QARCOTION A — PAGR.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 ald, 15c. Momber Audit Bureau of Circulations , Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Member National Editorial Association Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Editor and Publisher Associate Editors— Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Leicaron R. Scorr, Jr. Myra Z. RISLEY wm nals Wome ene wae le Seaial Editor! ...........:.., Mrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON Advertising Manager: |. ..... 0. 0 Louise Marks Business Manager. .... -... i 00 Doris R. MALLIN Circulation Manager: . i... uci. Mgrs. VeLma Davis ea SANDRA STRAZDUS Accounting National Advertising Representative R AMERICAN NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES ic. TLANTA e CHICAGO ee DETROIT .e¢ LOS ANGELES eo NEW YORK Editorially Speaking MERCH MEANS RED CROSS Remember when you were in Korea, and the Red Cross arranged to have you come home in a hurry, cutting all tape, when there was a death in the family? Remember when your mother was critically injured in a highway accident, and the Red Cross supplied the blood for necessary transfusions to save her life? The blood was given by your friends and neighbors, but without the Red Cross, it would never have found its way into your mother’s veins, bearing with it its promise of life, except at fantastic cost. It is the Red Cross which is THERE, on the spot, in emergency, flood or pestilence or famine. ! ~ This is Red Cross Month. If you have not already made your contribution through the United Fund, make it now, to insure equal service for those who desperately need it. — — EASTER SEALS Easter seals are already being distributed, fat en- velopes going to known contributors to the Crippled Children’s Foundation, with a request for an early answer to clear the boards and provide a foundation for the many spontaneous gifts to come. Easter seals seem particularly beautiful this year, the blue of the sky and the white of the drifting clouds promising wider horizons for the children whe are labor- ing to take their painful steps and build their small bodies. Other children take walking and running and skip- ping for granted. 3 : Small faces peer hopefully from their windows, look- ing to a day when they will be able to play baseball; to a time when those lagging steps will be as fleet as those of their schoolmates. : Tr Easter is the time for renewal of life. Remember the Crippled Children when you throw away five dollars on something. which will not last for a month. : FEY Five dollars contributed to ‘the Crippled Children Funds means a gain that will last a lifetime. Give it thankfully . . . because your child can run. dy lx Cd WATCH THOSE BRUSH-FIRES It’s windy, and it's no time to burn trash outdoors. A blazing piece of paper carried high in the air, can start a fire that will race across a vacant lot, into-a pine grove, and burn two houses down before you can say Scat. Watck it. : : : Seon WILL IT BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE? ®¥™ Will it bring the dead to life? jo . Will it wipe out the memory of the ghastly human Freight that was shovélled into the evens of Auschwitz? ~ Will it ever cleanse the blot on the human race, to bring to justice the criminals who implemented this uns speakable horror? : The leaders are dead. . : Will it profit the human race to ferret out the under- lings, relentlessly bringing them to a slim justice which can never compensate for their crimes? Better to brand them with the mark of Cain, and let them live out their miserable days upon this earth. . The twenty-year period when they may be prosecuted 1s soon to expire. Let there be no prolongation. let vengeance realize that no vengeance is enough. That no black-garbed judge can mete out a punish- ment which is comparable to the crime. ) That there is another judgment, unseen, terrible in its wrath. { ® ee 0 + KEEPING POSTED March 11: BOSTON MINISTER dies after bludgeoning by opponents of Civil Rights march in Selma, Ala. SIT IN at White House for several hours. U. S. PLANES stage daily forays over North Vietnam. March 12: LBJ confers with Governor Wallace on racial conflict. March 14: KRUSHCHEV EMERGES from Biberaraion to cast ballot. March 15: PRESIDENT SPEAKS to Nation on Civil Rights. White-House pickets