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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964
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Editor and Publisher
Associate Editors—
Mgrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Leigaron R. Scorrt, JR.
MyRA Z. RISLEY
Social Editor .............. Mgrs, DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
Advertising. Manager -................ Louise MARKS
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Editorially Speaking
- Red Cross Month Proclaimed
March has been proclaimed RED CROSS MONTH
by President Lyndon B. Johnson. In signing the procla-
mation, President Johnson said: “Within our own county,
Red Cross touches the lives of millions of families every
year, with its health and emergency welfare programs.
Throughout the world, some 160 million people serve
under the Red Cross banner. All of us, therefore, have
a mutual responsibility, to our nation and to the world,
to stand behind the Red Cross in its continuing mission
of mercy.” :
Wyoming Valley Chapter, now in its 47th year, car-
ries on the tradition of Red Cross in providing us with
First Aid and Home Nursing courses, complete Disaster
service, Home Service to servicemen and veterans and
their families, a blood collection program, Water Safety
services, youth programs in schools and colleges, and
niany other volunteer supporting services.
As a member agency of the Wyoming Valley United
Fund, your local Chapter takes advantage of ‘Red Cross
Month to say thank you to all who contributed to the
United Fund last October. Red Cross is Al Th
With Your Help. oss 1s Always There—
Train Them To Toe In
or When your small children watch T-V, how do they
sit?
There is a growing problem of toeing-in among the
youngsters.
A great many children sit with their feet behind
them, their toes turned in, and the weight of the body
on them. ;
g A dancing instructor reports that each new registra-
tion shows more small children with foot defects, most
of them toeing-in, a condition which interferes with
normal coordination and correct leg movements. Danc-
ing is exceptionally good exercise for youngsters, combin-
ing fun with building of muscles, more enjoyable than
setting-up exercises or routine gym work, and with grace
and balance as an end result.
The benefits are cancelled out if a child must struggle
with poor foot structure. Children are ashamed of being
clumsy.
It would seem plain commonsense to see that chil-
dren sit properly in front of the T-V. If they sit on a
cushion with the knees drawn up that’s fine. Or a low.
stool or a small rocker. They should not sit with their
feet behind them. :
Have a look at Johnnie and Susie, and see if they
are laying the foundation for later trouble by training
their feet to toe in.
It is as important for boys as for girls, because they'll
want to go out for Little League Baseball, and tripping
over their own feet is no asset on the team.
Distinguished Visitor At Red Rock
Col. J. A. (Carey, Vice Commander | ment.
of the Boston Air Defense Sector| Lt. Richard M. Cohen of RED
visited. RED ROCK Air Station this| ROCK Air Station and Col. J. A.
past week, The purpose of his visit | Carey, Vice Commander of BOADS,
was to observe radar operations and |pause to examine equipment during
| laughing
30 Years Ago
Most perishable items in the Dal-
las A & P store were frozen, as well
as many water lines, when the
temperature dropped to —30. It was
—40 at Pikes Creek.
Homer R. Mallow anounced plans
for a seaplane dock at Harvey's
Lake. He hoped to provide regular
service to dJexsey City. The dock
would also, serve the steamers on
the Lake.
College Misericordia had 213 stu-
dents.
Charles Jennings found a bullfrog,
alive and kicking, in his spring, with
the temperature at zero.
Junior girls at Dallas Township
school raised money to pay for the
doll used in their child care claps
by making aprons and children’s
dresses for 25 cents, women's house
dresses for 50 cents.
The State offered to send a fire
inspector and .equipment to help
anyone wishing to burn over land
to improve huckleberry patches.
Bath towels were on sale for 18
cents each; ladies’ hosiery, 3 pair
for $1.85; two bottles vinegar for
15 cents. ; $
Died: Mrs. Elisabeth Metscavage,
60, found dead in the snow near
her home, RD 1, Alderson; Mrs.
Jacob Harris, Alderson.
Fire destroyed a barn at Goering-
er’s farm, Orange.
20 Years Ago
Lehman Township girls basket-
ball team ended an undefeated sea-
son to win their first championship
since 1937.
Lehman boys team ended a two-
year ‘losing streak by defeating
Benton. Their coach is Principal
Howard Hendricks.
Mrs. 4. C. Fleming requested
sewing machines of any type, for
use in the Red Cross workshop.
A WAC recruiting booth was
planned for Dallas.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Warner cele-
brated their 25th wedding anniver-
sary. . N
A flock of pine grosbeaks landed
in Frank Jackson's pine trees.
