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; Qut-of- State $3.50. Back issues, more than one week old, 15¢c, 7 Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years - Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago Scarlet Fever prevalent for some weeks in this area was on the wane. Trucksville Fire Company organiz- its own basketball team. Editorially Speaking THERE ARE THOSE WHO HUNGER There are people in the world who are hungry. People who go to bed each night, millions of them throughout the world, knowing that the brief surcease of sleep will free them from the pangs of hunger only momentarily. People who will wake up in the middle of the night, still hungry, still hopeless that tomorrow will bring any- thing better. This seems incredible to the people in these United States. We do not know what hunger is. : We do not know what the desolation of war can bring to a suffering people. We have riches beyond the dreams of avarice of some of these people who nightly shelter themselvs in what poor coverings they can find, watching their children slowly starve to death. a The poorest of our people are richer than these suf- fering waifs, hopelessly and helplessly battling against overwhelming odds. The three great major faiths are struggling to allevi- ate the misery of the world, small voices crying in the wilderness, but nonetheless crying, and in great need of being heard. : Do not close your ears to the appeal. If you are a Catholic, make your contribution, and make it thankfully, through the Bishop’s Thanksgiving Clothing Collection—many people are never warm enough. If you are a Protestant, make it through the Share Our Substance Program. And again, share with the thankfulness that you are warm, and that you have enough to eat. If you are Jewish, you have a marvelous organiza- tion, The United Jewish Appeal. Be generous. You live in a country where you are not crushed under the heel of a cruel dictator. Help others to live. Thanksgiving should be a living thing, not just a day on the calendar. WHEEL-CHAIRS STILL ROLLING The Dallas Post cannot permit the passing of Mrs. Paul Bedford to go unmarked, for though Mrs. Bedford did not belong to the Back Mountain in person, in a larger sense she belonged to all of Pennsylvania. It was Mrs. Bedford who set in motion the Wheel- Chair Club, an organization which has spread not only to all of Pennsylvania, but to all over the country, and in more recent years, has penetrated even behind the Iron Curtain. : At the time of her death, 600 chairs were in use, some in Iran, sonie in the Philippines. Many a bedfast invalid took a new lease on life when provided with wheels, and the burden of caring for the sick was lightened in many a household. Seldom was a wheelchair left idle. The minute it was returned as no longer needed, it was repaired and sent forth again. : Mrs. Bedford had the means to further her own charities. To her, it was, an engrossing work, making life more bearable for the Shut-Ins. Many people start a favorite project, then drop it when it becomes burdensome, but not Mrs. Bedford. It was not until fatal illness was upon her that she dropped the reins, placing them securely in good hands, that of the Kiwanis Club. Wheel-chairs will keep on rolling, in memory of Mrs. Bedford. : inh ay OVERLOADED DOCTORS : Most doctors around the Back Mountain agree that if the Medicare Bill passes, the volume of paperwork will be so great that they will have no time to attend their patients. The required paper work in insurance cases already takes up what small spare time they have. Heaven help the general practitioner. He is already overloaded. oe % And in spite of shrieks from the metropolitan press, he is far from disappearing. He's doing fine out here in the Back Mountain. Dr FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT Sunday was the first anni- versary of the assassination of the President of the United States. It was observed in a day- long program in television, in a succession of ceremonials con- ducted at the grave-site in Ar- lington Cemetery, in the news media . . . and in the heart of every citizen of the United J States. Because a part of every citi- zen died a year ago when the solemn words were intoned over the air waves. Citizens who had clung to the radio as if their lives, as well as that of the President de- pended upon it, knew instantly that it was indeed a matter of history, when the measured