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Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1889. Subscription rates: $4.00 a
year; $2.50 six months.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.,
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Mr. Jacobs then recognized the:
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— 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
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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. »
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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. ”
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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,
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in mutual funds and investment trust, and articles of agreement, etc.
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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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