pause to tune in transistors. MARTIN LUTHER KING leads 4,000 in march of memorial for slain white clergyman. OSTRACISM ENDS as Queen Elizabeth meets with Wally Simpson, wife of the Duke of Windsor, ab- dicated Monarch, over his sick-bed. March 16: BLOODY RACIAL incident in Montgomery. Marchers include Northern ministers, _THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1965 | | I | | | | | | | TRY JOINING LEHMAN A Lehman Township supervisor Yesterday ¥ ot | looks at the Harveys Lake Borough Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years | plans with some skepticism, and Ago In The Dallas Post | suggests it would be cheaper for . re them to join up as part of Lehman 30 Years Ago | Township. “No one,” he notes, ‘is Reserved seats were on sale at| of its mile of lakefront, so why | dissatisfied with Lehman's running Laing Fire Company comedy, He says it would be no problem to “Aren't We All?” Solid citizens in| put on the extra police protection the cast included Lettie Lee, Fred | that would be needed. Eck, Margaret Thomas, John Yaple, | What's expensive about making Zigmund Harmon, Carl Hontz, Ethel a ‘Borough. above® and beyond S ? Lup Oliver and Arthur Newman. | the anticipated: $5.000 (plus lots of Atty. William Q’Connor was can- e ] y | volunteer effort) cost to the Execu- didate for President Judge in Wyo- | five Assoelation? ming County. Borough fathers defeated sons at basketball, all rules sus- pended, no holds barred. Warren VanDyke said it de-| nended on Federal appropriation vhether the area got its-new road +0 Tunkhannock. their | Well, for one thing, by law, the | Borough has to buy all the capital expenditure for improvement laid out in’ the last five years by the townships whose territory it an- nexes. - Lehman says its expenditure | in that area in the last five years Luzerne County Grange won the has been extensive. McSparren Gavel. : SKATE BOARDS You could get eggs at 27 cents a | The entire world youth appears dozen, a mark-up of 17 cents over to be surfing on these blasted skate- 1925. Ground beef and pork for boards, and I must confess tg hav- meat-loaf cost 37 cents for two ing travelled at least three. feet | mounds. on ene, Sunday, on Church Street. | 20 Years Ago So it appears I. must scrap all ir plans for renting. a Maserati, and Hove was held out that “Elwood buy ‘one of the big six dollar skate- | Renshaw, Idetown, might be in| hoards, which ‘I. can drive ‘home | friendly Chinese hands. All but two from work. Skate boards are much | of the crew of the disabled B-29 more dangerous than motorcycles, | Better Leighton Never Frantz's store for the Dr. Henry M. | doesn’t the lake come in with us.” had been heard from. Mrs. Fred Kiefer was in charge of rounding up books for the new Library. Many stations for pick-up were listed. Any book was accept- able in those first days. Michael, Nick and Joseph Stren- dy met in Italy. Memorial services for three sol- diers were held: for Roy Schultz, at Alderson; Harry Shaver Smith and Clifford Nulton, at Kunkle. The old Ritter paintshop was leased as a Teen-Age Center. ' Ralph Williams and Ernest Hold- redge were wounded on Iwo Jima. The third Marine, Luther Gregory, though in the thick of battle, was uninjured. ; : Heard from in the Outpost: Edward Parrish, France; New York A PQ; John T. Carey, Tapa: Clint Brobst, Newport; How- ard Wilcox, Oregon;Walter Humnik, Western Front: James Lavelle, Tt- aly: Carl J. Dykman, Mississippi; Howard Enders, Dutch East Indies; Arthur C. Hauck, APO, N. Y.; Ralph Snyder, Pacific; Harry Sweppen- land. . Married: Dorothy Mae Kitchen to Byron Atkinson. eign A ; Died: Henry M. Franke, Grove. : Holcomb's 10 Years Ago Bishop Corson dedicated ‘the new memorial windows at Noxen Meth- odist Church. Leslie Kocher pre- sented the windows for dedication, Gordon Shook accepted them. = Kingston Township asked for $2 dues from each household to cover ambulance calls. During ‘the pre- ceding three years, 245 calls had appeal. Back Mountain Branch of Wyo- ming Valley Bank drew a banner crowd on its opening day. i. - The local garden club took a medal at the Philadelphia Flower Show, with an exhibit arranged by Mrs. J. Franklin Robinson, Trucks- | ville. Housing project at Meadowcrest . | would buy ‘my genuine Italian rac- | Sterling Meade, | | and sportier, and we expect to see J lots ~ of them parked on sunny "afternoons optside local restaurants, | as well. : | Now, I'd appreciate it if someone | | ing helmet, before I strap it on for | | a. last’ skate board tilt at “Center | Hill ‘Road.’ or Roushey Street, ‘ Shavertown. 