In the Outpost: Robert Wallace,
Italy; Ted Schwartz, at Sea; Frank
Billings, c/o Postmaster, San Fran-
cisco; Tommy Evans, Italy; Herman
Brislin, North ‘Africa; Robert Mont-
ross, England; Joe Lyne, Camp
Pickett, Va.; Glen E. Moore, Fort
Bragg, N. C.; Robert Polar, Los
Angeles; Bill Carroll, Truax Field,
Wisc.; Edward Fielding, Camp
Blanding, Fla.; Larry Yeager, Rob-
bins Field, Ga.; Ed Tutak, Delaware,
Ohio; Kenneth Kocher, Schreveport,
La.
Married: Geraldine Millard
Floyd Root.
Died: Henry C. Brucher, 25, of
Carverton, from wounds received
in New Guinea; John Place, 23, Me-
hoopany, failing from a barn in
Ruggles Hollow; Arden Husted, 65,
Idetown.
Grapefruit” were 4 for 23 cents;
rolled oats, 19 cents; 60 watt light
bulbs, 10 cents.
Frank Wright became the sixth
son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wright,
Noxen, to enter the service.
10 Years Ago
Mrs. Charles Eberle became the
first woman to serve on the Kings-
ton Township School Board.
and
above zero on March 1.
Charles Hemenway of Hillside
Farm encouraged farmers to raise
sheep.
Ferris Roberts trapped a 68
pound beaver at Lake Catalpa, the
largest he had taken in 15 years
of trapping. 2
Married: Kathleen LaVelle and
James Barlow; Delana Joyce Bedard
and Raymond J. Jones, Jr.
New potatoes were 5 pounds for
25 cents; small turkeys, 59 cents a
pound,
Died: Mrs. Mary Benjamin, 60,
Noxen; Mrs. Millie Wildoner, 73,
Hunlock’s Creek; Charles Leach, 45,
Dallas; L. E. Beisel, Idetown; Mrs.
Elizabeth Culp, Hunlock’s Creek;
Mrs. Goldie Gregory, 58, Trucksville;
Edward Harned, 75, Sweet Valley;
‘Mrs. E. N. Winter, 91, Shavertown;
Steven Kachurak, Pikes Creek.
Safety Valve
ONE SMALL LAUREL WREATH!
Dear Mrs. Hicks—
Hooray for your editorial in last
week’s Post! I have always been
proud to be a ‘Back Mountaineer,”
but recently, I must admit, I find
it a little embarrassing. It’s high
time we put our best foot forward,
rather than rudely shouting our
problems to each other and to the
general public. We've become a
stock to many towns-
people who dive for the editorial
what flavor of nastiness we're serv-
ing ‘this day!
Surely hope this present “sick-
ness” can be cured before long—
hate to hang my haed in shame for
this beautiful area and for the fine
people who are the great majority
living in it!
Very truly,
Becky Burns Shuster
(Mrs. W. A. Shuster)
Ed. note: Thanx, hix!
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By The Oldtimer
During the last fifty or sixty
years there have been so many
changes in educational systems, ed-
ucational facilities and educational
administration in this county and
area, that there seems to have been
few periods wheh some change was
not being made somewhere. In gen-
eral, numerous private schools, par-
ticularly the Academies which flour-
ished during the last century, were
on the way out, excepting the pa-
rochial schools. Public High Schools
have picked up accordingly.
Wilkes-Barre had ga whole string
of academies and private schools
since 1807, the more recent being
the Female Institute, started in 1854
and the Harry Hill Academy for
Boys in 1877. These were merged
in the Wilkes-Barre Institute and
housed in a new building in Forty
Fort. In fairly recent years this hap
become the Day School and attached
to Wyoming Seminary. The Wyo-
1843 by the Methodist Conference,
to be built in Wilkes-Barre or Kings-
ton, whichever would furnish the
most financial support. Building was
started in Kingston in 1844. It is
still going strong, with several new
buildings in fairly recent years.
Improved public high schools have
put a crimp in local patronage of
the International Correspondence
Schools at Scranton and to some
extent the Wilkes-Barre Business
College. The latter is the successor
of one started in 1887. They had
a big buildup under Victor Lee Dod-
son, maybe forty years ago. A big
new building was put in use on
Northampton Street, but proved to
be too costly. Later the school
moved back into a bank building
on the Square. The building on
Northampton Street has been oc-
cupied by several colleges, public
offices, etc. and seems to be a
white elephant. »
The position of county superin-
tendent has been raised in impor-
tance. His office has been furnished
a larger staff of assistants and spec-
ialists. A new County Board of
School Directors has been estab-
lished. District superintendents, of
which there were formerly very
few, are scattered all over the area.
