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SANDRA STRAZDUS “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution Editorially Speaking TOMORROW'S COMMON-PLACE Today's miracle is tomorrow’s common-place. Can you name the astronauts in order of their flight through space? i You listened, holding your: breath, when the first sub-orbital flight was made, following that intrepid man- projectile from talde-off until his safe landing in the sea a few minutes later. You watched, glued to your television, when the sec- ond man almost lost his life as his capsule sank, and heli- copters circled helplessly above him, straining to lift him to safety. : You watched the lift-off of the man who first circled the earth, spotting his progress by the flashes on the map of the world. Was it old-hat by the time the second man was catapulted into space? Or the third? "And now, after twelve futile tries to shoot the moon and get pictures of the surface, the moon-shoot was a complete. success on the thirteenth attempt, and history was made. How many people watched the take-off on television? The time of the crash landing was well publicized, and many people watched for that jubilant reception at the base, as the count-down came closer and closer to the zero mark, twenty seconds, ten seconds, and then the sudden cessation of the humming sound which had mark- ed the passage of the projectile through space. Pictures had been taken up to almost the moment of impact, over 4,000 of them. Does the populace get out and parade? This is a historic moment in the saga of space flight, but there will be a re-run of the landing warmed up for the evenings news on T-V, complete with the moment of impact, the cessation of the humming noise, and the wild excitement of headquarters. Flight through space has become an incident, not an earth-shaking event, We have wiped the eye of Russia. It has cost us goodness knows how much money. US. The U. S. Government. And it will cost us goodness knows how much more, before two astronauts mount their space vehicle and head for the moon. Much remains to be done before if will be safe for them to attempt that hazardous landing. If they are lost forever, coasting hopelessly out to- ward the distant galaxies, the chances are that it will be a fairy-tale to most of the people in this country. People become immune to wonders. Wonders are something which happen on television, with no real effect on everyday living. There is a saturation point for wonder. —— TE BAN BILLBOARDS NOW With the new highway almost completed, now is the time to see to it that billboards along that highway are banned. One glaring sign leads to another. The gorge lead- ing from the Back Mountain down into Luzerne is scenic. When raw earth is covered with greenery again, the route will be as beautiful as that of Route 29, leading to West . Nanticoke, which remains undefiled by billboards. The time to get rid of signs is before they are erected. : There is already an ordinance. Let’s put teeth into it. And let’s get rid of the billboards left over from the old highway. Some of them are still defacing the scenery. They should come down before the new stretch of highway is dedicated. Eh Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago Showers relieved a drought which had endangered crops. Insecticides,. thirty years ago, caused death of cattle in drought- stricken Kansas, when they ate weeds sprayed to kill insects. Nothing new about a danger which came to a head in the news two years ago, when “Silent Spring” was published. theodore S. Snyder, 76, died. He had been associated in busi- ness with John A. Ryman and C. A. Frantz. Conducting services was Rev. Francis Freeman. Bearers included Ralph Rood, Addison Woolbert, W. B. Risley. William Dawkins, Fernbrook, headed the newly organized Quoit Club. 3 The annual meteor shower was spectacular. An eight-page issue following a long run of four-page jobs. Rob- bers Roost occupied an entire page, and ankle length dresses in the height of fashion, another. You could get 8 quarts of motor oil for 99 cents. Patterson Grove was preparing for the annual grange picnic. The Blue Eagle was still scream- ing. 20 Years Ago » Sgt. William Stritzinger, 22, Fern- brook, was killed in action in France, shortly after the invasion. Edward Baranoski, reported kill- ed, was in a hospital in England, and was writing letters home. His parents had received a letter from the War Department announcing his