SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST FEstablished 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, 15c. . . . “ Member Audit Bureau of Circulations ale, Member ‘ Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association AID: Member National Editorial Association <, — Cunt Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Editor and Publisher ........ Myra Z. RiSLEY Associate Editors— ee es ee Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, LeigaroNn R. Scott, Jr. Social Editor .........cco%s Mgs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON Advertising Manager ............. , Louise MARKS Business Manager ....... SEAT Doris R. MALLIN Circulation Manager: ........ 5:5 Mgrs. VELMA Davis Accounting ...... SANDRA STRAZDUS Editorially Speaking REGISTER PROTEST We at the Dallas Post wish to register our protest against: 1. MEDICARE — since we feel the benefits described in the bill are too general — covering hospital bills for elderly folks who do not need them (two of us here at the Post would qualify). 2. Free transportation for private school children—since we feel that any parent who can afford to be selective enough to send his child to a privately financed school can afford to pay ‘to get him there. Why saddle the middle class parents with this luxury bill? 3. The Federal Telephone Tax — since this tax was passed as an emergency war tax and was never intended to be a permanent tax. This, we feel, along with many other taxes, is just another case of taxing the small business man or the middle class resident to build up a Federal reserve for the “unemployed” — who refuse to work — in this terrible ‘pocket of poverty.” (Last week we had a phone call from a boy who pre- viously worked here and left voluntarily. He wanted to know what his “take home pay” would be if he accepted a $40 a week job. We told him. “Well,” he said, ‘TI guess I'm better off to collect my unem- ployment check.” — @ — SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS What Is A Second-Class citizen? Young men under the age of twenty-one, eligible to carry weapons in the service of their country, but not to vote. Aliens. Colored people in the South, who find it impossible to register for the vote. People convicted of felonies. Women, up until 45 years ago, when the franchise was granted after a monumental struggle for recognition of their rights as individuals. REPEAL THAT TAX NOW “Nothing is permanent but taxes and death” the old adage goes. And to expand this a bit, we might add “nothing is as permanent as a permanent tax!” Since 1941, every telephone customer in the United States has paid a ‘‘temporary” 10% luxury tax . . . which now amounts to roughly $1 billion a year. The telephone has long since passed out of the luxury class and is as necessary to a home as water, gas and electricity. But the telephone is taxed and the other utili- ties are not. “Hope springs eternal” is ariother familiar adage and every ‘year since 1941 John Q. Public, hoping to reduce his phone bill, has looked to Congress to repeal this tem- porary tax. Although it has not been repealed, at least there was the hope that eventually it would be. This year the President in his budget message to Con- gress has very quietly let John Q. have it on the chin. Hidden in the message is the phrase, "All taxes which are not removed this year become PERMANENT.” ; Fortunately, there is still time to do something about it. An aroused public can let the government know that it doesn’t like unfair taxes—particularly PERMANENT ONES. Write to your Senators and Representative in Con- gress asking for repeal of the telephone excise tax. Below are the addresses of your Senators and Con- gressman. Write them today. Senator Joseph C. Clark, 9th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia; Senator Hugh Scott, Room 4004, U.S. Court. house, Philadelphia; Congressman Daniel J. Flood, 46Q N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Wilkes-Barre. apis THE INVISIBLE MAN If you are walking at night, along a road which is glistening with rain, you are completely invisible to the oncoming motorist. YOU know you are there, but the motorist does not . until it is too late to stop. With the stepped-up speed limits (?) on the new highway, cars permitted to whoosh through Shavertown at 50 instead of a more conservative 35 miles an hour, it is as much as your life isworth to take a step, even on the shoulder of the road. Highways are not for pedestrians. They are for getting people where they are going, and in a hurry, alive if possible. A speed of 50 works out to a speed of 55 or 57. At 57, if a form shows upon the driver’s mental radar screen, he has hit it before the fact can register. Neon lighting for pedestrians could be the answer. Jz | ‘| members of Borough PTA that. the Only Yesterday Ten, Twenty and. Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago | John ' Yaple, C. ‘A. Lettie = Lee, A A. Kuehn, | Frantz, and Mrs G. A. | were prominently pictured on the front page as taking part in the | Dallas Fire Co. show. Earl Monk announced the amal- | gamation of his’ plumbing business | with that of the B'& B Supply Com- | pany, Main Street, Dallas. Dallas Businessmen and Borough! Council united to promote beauti- ficafion, regulate parking, and to institute a clean-up program. Mrs. Wesley T. Daddow, pillar! of the Dallas Methodist Church, died aged 65. The acute potato surplus was re- | lieved when growers united with | growers from Conyngham to per-| 'suade A &P to market their pro-. duct. Dean Shaver drilled a 500 foot | well at Mt. Greenwood. Earl Monk'| | installed a pump which tested out | | at 36,320 gallons. | Brush fires, ‘brush fires, | fires. 20 Years Ago. Lawrence Gavek, 19, died in a motor accident in France, Louis Achuff was a prisoner of war in Germany, downed on a bombing mission in a Flying For- tress. Dr. Sarah Wyckoff died following surgery. Robert - Misson New Guinea. Short-wave radio from Germany said James Brown was a prisoner, taken "during the ‘Battle of the Bulge. ! Heard from in’ the Outpost: Bud Mitchell, Germany; Donald Metzgar France; Warren Brown, Italy; Don- ald King, Georgia; Gene Fogle, Cal- | ifornia. ~ Sickler store in Orange was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Sam Gardner. | Norman Oney’S outfit was cited | by Patton. | Married: Rogers. State highways were full of frost- boils from an extreme winter. Weather was hard on bees, too. Harveys Lake was free of ice. | Emma Butler, 69, suffered a fa- tal heart attack. | 10 Years Ago Spring lambs at Hillside. | Charles Long holds biggest auc- | tion in Sweet Valley. | Dr. Eugene Farley reminded | was home from Irene Finney to Warren | biggest may not always be the best. | Albert Armitage was badly in- | jured when a dairy cooler fell on him. Fw { New vaccine for polio was eager- | | ly awaited. The Salk injections ™ | waited only Federal OK. | Three lanes were approved “for | 309. | Ice at Alderson Grol up in a | gale. Westmoreland students signed up | for rodent count. | | William Wright was chairman of | | the 1955 Library Auction. Westmoreland Mustangs ‘took the | championship at Bloomsburg. | Died: Harry Albertson, former res- | | ident. Jay B. Lord, formerly of | Hunlocks Creek. | Married: Alice Gibetson to Marcy | Evans. Joan Smith. and John Ger | son. ; 213 4 i i | TLedion To Words Benjamin Stark | Benjamin Stark, 71, formerly of Idetown, died suddenly Sunday morning in South Irving Heights, Texas. Commander Gus Shaleski, Dallas American Legion Home. dsks as many members as possible to meet | |in front of Maslowski’'s Funeral Home in Plymouth at 8:30 Thurs- day evening, to do honor to a former member. A Requiem Mass at St. Casimir’s Church is scheduled for 9 am. Friday. | Native of Glen Lyon, he served with the army in France. Five, years ago he retired from employ- ment with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Harrisburg. For many | vears he was with the Recorder of Deeds Office. at Luzerne County Court House. He leaves his widow, the former Verinica Zelinsky; daughters, Mrs. Lucille Portillo. and Delores Erim | Stark, Irving, Texas; seven grand- ' children. J | AMERICAN LEGION NEEDS PIANO The Dallas American = Legion | Home needs a piano, The piano which has been in use is no longer | in a condition to be tuned, says] | Oscar Whitesell, the blind piano tuner from Oakdale, who recom- | mends getting a replacement. Can | somebody donate an upright piano, | or sell one at a minimum price? | bro ‘William R. Hoover | Rev. and Mrs. Warren Hoover, | Clinton, Mass., announce the birt | | of a son, William Russell, March 13. | | There are three other children, Di- ane, David and Nancy. Mother is | | the former J. Doris | Wanamie. Rev. Hoover is District Superin- tendent of the Free Methodist | Churches in the New England area. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Rus- sell Hoover, R. D. 4, Dallas. | to each comnartment. Brown of | ther train tn Conenharon, THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965 + KEEPING POSTED = March 17: RUSSIAN SPACE-MAN steps out of the cap- : sule at the end of a tether, steps back in again unharmed. EXILED KING FAROUK dies after lavish dinner. BLIZZARDS SCOURGE Mid-West. March 18: FREEDOM MARCH to Montgomery sanctioned. March 21: MARCHERS CAMP in cow pasture, Rev. King bunks in heated trailer. RANGER 9 is hurled toward moon. RUSSIA’S SPACEMEN land safely in dense forest. March 22: GEMINI CAPSULE orbits earth three times, lands safely in ocean, astronauts picked up. March 23: RANGER 9 CRASHES the moon, live pictures shown on TV. WORLD WRATHFUL at use of gas in Vetnam ‘Warfare. U. S. explains gas was not lethal, but gas warfare means just one thing to everybody: death. ® | THE DOG'S SEASON Spring in the Back Mountain crept : brush | in under a cloak of snow, and thus! on the we could be expected to find nice | weather by surprise. But then there were the wild ' geese going over, and the dogs have already stopped running around at night, and all the St. Patrick's Day | kittens are born and in happy homes (or the happy hunting ground). So, unlike the animals, we wait for warm weather to tell us spring is here, while they yawn ‘so what else is new ?”