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"THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
Only
Yesterday
| Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
30 Years Ago
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1964
This Was When The Library Was Young
St. Bernard dog,
enjoy the
mornings in the Library?
thered in the main library building,
which used to
Story Hour Saturday
Those |
were the days when moppets ga-
Remember Dusty, the mammoth | but the Story Lady was the same,
| Mrs. H. W. Smith.
Pick yourself out of the mob.
back when!
Lehman Township was part of
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-
at 85c per column inch.
Editor and Publisher ....
Associate Editors—
ve... MYRA Z. RISLEY
Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, LeicuroN R. Scott, JR.
Social Editor
Advertising Manager
Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Accounting
Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
Louise Marks
Doris R. MALLIN
Mrs, VELMA Davis
SANDRA STRAzZDUS
“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution
was killed in a highway accident.
Lt. Peter Skopic was held by the
Germans after his plane was down-
ed by Nazi fighters.
Two airborne men were wounded
in France the week after D-Day.
William Glenn Knecht was a glider
flight officer; Jack Evans a para-
trooper.
Robert Norman Smith, Huntsville
was appointed to Annapolis.
Mrs. W. B. Sutton, Carverton,
74, suffered deep lacerations when
injured in a car driven by her 16
year old nephew. Mrs. Sutton went
National Advertising Representative
(NR) AMERICAN NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES e.
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Editorially Speaking
They Take Things For Granted
See that the kids employ the buddy system swimming.
And remember this:
the risk in the water.
Small children do not realize
If a playmate goes under and stays
there, they think he is playing, and that he will come up
Soon.
Small children are faced with unusual things every
day of their lives.
They take things for granted.
Exposed to tragedy on TV, they simply do not rec-
ognize it as part of daily life, something which could
happen to Johnnie, or Susie, or to themselves. ;
Be sure that there is somebody with common sense
in charge when your small children swim, and don’t leave
the entire responsibility to a baby sitter.
Baby sitters are very convenient institutions, but
their attention can be diverted just long enough for
Johnnie to slip under the surface and drown.
It's A Safety Measure
Construction on the new highway from Luzerne to
Dallas has been exceptionally free of headaches for the
_ motorist.
\
There have been rough spots in the roadbed, and
single-lane traffic at times, but this inconvenience is noth-
ing compared with what it might have been if the road
had been completely closed and all traffic diverted.
* Now that part of the new roadway is nearing com-
pletion, residents and visitors are complaining that the
No Passing signs are still posted. They see no reason
why they should not speed and pass, especially on the
. section between Dallas Township and the junction of
Pioneer Avenue with the highway.
There is a good reason, which thinking motorists
are already taking into consideration. :
The lack of painted white lines could easily be a
death-trap.
The lines will be the final step, after the median bar-
riers are in operation.
Safe entrance and exit roads are not yet completed.
It wastes very little time to observe that 35 mile an
hour speed limit and to remain in line.
There are bottlenecks down below Trucksville, and
a bottleneck approached at speed can result in a wreck.
Take it easy.
It won’t be long now.
Retired Retail Credit Man Makes
200 Stout Litter Bags For Auction
Richard Rees, Trucksville senior
citizen who retired three years ago
from employment with the Retail
Credit Bureau based in Atlanta,
Georgia, after forty years.in its
service; has an unusual hobby.
Mr. Rees makes litter-bags for
cars.
He has 200 all made up, ready for
the Library Auction.
They are small sacks fashioned
of odds and ends of plastic seat-
cover material, in a variety of
colors, measuring roughly 10X7%%
inches, $7
They hang .on the dash by means
of a grommet. The wire stiffener
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Rees’ contribution to clean road-
sides, and this July, to the Library
Auction.
He says that his wife describes
the needlecraft which holds the
sides together, as a blanket stitch.
He learned recently that the hole
worked in the top flap is known
technically as a grommet.
Mr. Rees says makers of seat
covers supply him with scraps for
free, and that he uses a stapler
to make the hem. Hemming, he
says, is not his line.
He was born in Tioga County,
son of a minister. His father was
for a number of years pastor of the
at the top permits them to hang | Bethesda Congregational Church in
open for easy stowing of chewing
gum wrappers, and sandwich bags.
Edwardsville. He is widely related
to the Kunkle family in this area,
Making the litter bags is Mr, | a cousin of Wardan’s,
through the windshield.
Coach Tinsley left Dallas High for
a better job at Sharon High.
In the Outpost: Ralph Whitebread,
India; Thomas Batey, England; Bob
Grose, Sampson; Charles. Gordon,
Virginia; = Edward Tutak, Walla-
Walla; Gilbert Husted, Jacksonville;
Ray Pritchard, England; Walt Schu-
ker, China; T. Jefferson Miers, on
a speck of land in the Pacific; John
Youngblood, Bedford Springs; Jim-
{ mie Trebilcox, Hawaii.