death. W. Glenn Knecht, flight officer during the airborne attack on France, won the Air Medal. He was in the glider troops. Fred Kiefer purchased a building in Tunkhannock, planned to open an auto supply store. In the Outpost: Bernard Polachek, on a landing ship; John Joseph, |S. Pacific; Ted Parrish, Italy; Bud Mitchell, France; Lt. Claudia Cooke, England; Durwood Splitt, Corsica; Bernard Novicki, King’s Point; Glen | Ehret, Anzio; Eddie Tutak, San Diego; David Decker, California; Harry Sweppenheiser, Florida; War- ren Stanton, Point Lookout Light; Joseph Statnick, New Guinea; Rob- ert G. Pogan, England; Allen Ocken- house, France; Lou Kelly, Pacific. Mrs. Rachell Wyckoff was 96. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Winters, Center Moreland, celebrated their Golden Wedding. Doyle Roberts, 50, Dallas, ran for a bus. Minutes later he collapsed and died of heart failure. 10 Years Ago Polio fund containers were again on shop counters. Finances had been exhausted for care of crippled children and for purchase of gamma globulin to combat the disease. Life- saving serum was not yet available. Parents were still praying for a cure or a preventive. Shavertown firemen, testing’ their new pumper, blew up some dried- out sections of hose. Better it should happen at a test, stated Chief Russell Edmondson, than at the height of a blaze. Edmondson had driven the new pumper in from Kenosha, 823 miles away. Fourteen families dependent up- on the Still well in Fernbrook, were cut off when the well changed hands. Dallas Water Company made connections, relieving = the household drought. Crash at intersection of highway and route 309 injured two Forty Fort men. Their car rammed a trailer truck. Lehman was preparing for the annual flower show. Died: Mrs. Carrie Randall, 76, East Dallas. - Charles Smith, 50, Overbrook Road. Mrs. Margaret Ann Jones, 73, Bethel Hill. The Lundy building was being repainted. Married: Betty Jane Hale to Rob- ert E. Kerr. : Teeners took North End 7 to 0. Shopping Spree . . . If you can’t get to Shavertown “to buy your sweet corn from George Jacobs, you can find it at Billy Davis’ in Dallas. Ever get a flank steak from the butcher at Davis’? No wastage. A&P is featuring chopped onions, frozen in plastic sacks. Pour out what you need, and pop the sack back in the freezer. Cheaper than dehydrated flakes. Who would bother to chop onions at that price ? Merrel Thomas produce stand has exceptionally nice peaches. Try some of Acme’s dehydrated potato, but instead of mashing it, add extra canned milk, onion flakes, butter, salt and pepper, and turn it into a good thick potato soup. Clips of fried bacon add to the flavor. ; A pleasure to market at Mazer’s. Spic and span counters, no wilted produce, flowers everywhere. Not too long before Fred Updyke | will have ever-bearing strawberries. Try those hot dogs at Daringls for your next cook-out, THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1964 Better Leighton Never The Appalachia bill hashed around Congress is designed to put money and jobs into pover- ty-areas like West Virginia and middle south. It may also affect Wilkes-Barre. Luzerne and Wyo- ming counties are the northern limit of what is defined in the bill as Appalachia. now being Theoretically, T have learned from Washington, this bill could be used to benefit the Back Mountain as well. A public project, such as a hos- pital, could thus be implemented with federal money. ’ I don’t know how you feel about this, and I will welcome letters, or stop me on the street, or phone, ete. Now there's a good chance I'm not dry behind the ears yet, and don’t understand how things work in this world, but I'm not sure we ought even to be interested in | taking federal money that was originally aimed at feeding poor people in Kentucky. Maybe, on the other hand, we ought to try to get some of that money, since chances are thou- sands of dollare would be misdi- rected * by governmental stupidity and red tape anyway. But the new highway puts Nes- | bitt Hospital only minutes away from the Back Mountain, and there are three others in Wilkes-Barre, plus a big Vets Hospital (in a real emergency), plus Pittston Hospital, which services as far up as Frank- lin Township often, and Nanticoke State Hospital which takes care of Sweet Valley and Silkworth people. Now, you may have trouble get- ting a hospital bed sometimes, but the fact is that things are that way all over the country, and Lu- zerne County