sorber, Australia; Al- bert Landon, Sardinia; Robert Tay- lor, Iceland; Fritz Chamberlain, South Pacific; Ralph Richards, Fort Bragg; Francis Sidorek, Lawrence- ville, Illinois, Died: Sarah E. Morgan, 86, Outlet; Kimber Moore, 74, Broadway; Jo- seph C. Hawley, 70, Pikes Creek; August J. Dienstal, 82, Stull; Mrs. Rhoda Webb, 83, Noxen; Aaron Tuson, 44, Trucksville; Harry E. Thomas, 82, former farmer on the Goss place in Dallas; Mrs. Calvin Warner, 43, Trucksville; Sherman Hoyt, 57, Kunkle. 10 Years Ago Dallas Borough engineer John T. Jeter was instructed by Borough Council to see what could be done to open King Street to facilitate grading of a parking lot behind the Borough building and the bank, with" entrance past ‘the drive-in window, and exit to Norton Avenue. Removal of some unecessary build- Fox Hunt At Lake Rod And Gun Club Harveys Lake Rod and Gun Club schedules a fox hunt. on the club grounds at Alderson ‘Sunday, Febru- ary 9, starting at 9 a. m. Hunting licenses are required. Shotguns on- ly are permitted. Refreshments will be served at the club house at noon. The public is invited. ings in the rear of bank and bor- ough building were contemplated. William Clewell succeeded Stand ley Henning, deceased; as president’ | of the Kingston Township school board. » . y: n 5 Forty members. of the newly # formed Dallas Ambulance Associa- tion inspected two used ambulances on display, and first-aid classes were about to begin. Married: Elizabeth Johnson to Clayton Williams, Elinor Daron to Loren Cragle, Jr. Died: Eckley Kocher, 73, native of Ruggles; E. Ray Austin, forty years on the faculty at Laurel Run schools, brother of Arch Austin and Mrs. Clyde Eggleston, and native of Kunkle, aged 66. ” TELEPHONE COMPANY = Tax Rate Four Mills. with the Personal Property aforesaid acts. Notice To Residents Of Luzerne County LE arour ; Supe pits adde ugga ts ley oad ¢ OPF 3 Who Are Owners Of + Stocks, Bonds, Mortgages and Other Securities 1964 Personal Property Tax Returns Every resident individual, co-partnership, company or corporation, including executors, administrators, trustees and guardians, in the county of Luzerne, holding personal property taxable under various acts of the Pennsylvania Legislature is required to file return thereof to the Personal Property Tax Department between January 15th and February 15th, 1964. All mortgages owned, judgements, public loans or bonds, notes, etc. issued by corporations, shares of stock, shares in mutual funds and investment trust, and articles of agreement, etc. If you did not receive a return blank, one may be obtained at the officd of Personal Prop- erty, Room 3, Court House, Wilkes-Barre. If you are in doubt ad to the taxability of securities or other personalty held, or desire assistance in the preparation of your return, communicate Any person who willfully refuses or fails to file a Return as required by law shall be guilty of the misdemeanor and may be subject to fine or imprisonment, as set forth in the In the absence of a Return, taxes may be assessed upon estimate of holdings and security holder subjected to penalty of 12 per cent tax. 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