"SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 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. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-State subscriptions, $4.50 a year; $3.00 six months or less. Students away from home $3.00 a term; Out-oi- State $3.50. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c, Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. National Advertising Representative AIR ( R AMERICAN NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES Inc. ATLANTA e CHICAGO eo DETROIT e LOS ANGELES e NEW YORK Va lf” Editorially Speaking i Fire Is A Frightening Thing If there are danger spots in our schools, we ought to know them, talk about them, and do something about them. Rubber mats become frayed or scuffed with the daily passage of many feet. A curled mat could cause a fright- ened youngster to fall, and be trampled by other frighten- ed children. More deaths in school fires are caused by trampling then by any other single circumstance. It is absolutely essential that no carelessness be con- doned, and no lack of constant vigilance tolerated. The recent fire drill pinpointed 'some danger spots which could result in disaster if flames were roaring at the heels of desperate children, fleeing for their lives. All of the danger spots have ridiculously easy cures. Probably, after the report of the firemen, they have al- ready been taken care of . . . not because this is fire- prevention week, but because it is commonsense to make everything as safe for children as humanly possible. The only school that burned down out here in the Back Mountain was the old Trucksville school, and that at night when there were no pupils and no children inside. Parents in Trucksville breathed more easily when they learned that the old firetrap was gone. With the advent of modern school buildings, most of the hazards have been overcome. But if there is one single thing which can trip a child, no amount of careful planning of safety devices, no blue- printing of escape routes, can ever be enough to insure that children will live. SUMMER’ s END Summer sheds her crown of verdant green And mow the lacey ferns that once adorned her hair Are withered , brittle, drab; the sheen Of summer radiance is gone; now frosty air Lies crisp and cold and in the flower bed The marigolds await the moonday sun— With drooping head. The stalks of peonies along the gardem path Whose springtime glory dazzled every eye, In drooping disarray mow wait the winter's wrath And turn a withered face to windswept, autumn sky. Yet lingering here, amid decay, there grows, With springtime fragrance still— A single, lovely rose. A lonely robin searches vainly on the lawn Then, brushed by falling leaves, takes southward wing, The sun is late and lazy bringing dawn And arches high and cold on westward swing. But oh, the glory of the might, when all the world is still And harvest moon spills silver beauty— O’er the hill. ’ Summer fades and autumn woos the hills and vales With dazzling raiment; russet, scarlet, brown and gold And then, with fickle disregard, sends whistling gales, Till, stripped of brilliant garb, the earth stands bare and cold. But now, on bleak, bare branch, a cardinal returns to sing That just beyond the winter's blasts— Lies yet another spring. —WIiLLIARD G. SEAMAN Lehman Township 1963-1964 School Audit REVENUE Net Amount Taxes Collected: Property. othe Xo BLL Uo LLL ER a $106,783.81 Per Capita iss. . b 2. oir Eg a AEE pr 9,642.10 DE NGUEIL a car's @i + 2n worn viv 03 sn 35 Tenis Eol oles sv wa Roms 6,670.17 fPuition Irom Patrons - i». ic ior veleialn aibia Shainin au diana 658.94 Rent from TownshipiBus ..-.:..:.5. viehin. Loni LLL 10.00 State Appropriation Teaching and Tuition Units ----- 83,320.73 State Approp. Reorganization Incentives -:.--v...on... 6,351.10 State Approp. Extension Education ..--“%............ 93.03 | State Approp. Homebound Instruction -.--...-....... 140.62 | State Approp. Closed Schools .....:...c.cnneiinunin 1,600.00 State Approp. Transportation -.....ivae 500 12,760.59 State Approp. Vocational Education ---.:-vvvnounen... 446.73 State Approp. ‘Rentals x: nade in itis substi by mds 16,995.00 Starting {Balance July <1, 1983 ver vis simon 2,091.95 | $247,564.77 EXPENSES GeneralfCOntrol : . ici. . iniathivi casas ioe sisi sna sds de $ 6,182.66 Transportation (Twp. Bus) -.:v-vevnn.nen in iin 2,919.00 Fixed ORarges: .- i ddr vi vais va wa se all eS gh 142.39 i Rental Payment to Authority ...................... 10,022.65 Interest Payment on Bond ....c.c.eeiin.iianoin. iin 256.67 Lake-Lehman Joint Board ......................00.. 213,850.00 Wyoming Valley Technical Inst. ...........0.......... 