In this century, many districts have
built new high schools, sometimes
two or three of them or more, and
improved their elementary schools.
One room schools, once common al-
most everywhere, are a thing of the
past. Smaller districts are being
grouped in jointures and mergers,
not always an unmixed blessing.
The Catholic convents and aca-
Mrs.
John Landis, at the left,
receives a check for $200 from Jack
Stanley for use in buying books
for Lake-Lehman high school
library.
Last Friday, Jack Stanley, repre-
senting Dallas Rotary Club, present-
ed a $200 check to the Lake-Lehman
High School Library to be used for
the purchase of books. Mrs. John
Landis, Lake-Lehman High School
librarian, accepted the gift on behalf
of the school.
Mrs. Landis plans to use these
Check From Rotary For Books At Lake-Lehman
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Rambling Around
— D. A. Waters
demies, also parochial schools, are
flourishing. There is a big Gate of
Heaven School in Dallas and a Cen-
tral Catholic High School in Kings-
ton, both relatively new.
Maybe forty years ago, local ex-
tension schools were established by
Universities. The University of Pa.
School of Accounts and Finance,
featuring night and part time in-
struction. Temple University estab-
lished an extension school in Scran-
ton. Pennsylvania State University
brought in a technical center at
Wilkes-Barre, which hag grown un-
til it is practically a junior college.
After about ten years of prelim-
inary work, College Misericordia for
women was started in 1923 in Dal-
las, with a rectangular unit which
would be hard to find now, if you
were not here then, so great has
been the increase of mew buildings,
some of which are still unfinished.
iIn 1933, Bucknell University organ-
ming Seminary was authorized in
ized a junior college at Wilkes-
Barre, which was soon made into
a full four year college now called
‘Wilkes. With backing from Notre
Dame, Kings College wag established
in 1946. The two city colleges have
taken over a lot of older mansions,
some smaller homes, at least two
abandoned coal company office
buildings, and ome large apart-
ments. They have also built very
substantial new buildings and ad-
ditions. °
Vocational and agricultural cour-
ses in high schools have been soft-
pedalled in the last few years, some
discontinued outright. The Wyoming
Valley Technical Institute is a public
cooperative venture not completely
satisfactory and a much larger vo-
cational school is in the discussion
stage.
Who said this was such a ne-
glected, down at the heels ‘area?
It is true that after increasing
in population for 130 years, Luzerne
County has since decreased right
along from a high figure of ‘445,109
in 1930 to 346,972 in 1960. Since
similar decreasen are noted in ‘the
same period for Lackawanna, Car-
bon and Schuylkill counties, it is a
fair assumption that the loss of
anthracite coal mining and trans-
portation is primarily - responsible.
‘While related industries and bus-
iness in general have been affected,
there is no general depression ag
contend. There is heayy unemploy-
ment, much of it due to unemploy-
ment becoming a profession in this
area. It is significant that the first *
and most vociferous objections to
the unemployment revisions were
hea®d in our area.
funds to increase library ‘ acquisi-
tions in science and biography. She
also plans to add. books to the fic-
tion section for senior and junior
high school. Plans are also being
formulated to hold a portion of the
money in a reserve fund for mew
books as they are published.
The check was presented to Lake-
Lehman as a result of the schools
participation in the Rotary Fair,
held in the fall. Checks secured
from the Fall proceeds were also
presented to Dallas High School.
Dear’ Editor:
We have lived on Mountain View
Road, East Dallas, for twenty five
years. We were snowed in twice
this year already, first time it was
five days and the last time we were
in from the 19th to the 24th of
February, We have to pay for the
plowing. Our neighbors won't chip
in. and help pay.
I was to the township meeting to
try to get the road taken over by
them, but Mr. Lamoreaux said he
,|wouldn’t take the good taxpayers’
money to take over the road, as
long as he was in office. As if we
didn’t pay taxes. But if we don’t
. . . Safety Valve . .
pay taxes, they would sell our
place.
They say it is a private road, but
lots of people travel it, and it
never was closed to the public.
Mrs. Russell Siley
Dallas RD 3
SYMPATHY
The community extends sympathy
to George Yatsko, Center More-
land, whose brother John, Mountain
Top, died on Tuesday.
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Better Leighton Never
I was privileged last week to wait
more than two hours for a hearing
to start at the courthouse, only to
{have the hearing put off till later.
The one consolation was that it
wasn’t my hearing. T was just there
as a newspaperman.