3 : INDUSTRY WANTED? ~~ | | | | The question which ‘arose at the Dallas * Township Board of Super- | | visors’ meeting, that of industry in| the ‘ township ‘and in the Back | Mountain generally, was one which | occurred to me a couple weeks ago | “when the Greater Wilkes-Barre In- | | dustrial Fund started its final drive. ! | Does the Back Mountain, or does |'it not, want industry? ‘Well, the | | question is a good one, and the an- | | swer is “yes”, but difficulty arises J | several respects -- bedrock, lack | of water, and: lack .of proximity to | the Turnpike. don't go off half-cocked, I'm ‘aware that our major industrial sites here, Linear and Natona, came about be- cause of the Industrial Fund. On the other hand, the Fund is bound to look after interests of the rest. of the county as well, and if a company shows interest in coming to Luzerne County, well, West Pitts- ton is as good a place as Forty-Sec- ond Street, West Dallas, all things being. equal. You cculdn’t do things half way with a local Chamber of Commerce. though, and it goes without saying that an enormous amount of effort would have to go into it. It's doubtful whether the lack of industry in the Back Mountain is due to the fact that people want to keep it a res'dential area. Local zoning has not been stringent, and much of the rural township area in’ ‘the Back Mountain has been zoned tentatively. by the county '-- not too . prospectively, one might add, since the only areas marked “industrial” are Linear ground, Na- tona ‘ground, ‘and an auto grave- yard in the f ari end. of Jackson Township. : : ah What has really deterred indus- try is the fact: that ‘this section of the county “isn’t close to the Turn- pike. (Mountaintop, which I'm told enjoys bedrock and water problems at least equal to our own, enjoys no end of industry; as well.) The new Interstate highway pro- jections will help the Back Moun- 1: tain’s position a lot, in respect to |. transportation. i : © And the :way industry arranges itself in grassy parks with big win- dows and ‘smoke eliminators ‘and original mosaics on the outer walls, and I don’t know what all, having S modern industry around is a real .pleasure, compared to some of the residences being built in the world today. : ¥ “The problem resolves: itself less 2 in respect to ‘‘do we want industry” than “how do we get it”. ; The Crucible (Continued from page 1 A) trich feather in his buccaneering hat.. : . : ; Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks has a built- in .prompter, ten year old Karen Line, who «watches. avidly between slitted eyes, - following the. lines ‘in her .agile little brain, and eager to hiss an opening: word when |. My -own feelings at this time were | necessary, to the Rebecca ‘who is | sity to cure this difficulty, and that the various civic groups which were donating money to the G. W-B I dustrial Fund “might consider de- ‘voting some of the time and money | toward looking after «the Back heiser, England; Alan Shaffer, Eng- | that a Back Mountain Chamber of | ‘bending over her. ? | Comieres was an absolute neces- | The play runs three more nights: (Thursday, Friday, . and = Saturday, with curtain at 8:30, and tickets 4t the box-office, phone 823-1875. Little Theatre now owns its own building - at' 537 N. Main ‘Street, “Wilkes-Barre. ET | | | Mountain's interest. Naw, wait, | Safety Valve ENDORSES LABERGE Gentlemen: Many parents in this area have noted with approval that Mr. John LaBerge has entered the lists for -election as a school board member. ‘We have all been subjected over the past several months to the ad- verse results caused by decisicns ‘made by some members of the pres- ent school board who neither know about, nor came for, the solid, em- “phatic, and effective ideas sponsor- ed by the other competent members of the present board. It is time for a change, and it is good to note that Mr. LaBerge is available. I am a registered democrat, and ‘therefore cannot vote for Mr. La- Berge in the primaries. 