56.10 Lehman Merged School District -+ «7. .v. vein oe 10,122.71 COUNLY, HOIASSES./-« - sis iv vininisctisin Suit + sin vom maskot 3 WH in Se 3 4,012.59 i Total Receipts—Starting balance -............... $247,564.77 Total Expenditures .......... cic. nian $247,564.77 Bank Balance July 1, 1964 ............c.ovnuun.ile $ ° 000.00 Auditors: Jean M. Agnew 4 Barbara G. Simms ; Pa 1 BR. Oris THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1964 Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago Municipal ownership of the local water company was discussed at Dallas Borough Council meeting Tax-payers Association was push- ing the idea. Harveys Lake new municipal building was well under construct- ion. Stone was being quarried. Architect was L. V. Lacy. Cost was $13,500, donated by summer re- sident Daniel C. Roberts. Cardinals were world champs, Dizzy Dean pitching, and Tigers losing 11 - 4. Valuable clay deposits at the foot of Schooley Mountain at Nox- en, were expected to be worked be- fore too long. Milton Hettesheimer, former owner, had been convinced of their value in manufacture of rubber tires. A high school band was organiz- ed at Dallas Township, and Dallas similar band. Jim Besecker stopped being the local Ford dealer, and became the local Chevrolet dealer. Local relief office moved to new quarters two doors away on Main Street. A. H. Rainey was local re- presentative. A 40 - foot tower was being erected on the mountain near Shickshiny to be used by sagingers re-mapping Pennsylvania. Hiram Blizzard, 64, died of a Mrs. Lucy A. Williams died in Shavertown. Back Mountain Democratic Club was well attended, Leo Mundy and William C. Griffiths speakers. The Queen Mary, second largest ship in the world, was launched at | Glasgow. 20 Years Ag9 Irving Dardis. son ot the Shaver- town postmaster, was missing on | the Aachen front. He was comm- ander of the 109th infantry. Drag-racing on the highway was as prevalent then ag now. Alan Hoyt, -18, Charles Goodrich, 17 racing against Clyde Campbell, with passengers Lester Campbell and Dorwood Kocher on the Dallas-Ide town highway. Two of the youths had been involved in a fatal hit-run accident when David Roberts was killed in Fernbrook. Lester Hoover, Idetown, and Floyd Wolfe, Pikes «Creek, were serving together in the Signal Corps in France. Never met until they entered the service. Berlin station announcer broad- cast news that Paul Nulton, Beau- mont, was a POW. Brokenshire’s farm carload of . cabbage freight station. history now.) Frank Ferry was reelected Legion Commander. shipped a from Dallas (Railroad is ancient Pacific Fleet; John Szela, New Guinea; William J. Fletcher, Pacific; George B. Turn, Pacific; Charles Murph, Cherry Point; Richard | Gibson, California; Paul Snyder, | Gulfport; 'H. W. Bogart, Marines; Wilbur Loveland, Georgia; George Sorber, Alabama; Thomas Cad- walader, France; Frank and Marvin Morgan in England; William A. Johnson, France; Calvin Culp, 8th | Air . Force; Robert Davis hospital | in Philly; Douglas Riddell has the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross. Served as nose gunner, transferred to Texas as instructor. Married: Nora Lally to Lean M. Austin. Eagle Scout awards. for James Huston Jr. and James Walters. 10 Years Ago # # # “Should the charter of Dallas Borough be annulled?” was the burning question on the ballot, coming up for a vote In November. It was to be discussed at a Town Meeting moderated by Eugene Farley. Dallas ambulance was receiving gifts: oxygen, crowbar, blankets, folding wheelchair, rope. Lehman was within a hair of meeting standards set by the State for schools. Clarence Boston, Nicholson, died after an 8-week battle for life. Himmler Theatre was presenting “The Robe,” in cinemascope, newly | installed. Boston Store opened its parking ramp. Married: Rita Petroski to Edward Stempien. Clara Patton to Harry W. Wells. Lois Jean Ide to Fred P. Hughes. Died: Mrs. Sarah Carey, 74 former- ly of Beaumont. Mrs. Kate Grasser, 85, Dallas. Mrs. Isabelle Cook La- Barre, 93, Orange. new Librarian Cooperates The new librarian at Back Moun- tain Memorial Library spent hours looking up books to help along a project in the Dallas Post, searching for information about the vanished lumber industry. Mrs. Mary Gale finally located two ancient volumes, not even cat- alogued, hiding back in the maga- zine room, that contained what the Post needed for the forthcoming tabloid. — READ THE RADING Borough was planning to form aj heart attack at his home in Noxen. In the Outpost: William H. Parsons, | POST — | of Tripoli. The fourth 17, 1944: The entire island—2% by 1% miles—was of coral, covered with intense tropical growth. In come places we had to leap from rock to rock to go forward. It took us ten painful, bloody days to root out the enemy from the bowl itself and the cave posi- tions along all but the north side. We were attacking from east, west and south. The coral and jungle were so difficult that engineers drove their