Everybody who stood around
stood around quietly, of necessity;
litigants whose best recourse is of-
ten a closed mouth, deputies whose
job is a closed mouth, lawyers (who
know when and when not to open
their mouths), and twenty assorted
clerks running around rubbing their
hands together and saying things
like “where’s Jake?’ and ‘has any-
body seen Tom ?”.
Asked if they didn’t mind stand-
ing around for a couple of hours
with no explanation, officers and
others concerned stared dolefully
down into the marble canyon and
offered: ‘They're
they can.”
It is my unenlightened opinion
that, if there aren’t enough courts
to handle all litigation, then some-
I don’t honestly believe, as do
some I've told of my experience,
that this is a great trickiplayed by
judges to keep people respectful of
the complexity of legal procedure.
Legal procedure is complicated, whe-
ther you believe it or not. If a case
is hurried along, a lawyer can claim
he was fouled when he appeals the
thing, unwinding everybody's best
efforts.
However, all this court stuff, be-
lieve it or not, once had its roots in
| the deliberation of ordinary wun-
' trained men. The Lord created the
men, and the men created the law
and the number of courts. ‘And the
men created too blasted few courts
for the number of cases that come
up today, apparently.
So rather than have everybody
stand around all day down at the
courthouse, only to begin with an
adjournment, why not shape up the
system?
ther, and the lawyers and legisla-
tors and judges won't be able to
until they get a little time. And they
don’t appear to be long ‘on that,
presently.
So I guess we might as well hang
up our coats and help this guy to
here a while.
|Babson”s Report
Financial Forecast
22. PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION.
i Otherwise, strength in building will
occur mainly in the public sector—
especially roadbuilding.
23. REAL ESTATE. I predict that
farms on the “right side” of cities
will constantly increase in value
during 1964. I say “right side”
because every city seems to have
some one best direction in which
to grow. This usually is toward
the higher land and often to the
west; but this is something sub-
division developers must watch very
closely.
24. RURAL AREAS. As I have
said before, the way to buy real
estate profitably is to drive out the
main road away from the city in
which you live, on the “right”
side. Every few miles, stop and
inquire the price of land; so long
as it is quoted by the foot, get back
in your car and drive until it is
quoted by the acre. Everything
else being equal, I forecast that the
purchase of this land in 1964 will
show you a profit over the long
term.
"25. FLORIDA PROPERTY. There
is still a lot of land in Florida, and
there are many retired people who
are hoping to move there. I fore-
cast that your best Florida buy in
1964 will be waterfront property.
God made only so much waterfront
land; but there is an enormous
amount of interior land which for
many years will be good only for
pasturage. Do not buy land —
anywhere — until you see it; don’t
depend on blueprints, catalogs, and
super sales organizations.
26. FLORIDA HOME. ' I believe a
small Florida city, and ownership of
the vacant lot on each side there-
of, will prove a safe and attractive
investment in 1964 for anyone who
has a check coming in regularly
from the North.
27. ADVERTISING. While TV ad-
vertising ewill continue strong for
patent medicines and some other
products, I forecast that honest
newspaper advertising will hold its
own. Newspaper ads can be cut
out and kept for reference, which
is impossible with radio or TV ads.
28. NEWSPAPERS. I forecast
that competing newspapers will con-
tinue Yo consolidate; and there may
possibly be a return to the days
when newspapers represented the
opinions of some one man with
courage, influence, and personality
rather than the decisions of a
“cold” board of directors. Note
that this is something television is
already trying to develop in its
news reports, and newspapers must
match it. .
Keystone Motor Club
Defends “Little Woman"
The lady of the house, once the:
butt of (male) jokes concerning
her driving skills (or lack of them),
has become a pretty important. (and
impressive) woman behind the
of interesting woman’s-angle items
just made by Keystone Automobile
doing the best ;
body ought to create more of them. ;
Well, T'll tell you. You aren't go- :
ing to shape it up, and I'm not ei-
find Jake, cause we're going to be |
wheel, according to a compilation |
From— i
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By
_DALUAS, PENNSYLVANIA
To Post ci
Hix
tributing a column.
over, think again.
Famous last words.
but good.
meat and taxes.
is uphill ?
to go on a cruise this March.
That’s right, a CRUISE.
Mrs. Whozit did.
animals.
things ?
The transportation enlisted in
plugged along on foot, still without a car.
fine for the figger, and after all,
It isn’t the same desk, nor the same chair, but it's the same
office, and it's been fourteen years since Hix first started working
regularly for the Dallas Post, after a rather lengthy spell of con-
And if anybody thinks it is a snap to be pitchforked into the
newspaper game after having become a grandmother many times
The idea was to work long enough to finance a car, and then
drop gracefully out of the organization. ;
Howard called up one morning. He said, in effect, “How about
filling in for a few days while Myra is under the weather? Maybe
a week. And would nine o'clock be too early for you to get your-
self out of bed in the morning? Herb will come and get you.”