is technically, by US standards, over-hospitaled. This is not to say that we won't need a hospital in the Back Moun- tain some day. There may come a day when the two greatest me- tropolises in Luzerne County will be the Back Mountain and Moun- taintop.. But, at that time, maybe we can raise our own money, like we did for the library. Meanwhile, there is getting to be a little topo much federal govern- ment in areas where local bodies should be thinking for themselves, | as far as I'm concerned, but if they have to spend that money up here, let it be down in the valley. They need it. Along The Tracks The number of places where you can take a long walk without climb- ing a mountain or sidestepping speeders is fast waning, so why not do your ‘hiking oni'the old ‘railbogike bed ? ) A There’s 20 miles of it from Lu- zerne, to. Noxen, and you probably won't be interested in doing it all in one stretch. But you can pick five or ten miles nearest your home. That’s what I did last Sunday, taking the route from Dallas to Alderson, which is very circuitous. Doubtless there was very good en- gineering behind the twisting con- tours from Dallas up through Kunkle’s back country and on to the Lake, but if you plan such a Public Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that John W. Ashelman, 160 Charles Street, Wilkes Barre, Pa., and W. Sterling Casterlin, 31 = Sheldon Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., will file in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and in the Of- fice of the Prothonotary of Luzerne County on Friday, September 4, 1964, application for a certificate to do business under the assumed name of Ashelman - Casterlin Ag- ency, said business to be carried on at 160 Charles Street, Wilkes- Barre, Pa. Edward D. Morgan Boyle, Davis & Morgan 609 Miners Bank Bldg. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Forty Fort Lumber Co. Your Andersen Window Dealer Complete Stock Of Andersen Windows Beautify Your Home With Andersen: — V Flexivent V Pressure V Beauty- Seal Line V Combina- Vv Narroline tion V Casement \ Basement V Strutwall v Patio Doors V Gliding FREE ESTIMATES FORTY FORT LUMBER CO. Yard Open Sat. Til 4 P.M. Murray and Dilley Streets Forty Fort hike, don’t get the idea it's going i to be like a fast four-mile hop out along the highway. I had originally thought to walk all the way to Noxen, and it is my habit to bite off more than I can chew on these marathons. Five or ten miles into nowhere, a little voice inside me whispered ‘‘wise up.” I made Alderson ‘the end of the line. This is a hike designed by our travel bureau strictly for those who want to meditate as they go. My camera was useless. The railroad right-of-ways through thick forest most of the way, and visibility is near zero on either side. There are some great views above Chestnut Ridge toward Kunkle, if one could only see through the brush. Thj is so much the case that seclusion is dominant characteristic of the hike. For example, the only sounds to be heard through the forest are those of an occasional rabbit or fox getting out of your way. The hiker is startled by the sound of birds when he gets to farmlands near the Lake. There is also a notable ab- sence of menacing farm-dogs, which can usually tell a strange step for miles. (Keep your eyes on the trail There are still stacks of ties all along the way, and two overpasses have been removed by the wreckers.) got back to Sunset, as this was the first exercise I'd had since I got out of the hospital, and with the | highway to Dallas still to be walked, I was glad to be bailed out by Mr. and Mrs. James Kozemchak, who happened by in the car. Periodic lulls in the hum of office routine tend to plunge me into be- I was really tired by the time I. Sweet Valley ANYBODY KNOW THIS RECIPE? Dear Sir: 1 wonder if you could help me. My husband and I are both from Wilkes-Barre, but now live in High- mount, N. Y. Some time ago there was a recipe published in one of the town newspapers, written by a man from Shavertown, It was a clam-bake recipe to hold outside. It called for seaweed, and for chicken and big clams and little- necks in cheesecloth. Do you know who gave the re- cipe? We tried to find it in the town papers and were told you folks might be able to help. Could you put it in the paper if you find it? We are planning a clambake the end of this month. Thanking you for your help, Mrs. William Dilg, Sr. Box 31 Highmount, N. Y. : Ed. Note: This is beyond