bulldozers right up among our leading platoons, mak- ing trails for handcarrying food and ammunition and taking out the wounded. We had to use nearly half our men in carrying parties. Sitting high on their tractors, the engineers were excellent targets for snipers. While we were fighting for the bowl, our behind a tank. cannon fired at the tank—TUncle Ben's arm was almost severed by shell fragments and his radio op- erator was killed. We laid Colonel Venable on the aid station table where he calmly discussed the sit- uation with his executive, hulking Lieutenant Colonel Ernest H. Wil- son. While the surgeon bandaged him, Venable impressed on Wilson the important points of the battle sit- uation and turned over command. He was in great pain, but never mentioned it. Then we carried Uncle Ben to Red beach and sent him out on a boat to a ship. (Twen- | ty years later I shook hands with | Venable. He gave me his right | hand—the arm had been completely | restored. I also met our wounded | surgeon of the beach, whose right | wrist had recovered.) | The 322nd Infantry was now the | only regiment fighting to overcome | the Japanese defense of Angaur. The 321st Infantry had been sent on September 21 to Peleliu to at- tack alongside the 1st Marines, who were suffering very heavy casual- ties. We still had not driven the enemy from their main battle posi- | tion, even though we had cleared the natural bowl and our artillery had blasted away the jungle foliage. But now we had an urgent dead- line. Just south of the enemy] main position and immediately to our rear, hundreds of aviation en- gineers were levelling the coral to make a mile leng airstrip. needed for a bomber group to at- tack the Philippines in support of MacArthur's landing in October, and for cargo planes to airlift supplies to his troops. If a Japanese fleet should at- tempt to use the Palau group as a base for counteraction against attack the enemy ships. | We had to eliminate the Japanese on Angaur island so that air opera- tions could be conducted in security. We had less than a month to com- plete our fight. For another week we continued large 155mm howitzers directly against the caves. We uncovered a big concrete command post of the enemy commander, Major Goto, and blasted it while he and his staff retreated. "We worked small groups of men through crevices to positions where they could snipe at enemy machine guns and foxholes. We discovered that we could attack at night just as well as the Japanese, and we be- gan to blow in caves during the dark. We had to do this during a week of continuous heavy tropic rain. We all were covered with slime, but the wounded suffered from it the worst. Wiles and Stratagems Now we decided to change tac- tics. We had whittled down the enemy-held cliff position to a 500 yard front, and the pinnacles and | | HEINE EEC EE CIN RR RC Colonel Benjamin W. | Venable had gone well forward just | A Japanese 47mm | installment of the For They're The Secret Weapon Of The United States Marines by Lt. Col. Thomas M. B. Hicks III ‘And here, the Wilcats finish off their saga of the landing on the Island of Angaur twenty years ago. amphibious maneuvers, .the men of the 8lst composed a wicked little parody on the Halls of Montezuma, not to mention the Shores Trained by the Marines for their battle that began September caves in its rear. This was hem- med-in ground. Coionel Wilson got out his copy of “Maxims of Sun Tsu,” the English translation of the writings of the ancient Chinese scholar-general. med-in ground. employ wiles and Startagems, advised the sage. And so we set up sniper teams on our own captured pinnacles, overlooking the Japanese trails. We put observers to watch holes where rain water accumulated, and trails leading to the ocean—we believed the Japanese were getting thirsty, hungry too, so we set out booby- trapped boxes of food and water cans. Other food and water we ambushed. We placed barbed wire all about the enemy position so they would have trouble sseaping at night. Day and night we sent combat patrols to attack caves as we loca~ ted them. In some cases our soldiers had to use rope ladders to get to imperial “In hem- | the tops of cliffs and chasms, to fire into the caves. In many places a platoon or squad would find it- self working through a trail be- tween high pinnacles or walls. There would be sharp taps from above | as the Japanese set hand grenades, then rolled them down to explode | among the helpless men in single file. Our men would call in mortar and artillery fire on the enemy dis- covered atop a pinnacle. to hurry but we’ couldn’t afford to | kill our men needlessly. A partic- ular team might be only 60 feet from the enemy. Its members had to avoid showing themselves while | they waited for a Japanese rifle- man or gunner to make a mistake. If they saw him