It had been a long cold winter, with spring still a long way
off, and there hadnt been too much doing around the house. ‘A
job looked like a good idea. ‘But it mustn’t last too long.
to be free to visit my family when I get the urge.”
I have
Once get hooked by the newspaper business,and you're hooked,
the army after awhile, and Hix
Start ‘saving for a car, and you find you're saving for stew
It was years before Hix finally got the car, but the walking was
what's a mile, even if most of it
Once you get a car, the temptation is fto use it to get to
the mailbox, and you begin sprouting wheels instead of heels.
It’s been a long fourteen years, and it's going to be a real treat
For three halcyon weeks, Hix will not be answering ‘the phone
at the Dallas Post, comforting people with lost dogs, sympathizing
with small children who have dropped their change in the snow-
bank, writing classified ads that ‘will bring home the bacon, reading
proofs, filing one-column cuts, explaining why the Shavertown PTA
news got in and the Trucksville PTA news got left on the composing
stones, and soothing folks who rashly offer to cancel their sub-
scriptions because, b’gosh, they didn’t get on the front page when
Feeding the birds while I'm away is going to be a problem, be-
cause that pair of grouse needs plenty of chick-grain, and the wood-
peckers have an insatiable appetite for suet.
Still and all, by mid-March ‘there should be a few natural pick-
ings, and if there should be a heavy snowstorm, maybe somebody
from the Post will drop around to put sunflower seed in the feeder
and dump a handful of grain on the porch step for the grouse.
One thing is for sure, though . . . the big fat sassy squirrels
are going to feel very much put upon.
the bird feeder instead of digging up their own acorns, the lazy
They've been depending on
I should stay home from a cruise in order to feed the greedy
Caribbean cruise ship, here I come!
Gettysburg.
of Howard Risley’s favorites.
of the local authorities.
Driving Home The Cows
Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass
He turned them into the river-lane;
One after another he let them pass,
Then fastened the meadow-bars again.
Under the willows and over the hill, ,
He patiently followed their sober pace;
The merry whistle for once was still,
And something shadowed the sunny face.
Only a boy! and his father had said
He never could let his youngest go:
Two already were lying dead
Under the feet of the trampling foe.
But after the evening work was done,
And the frogs were loud in the meadow-swamp
- Over his shoulder he slung his gun,
And stealthily followed the foot-path damp
Across the clover, and through the wheat,
With resolute heart and purpose grim,
Though cold was the dew to his hurrying feet,
And the blind bat’s flitting startled him.
*. Thrice since then had the lanes been white,
And the orchards sweet with apple-bloom;
And now, when the cows came back at night,
The feeble father drove them home.
For news had come to the lonely farm
That three were lying where two had lain;
‘And the old man’s tremulous, palsied arm
Could never lean on a son’s again.
The summer day grew cool and late.
He went for the cows when the work was done;
But down the lane, as he opened the gate,
He saw them coming one by one—
Brindle, Ebony, Speckle,
Shaking their horns in the evening wind;
Cropping the buttercups out of the grass,
But who was it followed close behind?
and Bess,
Loosely swung in the idle air
The empty sleeve of army blue;
And worn and pale from the crisping hair,
Looked out a face that the father knew.
For Southern prisons will somethimes yawn,
And yield their dead unto life again;
And the day that comes with a cloudy dawn
In golden glory at last may wane.
The great tears sprang to their meeting eyes;
For the heart must speak when the lips are dumb;
And under the silent evening skies
Together they. followed the cattle home.
Kate Putnam Osgood
One hundred years ago Abaham Lincoln gave his address at
It seems fitting at this time to republish a poem which was one
Howard was a dedicated Civil War
buff, living, breathing and sleeping Civil War, acknowledged as one
- This poem has been standing in type for months, awaiting a
suitable time and place. Howard put it on the “hook” himself.
Club. ;
In fact, Keystone points out, 39%
of licensed drivers are women! The
figures: Men:- 50,150,000, or 60.5%;
Women:- 32,700,000, or 39.5%.
Most women use the family car
for shopping trips most of the time,
the Club account continues. Then,
| in order of usage, are social driving, ®
church-going, business, and pick-up
and delivery of ‘school children.
Taking friend husband to and from
‘the railroad station is very near the
bottom of the list.
PAPER NAPKINS
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