us. But Mrs. Sherman Harter, Trucksville, has a recipe for individual portions of a clambake, using both chicken and clams, tied up in a cheesecloth. She sometimes adds corn. She did not mention seaweed. Too hard to get, up this way. She uses half a broiling chicken, six clams, one onion, one white potato, one sweet potato, and ties up the cheesecloth. She steams the portions in a cover- ed boiler, with the minimum of water in the bottom. The clams furnish the liquid, and also the salt. Takes about two hours. | to some distant hillside for a few hours, I would gather a month’s supply of wits. The Sunday forester who meas- ures each minute in terms of foot- ! steps, however, realizes that the jmost rewarding reflections are ' precious, fleeting intervals stolen on lief that if I could only get away | company time. Johnson Flint, one of his favorites. daughter in New York State Frank Jackson, Harveys Lake Bird-Man, Contributes Poem Frank Jackson sends us a poem about winter birds written by Annie Frank, who has always entertained the winter birds lavishly at his many feeders clustered about his home at Harveys Lake, is deprived of this pleasure now. He spends only his summers at Harveys Lake, his winters with his . . . feeding birds. Voie Frank used to put out not only bushels of sunflower seeds, but cracked l hickory nuts from his own trees, to keep the chickadees fat and sassy | through the long winter months when native food is hard to find. Here is the poem that Frank sent us, hopeful that the Post could find DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— Pillar To Post... By Hix There is something which deeply disturbs me in all this hurrah about poor living conditions. News writers and commentators keep harping on the deplorable state of the kitchens and the hallways and the elevators in what are admittedly slum districts, housing devoted to what used to be termed the submerged tenth of the population. A photographer takes pictures of a grease encrusted stove, and a mound of human filth in an elevator or on a stair landing. What I want to know is this: who permitted the stove to become encrusted with grease? bugs breed without using insecticide ? Is it ‘the fault of the taxpayer who is asked. to foot the bill for moving, or the fault of the slatternly woman: who does not care whether she wallows in filth or not ? Of course there are places where no human being should be living, places which are the breeding grounds for vice in the crowd- ed cities. It is completely impossible to legislate personal reactions. A slatternly woman, transplanted to a modern home with modern convenience, will still remain slatternly. It is not the lack of up- to-date appliances which dictate her approach to her environment, but her own personal inability to see what is before her eyes. It takes a reformation from the inside out, not from the outside in. ; In my young days (And that was some time ago) we did not have modern conveniences. Our living conditions would be described today as substandard, and doubtless would be the subject of much clucking on the part of the Board of Health. Nobody who lived in the early part of this century had ‘the ' conveniences which are considered essential today. There were good housekeepers then as now. And poor ones, then as as now. People who cared, and people who did not icare. The Youths Companion carried a story once, which has stuck “with me. Tt was a very simple story, told simply on one of ‘the in- side pages. A woman travelling by horse and buggy through the region now known as a pocket of poverty in the mountains of Kentucky, stopped when she saw a house clinging to the hillside. It was a house which gleamed with fresh. whitewash, and there were flowers in the dooryard. Chickens were confined in a fenced enclosure, not allowed to run in and out of the open door of the cabin. A middle-aged woman in a purple print cotton dress which fairly crackled with starch met the visitor on the porch and invited her in for dinner. ; Dinner was stewed chicken and corn bread, a far cry from the hog and hominy diet common to the region. The visitor inquired. How was it that the house was so dif- ferent from other houses on the hill ? + The answer was simple . . . and illuminating. The woman’s mother had died ten years before. bed she had exacted a promise from her daughter. The promise was that she would always live as if she expected company. On her death- t Whose bad housekeeping is it