they killed him, ‘Lien advanced a few yards. Each | cave was attacked with rifles, gre- nades, mortars and flame flowers. It was blown shut with explosives. Then gasoline was pumped in. The gasoline was set afire. In this way | we hoped to clear out the rear of | the cave and its connecting tunnel and possibly drive enemy from re- lated caves. We could not leave any tunnel for the enemy to use to fire on our men from the rear. In eleven days we gradually squeezed the Japanese into a cave Le iyarea only 100 vagds long and. 50 yards wide. Japanese began try- We had | | In Pied Piper VIRGINIA BURKE Misericordia senior Virginia Burke will play Tonkie, a nice mouse- | character in THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN which the Wilkes-Barre | Junior League in cooperation with College Misericordia will present on October 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and No- vember 1. The play tells the story of Hamelin town fifteen years after the children had been Jed into the mountain by the Pied Piper. Directed by Gerald Godwin, au- thor, Misericordia Players will give eight performances: Friday, October 23, at 7:300 p.m.; Saturday, October 24 at 10:30 a.m. and at 2:00 p.m; Sunday, October 25, at 2:00 p.m. Joe Kelly as Thomas Williebold Piper and Bob Hensley as Mayor Ludwig Von Grimmelhuffelhausen. Other cast members are: Leslie Rosie, Donna Salameda, Anne Gia- calone, Bonnie Glennon, Anne Hur- | ley, Flo Dorsam, Jan Beveridge, | Jeanne Gallagher, Kathryn Bohn, Bonnie De Rose, Andrea Glod, 'Char- | lene Smith, Mary Pat McGeehin, 1 Sandra 2cstupack. | An original music score is bein written by students of Misericordia’s , department of music, Annette Oshin- | skie and Anne Giacalone. Costumes | have been designed by Theresa os and Bonnie Glennon, | seniors. Sets were designed by Mr. | (To, and George Roberts. | SPAGHETTI SUPPER SATURDAY - | | Don't forget the spaghetti supper Saturday night - at Idetown Fire Hall for benefit of the Jonathan Davis Fire Company. Serving starts. at 5, ends at 8. Tickets at the door or from any fireman. orous assault on the Japanese posi- | tions there. The marines had killed | 6,200 enemy and lost 800 killed |ing to work through our wire at and another 4,500 wounded. There It was | night in groups. Our observers and | flares were effective and we kille them as they came. fore MacArthur's landing ‘at Leyte on October 20, we killed .the Jap- the U. S. fleets, our bombers would | completed for to attack the north cliffs, shooting anese commander, Major Goto, in our wire. His samurai sword was strapped on his back, and his blouse was stuffed with Japanese war bonds. Now we knew that the enemy resistance was almost over. The airfield on Angaur had been two weeks and the bombers had been raiding the areas | of 20,000 Japanese troops on Babel- thaup, the largest island in the Palau group, to keep them tied | down. They began to attack Leyte on October 20. In the weeks follow- | ing hundreds of combat and trans- ry UIE Ea] | port planes used our strip. Man For Man By October 23 we had cleaned out the last of the Japanese caves and no enemy could be detected. We had killed about 1,000 zealous Nipponese, veterans of the China war, who would not make suicide charges and had to be rooted out one by one. We had lost more than 200 killed and 800 wounded—one man for one man. Only 29 enemy had voluntarily surrendered to us. The other 20 captives had been helpless wounded. Many other wounded had killed themselves with hand grenades. Meanwhile on Peleliu island ‘the badly shot-up 1st Marines were fully relieved on October 20, and both our sister regiments—the 321st and 323rd Infantry—continued the vig- SCC 33 CEES ESC ES ES AE Ea SERVING RESIDENTS OF THE GREATER DALLAS AREA FUNERAL DIRECTORS A funeral home should be carefully selected . . . before the need arises. Back Mountain residents are invited to compare Snowdon facilities . . . services . . . prices. HAROLD HAROLD Te Tan The night be- | were still 5,000 more stubborn Jap- | anese in the fortified peaks and | valleys of Peleliu. Our Wildcats took until Novem- ber 27 to exterminate 5,600 enemy | and capture 300 others with losses of 400 of our men killed and 1,400 wounded — but we simply moved more deliberately than the marines’ youngsters, and so our | were lower. Off to New Caledonia Then we began to move by ship jo New (Caledonia to refit. A lot of our men were sick with dysen- tery. In fact, we found we were literally riddled with amoebic dys- entery. It took until May 1945 for enough of our men to. recover so we could go back into action mop- ping up Japanese units around Or- moc, Leyte in the Philippines. We were then under Douglas Mac- Arthur's command and after the surrender went to northern Honshu, Japan as occupation troops until we were inactivated in January, 1946. We