Pearson, 80, Outlet. |
Belles-Shaver-Compton, reunion.
Married: Louise Space to James
C. Lurba. Betty Marie Staub to |
Christopher M. O'Conner. Virginia |
Miller fo Thomas Casterline.
10 Years Ago
Nancy Wood was going over the
jumps on the front page, and an
impressive list of new goods for
the Auction was printed. The
Eight Annual Auction was imminent.
Franklin Firemen served 700 din-
ners on the Fourth of July.
More of Stefan Hellersperk’s rem-
iniscenses about being a captive of
the Russian.
Harold Lewis, Franklin Township,
was elected president of the joint
Dallas-Franklin Board.
Married: Peggy Lou Helfrich to
Peter J. Gaughan. (Carol Luella
Harding to William C. Reese.
Schooley Memorial © at General
Hospital reflected the love of for-
mer patients. z
Mrs. Millie Evans, 30 Center
Moreland, was killed in a car crash.
Brakes failed. Seven children were
in the car.
Big article on how to keep chil-
Died: Alice Major, Lehman, Mary !
the Connecticut Township of Bed-
ford, excepting the small piece ex-
tending to Harveys Lake. 'It was
part of the new Township of Dallas
established in 1817 and was made
a separate Township in 1829.
The Ide family was prominent
among the first settlers and also
in the development of schools. The
first schoolhouse was built of logs
in 1810, near where W. H. Ide
later lived. Early teachers were
J. I. Bogardus, Obed Baldwin, Julius
Pratt, Burr Baldwin, a Mr. Perry,
and Elijah Worthington. In 1836
Daniel and Oliver Ide built a school-
house at Lehman Center, the first
teachers being Ellen Pugh and Maria
Fuller. Exact location of this build-
ing is not known to me, but there
has been a schoolhouse. at or near
the intersection of the Lehman-
Idetown and Lehman-Outlet roads
for maybe a hundred years.
Nathan and Oliver Ide built the
West Lehman schoolhouse in 1842,
a couple of miles or a little less,
west of Lehman Center on the road
to Meeker.
time, and was probably removed
when the school still standing near
Meeker Church was built.
The Ide School was well named,
as it was located in a village named
Idetown and always included num-
erous children of Ide descent
its enrollment. '‘At the fork where
the road from Huntsville separates
to go to Idetown and Lehman, op-
posite the present Huntsville Nurs-
ery, stood the Linskill School, nam-
ed for prominent John Linskill liv-
ing nearby. ;
At the opposite end of the town-
ship, near Smiths Pond, stood the
Forest School, and near the north-
west corner, on present route 29,
about halfway between Pikes Creek
and Lake Silkworth, there was a
school, still standing, called Ruggles
School, from a local family of that
name. Recently, the 30 Years Ago
column in THE POST reported a
contract for $3,495 for such school.
In a plan of gradual consolidation,
the school directors closed the one-
room schools and moved pupils to
the village of Lehman. After a
jointure agreement with Jackson
Township, all the schools in that
township ‘were also closed and
pupils moved to Lehman. In a
later three-way jointure, high
school pupils from Ross Township
dren out of abandoned refrigerators.
were also included at Lehman. The
We Wish The Back M¢. Memorial Library
This steod. for..a long!
in ;
Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
Lehman school was enlarged sev-
eral times to accommodate these
changes.
It is said the first school in Lake
Township was taught by Jonathan
Williams in the house of Otis Allen
in 1842-44.
was built on the farm of Henry Ide.
Half a century later there was a
school in Bear Hollow, called Allen,
a little south of the road between
Loyalville and the Outlet corner of
the Lake.
School was conducted by a Mr.
Williams, maybe not the same one,
at the West Corner in 1848-49 in
the home of Nathan Kocher. A
schoolhouse stood on the road lead-
ing to Loyalville. There were schools
called Outlet, a mile or so from
the actual outlet of the Lake, also
at Ruggles and Loyalville, or in the
vicinity of these places.
always in the same location were
sometimes called Maple Grove.
Lake Township made a jointure
agreement with Noxen in Wyoming
«County, which was subsequently
eombined withthe prior: jointure-of
Lehman-Jackson-Ross, now com-
monly referred to .as Lake-Lehman.
Shortly after the combined jointure
had erected, under the authority of
financing, a new high school on old
i component districts voted separate-
Is to change the jointure into a
union or merged district. All ap-
proved ' excepting Lake Township,
which leaves a somewhat confusing
situation. -- Obviously Lake Town-
ship will have to continue its pupils
in the new Merged District, but the
exact conditions may require some
complicated accounting and ‘admini-
stration.