words of the announcer began: John . Fitzgerald . . . Kennedy. > SO EEC SO SAVES SAMIR HICH SHE AEH EES C2 EEE SAA EE LC BED ETC TEE ET OE SEE LE ACTER 3 Carvertown Grange actors were fine enough to be entered in the state wide play tourney. Scoutmaster James Kozemchak, leader of Huntsville Boy Scout Troop, urged residents to contribute their old toys for repair, with scouts giv- ing newly renovated items to needy children of Back Mountain. Dr. M. J. Borthwick opened med- ical offices on Center Street, taking up residence with C. S. Hildebrant Mr. Schwartz, Shavertown, was setting up schedules for the Rural League Baseball Teams of which he was president. Dances at Kunkle were becoming increasingly popular. 20 Years Ago Representatives of 17 organizat- ions. from Lehman, Lake, Dallas Borough, Kingston and Dallas Town- ships were invited to attend an open forum to discuss formation of a Back Mountain Library Association. Dallas Rotary Club was sponsoring effort. Pvt. Charles Kinsman, Jr., grad-. uate of Lehman High School, class of 1938 was killed in action on the Belgian front. First snowfall of the season fell on November 20 continuing for two days and blanketing the region. Staff Sgt. Thomas Nevhard, Dal- las, convalescing in England was a- warded the Bronze Star. Elmer Parrish, 70, prominent realtor and developer of - Parrish Heights died in his sleep. Frank Ferrv took over as Comm- ander of Daddow Isaacs Post. William Gensel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gensel, Jackson Town- ship, was missing in action over Aus- tria. Gensel served as radio ope- rator aboard a B-24 Bomber of the 15th Air Force based in Ttaly. He was a graduate of Kingston Town- shin High School. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davis, Ide- town, purchased Hislop’s Restaurant. Two local Air Force officers, Flight Officer Donald Hoover. Hunlocks Creek and Capt. Thomas Lutz; Cam- bria, were cited by Gen. Charles De Gaulle. A Staff Sgt. Kenneth Jones, Trucks- ville, was awarded the Purple Heart. Servicemen heard from Tom Tem- plin, © France; Frank A. Wgyrsch, France; Walter Darrow, Postmaster, New Orleans: Dick Phillips., U.S. Navy: Pvt. Sterling Meade, M. Sgt. Flovd Young, New Mexico; James Taylor. Deaths: Emmett Murtha, 28. 10 Years Ago Henry C. Kramer purchased Chapel Lawn Memorial Park along Harveys Lake Highway. Dale Warmouth, former Dallas Who in American Universities for the second time. Frank Mathers, III, brings his new bride, Alwina Lohn, Germany to start housekeeping in Trucksville. John Sheehan, Huntsville Road, was awarded Eagle Scout rating. Mrs. May Pollock, Trucksville was reported in fair condition at Nesbitt | Hospital after crashing her. . car against a tree to avoid hitting a deer. Dallas Community Ambulance Association voted ‘to purchase a Cadillac Superior Ambulance to re- place one destroyed crash, Henry Linker, 13, was in guarded condition at Nesbitt Hospital after being struck by a hit and run driver on Harveys Lake Highway near Birch Grove. J | Married: Joyce Cavill, to Fayette Williams, both of Harveys Lake; Eleanor Snell was the Thanksgiving bride of! Theodore Biggs and Anne Adams, Trucksville, became the wife THT DALLAS, POST, TURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1064 ~~ ~~ DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA November 18: MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK- ING, term applied by FBI's Hoover on the Warren assassination report. SNOW CLOSES schools in California. 95 BASES to be closed, throwing 63,000 out of work. CONGO DELAYS execution of missionary Paul Carlson. November 19: SCREAMS HEARD as War Department makes public its program of belt-tightening, in- cluding closing of Portsmouth Navy Base. November 20: FORD PLANT ready to go back into pro- + duction after pact with union at Sterling Town- ship, Michigan. BELGIAN PARATROOPERS (In U.S. helicopters) ready to rescue white hostages in Stanleyville. BLIZZARD in Iowa. November 21: VERRAZANO NARROWS bridge opened, land values in Staten Island skyrocket. November 22: FIRST ANNIVERSARY of assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. RAILROAD STRIKE postponed. ; FORD CARS again begin rolling off the assembly ine, 5 IN THE CONGO, government troops marching on ‘Stanleyville, helicopters with Belgian paratroopers standing by. Execution of missionary again de- layed. November 23: DROUGHT CONTINUES, deep freeze diminishes hopes of