1 hope his fellow republicans will find them- ‘selves in a position to endorse him for office as a school board member, so that all of us who want to see ood schools in" this area can vote for him in the fall. i" Finally, Mr. LaBerge is not with- out a reputation. A few weeks ago, ‘before even he knew he was going ito run for office, his qualifications ber were discussed in Washington, D.C. (I happen to know because TI Tt’ will show that back here in the ‘man when we see one, if we all do ‘our best to get. a. competent man ‘and a sincere man, Jack LaBerge, ‘elected as a school board member. ; Sincerely yours, “Jay A. Young : ; P.S.: (This letter is. being written unsolicited, without LaBerge’s sknowledge). : Newspaper Headline “International Revenue Service Allows 20 Minutes to Fill Out. Returns” 2 1 Have you timed yourself i brethren? ‘Do you come within the norm? ‘Have you breezed right thro the 5 filling . (Of that quaint 1040 form? x 0 ‘Have you read those plain in- & structions As did I, then read some more And found line Z from Section I “Proves 2 & 2 Just don't make four. 4 3 ‘But as I struggled, weak and weary Through the night, my vision bleary, ‘Came the morn and I could see [I'd progressed through Section B, So, having reached these outer “04 himits, ME : I might be through in twenty minutes. bs W. G. SEAMAN dear Former Klabama Resident Says Outsiders Imported To Stir Up Trouble, News Media Give Distorted View NOT THE MAJORITY : | Dear ‘Saftey Valve” a public letters, but as a former res-. {ident of Marion, :Alabama, I now | find “it very hard to:remain silent { while’ the whole. South is being | judged and ‘condemned for the { actions of a few in Alabama, a few i in Mississippi, a few in Texas. = | Leigh Pegues, the mayor of Mari- | on, I have known since childhood. | All though in school he was a quiet, came up for discussion at the | studious youngster; a, fine football school board. Children: were being | player; and a young man respected educated. with no tax to cover it. , by students and teachers alike, He * Primaries promised to be hot | had a quiet dignity and a desire to’ stuff. Dean Shaver stopped drilling at 435 feet, when the new Jackson institution was assured of getting 300 gallons a minute from the 87 inch bore. , : > Died: Helen G. Smith, 63, Dallas RD; Mrs. J. F. Letson, 65; Frucks- ville; Mrs. Grace Bevan, Overbrook Road. Married: Mabel Lewis to Robert Shaver. Irma G. Myers to Earl T. Chamberlain. - Mrs. Clara May Lord Is Laid To Rest March 17. ST. PATRICK'S DAY, The death of Mrs. Clara Mae Lord, Hunlock Creek, on Friday ‘morning | in General Hospital removed from { her community: one of its olde: citizens. : : Mrs. Lord who wag born in Hun- lock Creek, daughter of Lafayette and Loretta. Brown Dodson. would have celebrated her 86th birthday on Decorattion Day. 3 Vitally interested in church and community, she had remained alert and busy, spending her spare time in fashioning lovely quilts’and hand- work and reading. At one time she had been engaged in practical nurs- ing after her husband, Charles B., died in 1939. Mrs. Lord was a mem- ber of Headley Grove Church. * She is survived by two . sons, James D. Huntsville and Rev: Har- old V., Hunlock Creek, with whom she made her home of late years. Also eight grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. ti Services were held Tuesday after- noon from Bronson Funeral Home with Rev. Delbert Hoffman officia- ting. Interment was in Marvin Cem- etery, Muhlenburg. SPRING COMES ON SATURDAY So, you think spring always comes on March 21? Now hear this: Saturday, March 20, is the first day of spring this year. Could be be- cause of Leap Year in 1964, Jor hack to school, but they didn’t. | do what was right and fair. Leigh | was never one to go off “half-cock- | ed” on anything. . Much of my in- | formation has come from printed interviews with him and also. from letters from. my brother. Quotations are from printed interviews’ . “Marion is a town of 4,008 people; the county seat of Perry County. The police force consists of the chief of ‘police and four others; the ‘sher- iff has ‘three deputies. For three weeks there had been marches and demonstrations there without in- cident. Then came George Bess of SNICK. : ‘Marion merchants and cafe own- ers had already opened their doors to Negroes; “‘svhi 33 and “colored” signs had been already removed from drinking fountains, ete; 140 people had been registered to vote on the first Monday of Feb., and | 108 on the third Monday of Feb. | (These are the usual monthly reg- istration daye as prescribed by law.) The regular hours are 8 to 4. but | they worked to 9:30 p.m. Gov. Wal- lace had sent a state-paid repre- sentative to help. But now with Bess in town 300 marched on the courthouse. 