Following a note in this column
on Franklin Township Schools, my
attention has been called to a school
built in 1815 in Orange Village,
which was not called by that name
then. Early teachers Amarilla New-
berry, Ambrose Fuller, a Miss Har-
ris, William Calkins, ‘George Ochmig,
Susan Farver (Mrs. Daniel Lee),
Henry Osborne, James Dickinson,
and a Mr. Herring.
TOWNSHIP CLASS 1954
Class of 1954, Dallas Township
High School, reunion committee,
will meet with Mrs. Jane Owens
Stair July 15 at 8 p.m. at her home
at 66 Davenport Street.
An Outstanding Successful Auction
Thutsday, Friday And Saturday
July 9, 10 And 11, 1964
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Falls From Clift
Near Bering Sea
Local Airman Takes
| 200 Foot Plunge
Full details are lacking in the |
| narrow escape from death of a
| Harveys Lake airman, when he
| plunged from a 200 foot cliff six
i miles from his base at Driftwood
Bay, Alaska.
A/FC Richard Rank, on.a hunt-
ing expedition with two fellow air-
men near the Bering Sea, June 27,
slipped and fell in wild terrain,
breaking four ribs, a lumbar verte-
bra, and suffering a compound frac-
ture of the right arm.
One companion remained with
him, while the other went for help
to rescue him from an almost in-
accessible position.
took turns carrying Rank the six
miles to the air base, twelve hours
of gruelling travel over nearly im-
passable country.
He is in the hospital at Anchor-
age. He is with the 7th 14th AC&A
Squadron.
Rank has been in Alaska since
October. His wife, and five chil-
dren, the oldest eight, and his
mother Mrs. Edith Rank, remain
at Harveys Lake.
Twenty airmen.
Better Leighton Never
The past weekend was blessed
in varying degrees with fair wea-
ther and my return. I note with
a small amount of satisfaction that
many people didn't know I was
missing. Y
In case you didn’t recognize me,
I was the very last fireman in the
Lehman Horseshow parade. No oth-
er fireman can make that state-
ment.
Rather be the last in that parade
than the first. George McCutcheon
turned a little pale when notified
by the parade marshal that the
marching units were positioned
right behind the horses. “Oh no”,
said George, “that’s the worst place
they could be!” “Don’t worry’, was
the reply, ‘we have clowns to sweep
the road up.” 3
‘What little rain fell was also a
blessing, wetting down the track
and grounds, and helping to keep
things cool, so that the veteran
horseshow-goer didn’t have to feel
like Lawrence after-a hard day in
the Arabian desert.
Congressman Dan Flood, an an-
nual visitor to the Lehman Horse-
show was remarking to Shel Evans
and me about the splendid success
yedr after year of the horseshow,
particularly as a community endea-
vor. He mentioned to Myron Baker
the possibility of getting federal
funds to help build a permanert
horseshow set-up in Lehman.
Another thing the Congressman
did was to presage the cloudburst
by about one minute or less, by
glancing over his shoulder and ob-
serving, ‘Say, that’s a nasty look-
ing thunderhead over there.” And
in short order, we were all under
cover.
A telegram was received from a
long-time: exhibitor, = Maj. Lee
White, unavoidably detained in
Virginia, expressing regret at not
being able to attend, and calling
the Lehman event “possibly the best
one-day show of its kind in the
country’.
THEN COMES THE AUCTION
Then comeg the Library Auction,
and early this week chairman Frank
Huttman was amazed at the in-
flux of all kinds of things at the
barn in the preceding few days.
Every year there is a time of
magic, when a near-empty barn is
filled under a moonless night, it
seems, by donors who silently come
and go.
'A conclave of laboring auction
chiefs Monday commended the new
grounds committee chairman Ed
Brominski for doing a great job.
It is estimated that the grounds
chairmanship demands three weeks
Horseshow Parade Gets Off To
Slow Start, Waiting For Sun
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From—
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Pillar To Post...
By Hix
‘By tonight, the Eighteenth Annual Library Auction will be going
full tilt, and the Lehman Horse-Show will have passed into history.
Keep your fingers crossed for good weather. For this weekend,
better to fry than to drown, though goodness knows the area needs
rain, and badly. That little thundershower we had last Wednesday
caused the tide to rise in the A&P parking lot, and timid dogs to
retreat under the couch, but it did very little to freshen the gardens.
It was nice while it lasted, however. : ¢
Caught by the rain while checking out of the grocery, it was
a real pleasure to me to wade though an ankle-deep flood and three
minutes later turn the key in the front door while dripping buckets
on the steps.
But let's be sensible about this thing, weather-man!
Let's have our rain after midnight from now until the auction.
is over, and then let it pour all next week if it wants to.