rains before it is too late. Late crops badly hit. = Better Construction. of the new postoffice | installation ‘is just around the cor-] ner, and contractor Ray Hedden | comes through again as what we can | only call a. “big: man”, not just in size ‘of operation, but in scope of outlook. - Instead of falling to the ground in shreds, the old. RR station, one of the | 5 ) symbols of Dallas center for .years, |2nd Cliff promised to take her out; is to be the most colorful Christmas | Reuel Lasher, who Jon: my Better | | Leighton Deer Prize: this time last | year: and Danny Gula, selling tick- ets, who looked at this hand, said | to himself “104 looks good,” bought gifts of the year. contractor, who is busy as all get- out with all kinds of projects, gives an idea how some people, and a very | few, I might add, find time and in- | . clination to stop in the middle of it | Admitted To Nesbitt all and DO something. pair; stands as’ the other vestige of suffering from pneumonia. time past—a once wonderful age when trains flashed through the Back Mountain country to the great world down | yonder. 5 What shall we do with the Noxen bage cans in the world. station? It stimulates my imagif- ation much more than the new post- new restaurant that arose on the vestige of Bruce Renard’s above the | lake—the one featuring exuberant | prices, may turn into a club. some local names noted on the in- | corporation=papers.) . ; Post staff member named to “Who's |: Thursday's. precipitation. | deer hunting is in Loyalville. say I told you to. is said to be holding up well, and the | old one was’ sold to two guys from | the Valley who will use it for a | hunting-mobile. Road, ready for you-know-what. | UYSUnY guys seen looking down the bank next to the 118 sawmill every morning just before 8, were asked if they were looking for deer. Nope, In & ‘revert just checking their traps. Gun Club sells between forty and fifty books. of ‘chances every year. Wow! Says he: dosen't take much active interest in the club otherwise, so he feels it's the least he could do. all the way from near Emma's on the: “Trail”: HC Falls: 3 = a Leighton Never — é — SOME - WINNERS | William Curwood, on That thig idea should occur to the |it, and it was good. Noxen Station Lawrence, Among the winners at the Le- |gion turkey party: Representative the ticket but thor ibl he bought as he walked in the door: | = £Te Yas no posable wav. | Cliff Foss, who may just have a | turkey for sale, as his wife says Thanksgiving is’ their anniversary, 7," was admitted to Noxen Station, in rather poor re- Nesbitt Hospital Sunday morning, D. Laning Jr., Idetown. ice and “lumber | SEEN AND HEARD | — Popular speculation is that the | (Also, | Lawr- ence is son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Americans have the best-fed gar- The ave- rage household in’ this country ‘dis- cards about 200 calories of edible office ‘and Lederal office building at per day for each member of Dallas, which is going to look kind of | the family! federal, if you know what I mean. | FOR MODERN PRINTING, TRY THE POST Read The Post Classifieds + .REEPING. POSTED. +L ui ail | The Dallas Post does not ordi- narily print literary efforts’ of chil- dren from other areas, but this | one shows a great deal of imagi- | nation. And in addition, it was | written by a ten-year-old grand- | son of a steadfast friend of the | Dallas Post, Ralph DeWitt, portrait | | photographer in Forty Fort. Young Richard DeWitt goes to school in Needham, Mass.,, a stu- | | dent in the fifth grade. THE LEAF | One cold brisk afternoon on Oc- | tober 24th, 1964 there were piles | | of leaves on either side of Page | Road and I was one of the leaves. All of a sudden a leaf vacuum truck | appeared up on the hill and I warn- ed the other leaves. I was hoping | a gust of wind would blow us all | | out of the street and into the near- est yard, but it did not happen. | Then the truck turned into the | next street down the road, what a | break! I thought for a moment, | but it just came back down Page | Road and it would be frightening, | | for all the leaves, including me, | | would be sucked ‘into the vacuum | | truck to be ‘burned, and I would | | | | | never see the world again. | Soon it was nightfall and every- | thing’ was still: Then I fell asleep. | |I tried not to dream about the | | vacuum truck coming up the street, | | but it was no use. { | Soon again it was light and it | was