which lets _ Charles F. Hess Is Named Head a spot for it at about the time th;e birds started to gather in great flocks for their winter flight to the south. The cheery chickadee Who do not go away. THE WINTER BIRDS When autumn’s flaming torch has set ii The hills and vales alight, am Then gather all the feathered clans To take their southward flight. ‘The goldfinch from the thicket flees, The swallow from the eaves, : His bower in the lilac bush : FT The slim grey catbird leaves. a A From the meadow grass, from forest tree, Go bobolink and thrush, And over fields and streams and woods There falls a sudden hush. From all their summer haunts and homes The singing tribes are gone; Oh blessings on the winter birds That bravely linger on! The flicker shouts across the fields, Hobnobs with all the sparrow folk, These birds of low degree; The nuthatch makes his daily round, And hammers on the bark, Head up, head down, all one to him, With many a loud remark. I grant they are not musical, They sing no tuneful lays, But oh, they give a wondrous charm To dull and gloomy days. They break the deathlike calm that broods Above the earth’s white shroud, They twitter in the leafless trees Beneath the rainy cloud; They drift before the coming storm, Half hid in falling snow, Like little ghosts of autumn leaves Wind driven to and fro. When come the slow, dark winter morns, I hear them at my door, They chirp their thanks for scattered crumbs, And boldly beg for more. I love the robin’s matin’ hymn, The black birds whistle clear, The vesper sparrow’s dulcet call ‘When night is drawing near, The yellow-bird’s persistent chant, The phoebe’s plaintive song; But dear, as well, the simple notes That cheer the winter long. And bright the robin’s breast of red On some bleak day in spring, And gay the oriole’s flaming coat. The bluebird’s azure wing; But fair to me the winter birds In sombre brown and gray, The little brave and sturdy souls & PLENTY OF FREE PARKING Phone 287-3171 FURNITURE» v RAAAAAAFANA A ENC IN LUZERNE (eB ’ 2 AAA AAAAAAOANANNN (AP HAANAN OOOOCOOONNAHAAAIIN NNN ED GREENWALD'S ‘ONE STOP [01:11 \[€ CENTER PR Sle AWA: OOOOOCO00Q Of State Conservation Department . Charles F. Hess, Jr., Manheim, the Mansfield Advertiser Award for Pa, and formerly of Dallas, has | outstanding service to the commu- been appointed director of the State | nity. Soil and Water Conservation Com- | mission. { grees of Keystone Farmer conservationist, Mr. Hess is well | rvrorica, qualified for his new post. [ Son of the late Mr. Charles Hess, Demunds,” Mr. Hess attended Franklin Township's one | room school house and later grad- uated from Coughlin High School, | Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Sem. | Church at Mt. Joy, inary. | American Vocational two degrees in agriculture. He has taught vocational agri. culture for over 30 years, in the schools of Jefferson and Lacka- | heim Rotary Club and Alpha Gam- wanna counties, Mansfield and ma Rho and Alpha Tau Alpha hon- Manheim. While at Mansfield he | orary fraternities. helped establish the Cory Creek | Watershed Association and was its | president for ten years. His pupils Layou, Shavertown. for reforestration. munity - betterment he was given | Also four grandchildren. He holds the FFA honorary de- 2 and Mr. Hess succeeds David G. Un- | American Fagmer and has long ger, who resigned. Long an ardent | been a leader®in Future Farmers of A lay leader and fine speaker, he has frequently occupied and Mrs. | 40 Lulnit as supply pastor. Two | of his sons are Methodist ministers. Mr. Hess is a member of the of- | ficial board of Chiques Methodist member and He matriculated at Penna. | past president of Pennsylvania Vo- State University where he received | cational Association, member of the Agriculture Association, Pennsylvania and Na- tional Education Association, Man- The new State Commissioner is | narried to ‘the former Adeline They are the at Mansfield planted over one mil- | parents of two sons and a daughter; lion seedlings on surrounding farms | Rev. Charles F., III, Cato, N. Y., In recognition | Rev. Donald F., Bethel, Me.; and of his many contributions to com- | Mrs. Curtis Bonser, Upper Darby. ' § ’ » » ‘ if ¢ As much as in: , 38-0. VITAMIN A = glasses of 8,000 Units tomato juice 2 quarts VITAMIN D irradiated 1,000 Units whole milk VITAMIN E 1 Joble, {Aloha -tozepherel) i ie oil VITAMIN B, 4 pork chops 2.5 mg. : V2 Ib. 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