139 were registered; 20 were illiterates: and that left: 119 to be reoistered. Bess brought some SNICK teen- agers into town as Mrs. Middle- brooks was closing her restaurant for the day. Thev pushed in, shov- ed tables and chairs, kicked the doors, and velled until she called | the police and swore out a warrant for trespassing. The chief of police went to the restaurant, allowed those to leave who would, and eventually arrested sixteen includ- ing Bess who was described as be- ing “obnoxions” for about 45 min- utes. Then they oot a threatening call from a Negro leader. So Pegues sent for troopers in case they need- ed extra help. The Negro leader (Turner, by name) got 600 schoo! children to march to the jail, urged on by SNICK workers who stayed at the school. Those under 16 were urged by white officials to go home Negro parents complained when arrested. : , to march and then the children were |; “On one march to register to vote, |’ out of 365 marchers many were al- ready registered, many had been completely illiterate. some had crim- inal records. (I believe this was the march that Martin Luther King led.) That day an" elderly Negro” man collapsed in the courthouse. Some Negroes brought him © downstairs and left him in the courtyard, Some- one told the chief of police who came and gave him first aid, called a police car, and had him taken to a doctor. $3 Pegues said the Negroes told him they were going to force an incident and make them arrest them. That wag the "night violence flared in ‘Marion. At the start: when ‘they were ordered to disperse or go back to the church, most went inte the church. A few ran to the back where they had a pile of broken bottles, bricks. etc., which they be- gan hurlina. The trooner who shot the Negro had been cut by a broken bottle wielded by that Negro. Pegues said they had had three weeks of harrassmentg with no viol- ence but this ohe was led by “real pros’. (Negroes are consistantly brought in from other places to par- ticipate in marches and 1 have heard that thev are paid $5 to march and $10 if they get arrested.) The real tragedy is the set-back to progress. During the last three years five responsible Negro citizens have been meeting with citv officials to discuss community problems and projects. Results include a swimming pool in use for two years and a 38 unit housing project due to be completed in the next few weeks. At Marion “agitators came in and tried to establish communications with the local Negro leadership... They were unable to get the local Negro businessmen and professional people”... so the agitators took over a “new local group.” Pegues said there has been “close liasion through the years” with the Negro community and that problems are worked out jointly. He feels that “the lines of communication would probablly be reopened again if the outside agitators leave.” “We have a fine community, made up of both whites and Negroes. They are not at each others’ throats. We will all be living here fogether after the outsiders are gone. We cannot let pressures or 1esentful County.” courthouse without getting an OK How would Wilkes-Barre react? : (Birmingham nd Selma are not small towns.) Suppose 600 (or 2500) people de- ‘cided ‘to march down Highway 11 fo Harrisburg. Would Pa. Police ignore it or stop motor traffic “for two days? (Highway 80 be- ‘portion of the coast to coast high- Callif.) Folfe a group from + Bloomsburg, would they be allowed to? ‘go to Panama or Korea or Africa ‘or Tokyo to find race being set ‘against race, people against people. Is this not the way communists work ? Do they not get the gullible, ‘the immature, the innocent, the un- ‘informed to do their dirty work, to. ‘out in the cold when communism can easily move in? Sincerely, Mrs. Doris Wiant Harvey about for that office as school board mem- |. ‘was present during that discussion.) | sticks of Dallas’ we know a good | ft +I they “came for their children that | © Suppose 300 people decided to || been made. Ted