Postponing an auction is like trying to warm over a last year’s
romance. :
It lacks the essential spark.
Don’t worry about a place to sit at the Auction. The barn
crew always brings out a flock of beat-up chairs and sells them off
for a quarter apiece, or maybe six bits if it’s a hot day and people’s
dogs are beginning to bark.
Most folks don’t bother to take home, unless they have value
as something for the home do-it-yourselfer to scrape and paint.
They abandon them on the grounds, and come midnight, a busy crew
picks them up and returns them to. the Barn, all ready to be sold
again on the following day. :
You can insure yourself a lot of comfort for a very modest sum.
Or bring your own folding chair, staking out a claim for it on °
the bank early in the day, where there is a good view of the ‘Auc-
tion block.
Don’t miss it. Sounds like a good auction, in line with eighteen
years of auctions which have been the main support of our Library.
It got off to a slow start because
Ernie Gay displayed the new Ford
of a morning drizzle which let up
shortly before 10 a.m., but when
the Lehman Horseshow parade
finally got rolling, spectators had
their money’s worth.
A small, but eye-catching feature,
was Uncle Sam tootling along on
a small garden tractor, with a mini-
ature float of Betsy Ross in tow.
Uncle Sam was Herbert Ward, for-
mer manager of Dallas Acme; Betsy
Ross and her helper, Peggy Stritt-
matter and Margery Helm.
Damp Cub Scouts from Lehman
under convoy of Judy Simms, wore
paper mache heads, showing Bear,
Bobcat, Lion and Webelos, fearfully
and wonderfully made. Tatoo 41.
Lake-Lehman Band, in a salute
to the hot weather, were outfitted
in dazzling white shirts and black
underpinning. Decimated by vaca-
tion, the remaining members under
John Miliauskas gave their usual
sterling performance.
Lehman officer Richard Morgan,
and Noxen’s Assistant Chief Bud
Weaver got a big kick out of de-
touring a State Police car.
Mrs. Thomas Heffernan, complete
with cane, wondered where all the
cars came from that parked on her
property and menaced her oat field.
One car led to another.
One little boy on a pony, and
one very small horsewoman on a
very large horse, stood out among
the riders.
Dallas Junior High Falcons model-
led their red skirts and white
blouses, but left off their candy-
striped hats for fear of a sudden
downpour.
~ American Legion Daddow Isaacs
Post, led off, with Commander Cave,
Curt Bynon, Warren Cease, and
Dick Prynn as standard bearers.
Dallas Kiwanis Junior Rifle Team
trotted briskly down the road, and
a whole herd of Brownies sat on
their feet in a station wagon.
work ahead of the event and ons
week afterward.
The Auction heads were on T-V
on Monday afternoon to plug the
event, and it is said that Harry
Lefko immortalized a Roto-Tiller
by not knowing what it was, there-
by rendering it perhaps the most
prestigious item on the block.
Note: unauthorized youngsters
Falcon, to be chanced off at mid-
night on Saturday at the Library
Auction.
Friendship Class of Lehman
Methodist Church showed the world
in miniature, featuring a modest
hula dancer in a substantial grass
skirt, posed against a replica of the
‘world with no insides at the World's
Fair.
Many folks in this area had never
seen a car with a rumble seat, but
there it was, with small children
exposed to the elements while their
parents nested cozily on the front
seat.
Sweet Valley firemen demon-
firemen trotting along on foot to
man the pump and direct the
stream of water, a contrast to
modern equipment closely follow-
ing, from Sweet Valley, Jackson
Township, Lehman, Lake Silkworth,
Kunkle, Kingston Township, and
Dallas, all flashing their red lights.
The last fire truck passed, with a
happily resurrected Scott hanging
to the rear, and the lines of parked
cars started the half hour job of
disentangling themselves.
By that time, it had decided not
to rain, and clear weather with
i falling temperatures was assured for
the afternoon and evening at the
: Lehman Horse-Show Grounds.
Safety Valve
Good Samaritan Sought
Dear Editor:
My son, Leroy and daughter,
Judith took a bicycle ride from our
home in Noxen to. their grand-
parents residence at Harveys Lake
on July 1. 3
After they started home, several
hours later, Judy had an accident.
Her brother heard her cry out and
went back to her, but by that time
a man had stopped his car and of-
fered his help. He took her back
to her grandfather’s who brought
her to the doctor's office.
but we would like to thank him for
his generosity and kindness.
We hope he will let us know
someday who he was.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Scott
found on any floor in the barn will
be sold as slaves to the highest |
bidder.
Noxen, Pa.
READ THE TRADING POST
We heartily commend the citizenry
for their continued interest
in such a worthy cause.
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BEST OF LUCK TO ALL .....
We don’t know the man’s name
strated their ancient hose-cart with-
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