were Army troops again, but we still sang our own parody of the Marines Corps hymn: “From the caves of Angaur island, To the shores of Peleliu, The Marines, ’tis true they took the beach, But soon met Waterloo. Then they sent the Wildcat soldiers in To stop those Banzai screams, For we're the Secret Weapon of i The United States Marines.” CTT ESHER RE IEE ETRE STR Cc. SNOWDON Cc. SNOWDON, JRC Zi Hh PSHE ES EY Leading parts will be played by | casualties | DALLAS. PENNSYLVANIA Pillar To Post... By Hix e — It is clearly marked over the Speed Counter at the market: six items or less. So the lady plunks down fifteen items on the counter, hesitates over whether to go back and get more oranges, dark rye she wants instead of decides that it's vienna bread, makes the switch, fumbles around in her handbag for bills, and settles for writing a check. The four other people in the one foot to the other. They're all in a hurry . . speed check-out line-up shift from . that’s why they snatched up a couple of items they simply had to have for supper, and made for the speed exit instead of lining up behind the truck traffic in the other check-outs. The lady can’t find her fountain-pen, and one is procured for her. She makes out the check, waves to the young boy with her to pick up the bulging sack of groceries, and sails out, completely ob- livious to the swollen glares of the hoi poloi. The next four customers go through the check-out in record time, one minute per customer. It's exasperating to be stymied behind a hundred jars of baby food, but it’s even more exasperating to be held up in a speed-up exit. : One nice thing, however . . did she: cash in any coupons. . she wasn’t using food stamps. That would have been the pay-off, Nor probably lending to fusifiables homicide, October October 7: CARDS TAKE escort necessary. SR ener eer KEEPING POSTED “ a game of World Series. 8: CROWD BOOS Prime Minister at rally, police October 8: TSHOMBE LEAVES Cairo, vol admitted to _. . conference. October 8: YANKS CLOBBER CARDS. October 9: October pigeons released, October October Army Officer. J1- technicolor, October October October ISBELL FORMING in Hurricane cradle. 9:. OLYMPIC GAMES open in Tokyo, 10,000 spectators duck. 10: QUEBEC COLD-SHOULDERS QUEEN. 10: KIDNAPPED in Venezuela, United States THRFE MEN IN SPACE, by the Soviet, in 12: CARDINALS AND YANKS neck to neck. 12: LT. COL. MICHAEL SMOLEN released by Terrorists, unharmed. October 13: YOU-TOO, sav Republicans and Democrats, biting in the clinches. * Ed Mrs. Reynolds’ Daughter | Has Fatal Heart Attack Nancy Buckingham Dorrance | Reynolds Coffinberry, ‘Nan’ to all! who knew her well, died suddenly Monday evening while bidding fare- well to guests at her home in Kent, Conn. She was buried: today in Kent. Mrs. Coffinberry and her husband had recently moved from Larch-- mont, N.'Y. to Kent, purchasing a historic home, and looking forward | to years ‘of retirement. They had both been extremely active in Larchmont, where they belonged to St. John’s Episcopal Church. Mrs. Coffinberry was the first woman to be elected to the vestry. Mr. Coffinberry served as Mayor. The couple took a vital in- terest in civic and cultural affairs. Born in Wilkes-Barre, daughter of Mrs. Dorrance Reynolds and the late Col. Dorrance Reynolds, former president of Wyoming National | Bank, Nancy entered Vassar upon | graduation from Wilkes-Barre In- stitute, obtaining her AB Degree. She was a member of Colonial Dames and the D.AR. berry of Cleveland, was Mayor of Larchmont. Surviving, in addition to her hus- band, are: her mother, living now at Goodleigh Farm, Dallas; two 1 Dallas Her husband John Brooks Coffin- ¥ o® | Steinway Sauare Piano | Mrs. Maude Yeisley is wondering | what to do with a hundred year old square Steinway piano. It is the model with the four heavy legs, and the scrolled music rack, with | hand-made hammers. Mrs. Yeisley has had it for over sixty years. The Steinway piano | company has a history of the piano, from the time it was purchased by people named Loomis on South Franklin Street. A piano such as this is both an asset and a liability. Most piano tuners throw up their hands and refuse to tackle it. But it has his- toric value, ‘and somebody who ap- preciates it, should have it. When Mrs. Yeisley moved from her home on Foster Street to her present home at 231 Main Street, Dallas, she left the big piano be- | 'nind. She would like to have it given a good home in a church Sunday School room or a big base- ment playroom. Mrs. both casualties of the march of | progress. Her house will be torn down to make way for the new Postoffice. daughters: Mrs. Peter von Storch, Greenwich, Conn.;. Mrs. S. Napier 1“Smith, Couthbury, Conn.; two sis- ters, Patizzie Reynolds of Good- leigh Farm; and Mrs. C. 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