Poad headed the | 'I am not in the habit of writing they had always: told their children | march across Wilkes-Barre, to the to obey their teachers and now teachers. were telling the children | from city officials. DALLAS. PENNSYT,.VANIA From— Pillar To Post... By Hix It's official now. The instant you see a red kite tangled high in the branches of the maple tree, and find a small boy valiantly, trying to get a green kite into the air, you know it's spring, no matter what the calendar says. That red kite is going to look pretty silly when a snow stornggy batters it, but it's a lovely gesture, pointing the way toward daf-"" fodils and purple lilacs, and apple blossoms, and all the beautiful The March wind always inspires the young to set their kites asail. The store-keepers have had them in stock for months, await- ing the first mild blustery day, with its scuddling clouds and its patches of blue. Do little boys still send messages up to their kites, slipping a note over the string and watching it dance away, up, up, up, until contact is made, and the message delivered? Does any little boy know how to make his own kite anymore, or does he have to rely on what the five and ten has in stock? Getting ready for the first kite-flying used to take happy hours of work, rigging the frame with slender sticks whittled down almost, to the vanishing point, light and pliant, asking to ride the breeze. Stringing the frame, pasting on the paper, balancing the entire craft with just exactly the right amount of tail, was a labor of love. Up to his elbows in flourpaste, and with his project spread out all” over the kitchen table, the small birdman labored on. : “Usually it was newspaper, but with the advent of stronger? tissue-paper, the switch was made to gayer kites. # Probably it’ was a nod toward the future, but my kites were always made out of the Baltimore Sun-Paper, and I accumulated: layers of printers ink in the process, an omen of what was to come. The kites that my brother and I constructed, we flew from a: flat tin roof in Old Baltimore, in a section now entirely slum. Even in those days, say around 1902, the jungle was encroaching. If you have ever flown a kite from a roof three stories up, you realize that there are pitfalls in the operation. You cannot run with the kite. on the string, ready to payout the reel as soon as the kite is above the level of the surrounding roofs and clear of the telephone wires. And getting the kite back alive, is even more of a problem. We. solved this with great efficiency, and got our kites back into ouy hands without any possibility of their dipping and hanging them--" selves on the wires. ! 7 They came straight down, and in a hurry, not by hand, but by means of an ancient sewing machine frame, a salute to a future dedicated to mechanization. IR + It took frantic pedalling toward the last, when the kite was’ fighting to stay aloft and we were fighting to get it down. We knew that the kite could see a wide expanse from the air, and we travelled with it in imagination. When the wind blew sweetly from the south west, it could get a good view of Clifton Park. From the north, it could look down on the harbor and the banana ‘boats lying at anchor. A wind from the east took it to a ‘place in the sky where it could see Washington’s Monument on Mt. Vernon . Place.. And from the south, a view of Herring Run, where the gudgeons bit in the spring. . March was the time to fly kites in Old Baltimore. it was too hot on the flat tin roof. Later on,- State | tween Montgomery and Selma is a! “vay, Savahanna, Gd., to San Diego, | ‘Columbia Co., went to Wilkes-Barre, | ‘Luzerne County, to register to vote, “ I am afraid you do not have to | suffer for them, and then be left. i | ONE WEEK FREE! “ayy MEN'S GOLF SHOES Value $12 WITH PURCHASE OF Tru-Flite GOLF SET 5 IRONS 3.5.7-9 Putter . 2 WOODS 1-3 $30.43 Lewis-Duncan == Sporting Goods NARROWS SHOPPING CENTER minds scor ow future in Perry 3 0 SEE A 3 OEE EO Ca EE 3S CE ES RETO FUNERAL DIRECTORS 1 INCI SERVING RESIDENTS OF THE GREATER DALLAS AREA dbl A funeral home should be carefully selected . . . before the need arises. Back Mountain residents are invited to compare Snowdon facilities . . . services . . . prices. HAROLD C. SNOWDON HAROLD CC. SNOWDON, JR. You must get it air-borne by a series of gentle Hel pt ar. of