Friday. Children were walk- | ing and some were riding their | bikes to school. I heard a loud! noise at the top of the hill. I told | the other leaves and- they were | astonished. We saw a man with | a mask on carrying a vacuum thing, and scooping up all the leaves he could. | Then it happened, I was vacuum- | ed and burned. I tried to survive The end Youth For Christ The Greater Wilkes-Barre Youth | | For Christ will meet on Saturday | | night in the Y.F.C. building in Ed-! | wardsville at 7:45 p.m. The chorus {will practice at 6:45 Jerry Major, , | Y.F.C. director of Scranton and the | | chorus will be guests. ] A blind musician, Mr. Webber, | who plays the piano, accordian and | guitar will entertain, David Birch- | {ley will be the guest speaker. Re- | freshments will be available. Did You head The Trading Post ono Tl iso lpensive-equipment. To satisfy market demands, Dan- ish livestock men changed their Landrace hog from a fat hog to one so long and lean that today most’ Danish pigs actually have two extra | ribs. 1 Almanac didn’t hit the mark on | Ask Eddie Ungvarsky how the | Don’t | : Centermoreland’s new ambulance | Cinder piles are out on Huntsville One member of Carverton Rod and Birth’s towed one wreck last week of Edward Clark, Wyoming. ville; Mrs. Mary Gavlick, 55, Beau- mont, John Klimovitch, 71, Kunkle. WHY PAY MORE FOR Dressy . . . Christmas Clothes Juniors - Missy - Half Sizes Save Up To... BACHMAN'S Dress Center —Opening Evenings ‘til 9— OVERHEAD? 30% 460 N. Main St. Wilkes-Barre From— Pillar To Post... By Hix A roast turkey, crisply browned and flanked by cranberry sauce, isn’t quite the treat it used to be, when turkey was synonymous with Thanksgiving and seldom seen at other seasons of the year. These days, the chain stores offer turkey at almost any season, and the Thanksgiving turkey, though it forms the focal point of the Feast of the Year, has had a little of its gloss removed by turkey at Christmas, turkey at Easter, Turkey on the Fourth of July, and for wedding anniversaries. But it would still be a sacrilege to serve anything else on the last Thursday in November. With stuffing of course, and hot biscuits and gravy, and cole- slaw, and mashed potatoes, and crisp stuffed celery. Topped off, naturally, with pumpkin pie. The pumpkin pie goes in our family until later on in the after- noon, when the overstuffed sensation accompanying a Thanksgiving dinner has somewhat dissipated, and it is possible to take aboard more groceries. One may be forgiven for being a glutton one day out of the year. This year, for the first time in almost fifty years, somebody else is going to roast the turkey, and it will seem very odd not to have tall grandchildren prowling the kitchen, waiting for a sight of the browning bird, and a bootleg hot biscuit, drenched with butter. But is is far easier for one person to transport herself to Vir- ginia, than for a carload to transport itself to Dallas. Add to that, the fact that one half of the twin.combination is singing Thanksgiving morning at the service in the Cathedral choir in’ Washington, and rehearsing for Sunday services Friday evening, and you can see how limited the time would be for a family get- together. Better far to abandon tradition and catch a bus for Virginia. Friends and well-wishers have been so adamant at my driving the 235 miles so soon after getting out of the hospital, that it has seemed best to accede to their wishes, and let the Greyhound driver do his stuff while I go into a comfortable coma. It is a nuisance not to have a car at instant service. And it will mean that somebody will have to drive me to Wilkes-Barre, and somebody meet me in Washington, but that is the price for the trip this Thanksgiving. : For one who feels absolutely naked without a car, this is a serious matter. Could be it would be easier just to stay home and open a can of soup. But on the other hand . . . The best way to do is just play the cards as they are dealt. And something tells me that I will be on a bus for Washington, well in advance of roast turkey. | pastime. introduced this healthful indulgence to his pupils. : exercise, and does not call for ex- | 1 Carlyle, Emerson were walkers. YOUR HEALTH i ici i leasurable : Peabstaticimn ie, © 208 his perambulations. Aristotle, the Greek hilosoher, | dom in walking. Walking is an enjoyable form of | recommended. miles at a strech. Richard H. 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