. Nor do I mind the passing of the Season of Running Dog. because the | Dallas Post is a clearing house and , control center for lost dogs. by rep- | "utation, and we are called by many | folks quicker than they would the SPCA. So here is the time of the sing- ing of birds and the taking of an- ' tihistamines and the making of mud. Blood: is stirring in ths veins of Auction Committee chairmen, and our farm machinerv auctions are | almost done for another year. (Don’t | forget Wayne Weaver's. down at Falls this year, Saturday.) They say the drought is cvelical | and more of the same expected this year, but we fervently hone for lots of good sprine rain, with the added | observation that we wouldn't want batting boast the almanac’s average. SEEN. AND HEARD AF. of L.-CILO. was picketing the postotfice site on Thursday, pro- Ieming something or other abet Better Leighton Never the contractor. | ting the hourly wage that's posted old station - wouldn't protest. James Huston, our Youd; grain, | and seed man in Fernbrook, just | Livestock Judging, and Voice Ora- | Boy, if 1 were get. | | building I, got in a load of peeps for Hillside Farm, about 200 of them, hatched . in Connecticut just oneday before delivery in Dallas by parcel post. Mr. Huston also reports that seed and fertilizer supply deliveries are a sure sign of spring. Noxen firemen are making pre- i liminary arrangements for the an- ‘nual horseshow there, and plan, as a result of my suggestion to Cai Strohl, a nail-driving game. which is a sure money-maker when there are men around who want to show their strength. Maybe they ought also to think about running two | i “dunking” = machines at ‘one¢e, | as | they were very popular last year. | Curiosity-seekers cluttered Clyde's lot early this week to see the car that killed two kids out by the | country club: | | ‘the Reisch American School Auctioneering, | ‘the largest school of its kind in the ‘part time at selling and servicing farm equipment. Ructioneer Graduate | | | * GEORGE A. MATUSAVIGE ' George A. Matusavige, son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Matusavige, of Center Moreland, has completed the course of study in General Sales, tory, and received his diploma from | of | Mason City, Iowa, world. A graduate of Tunkhannock High School in 1960, George now farms about 400 acres in Centermoreland and Dallas area. He is past presi- dent and now member of Center- | moreland Methodist Church Men's | Class. He was secretary-treasurer of the Young Farmers of Wyoming County and a delegate to the state con- vention in 1964. He has worked George will be an apprentice auctioneer for one year, but offers his service meanwhile to auctioning | for any charity and non-profit or- | ganization which would like his | | help. 2 Tractor-trailer drivers who. come | 5 through Dallas appear to regard our | ! town as a routine annoyanee, to be baled through was fast as possible. | How about some strategic manual |; traffic light operation by the police department to see brakes are all they should be? | Card Club Held ‘Mrs. Harveys Lake, was hostess to her card club, ‘Tuesday night, March. 16. Rotary Exchange Student In Holland Speaks To Delft Rotary In Dutch “Chip” Landis writes from Holland, where he is a Rotary Ex- change student. stale, - Letters from students in foreign lands never grow no matter what the date-line. Chip, who is carried more formally on the records of Lake-Lehman high school as Alan, spoke to members of the Delft Rotary ‘Club in Dutch, March 19, as personal representative of his father, John Landis, Alan showed slides of Dallas, the 28th time he has brought his home area to Holland. From the end of the first three months, he has spoken entirely in Dutch. World Undertaking Week saw exchange students from overseas speaking in this country in English, and American students speaking to groups of Rotary men in their native tongue. Mr. and Mrs. Landis live at Oak Hill. Manager of Commonwealth Telephone Company. librarian at Lake-Lehman High School. of 1964. Dear Friends, I have finally found time to sit | | down and write to my friends back home via the Dallas Post. I hope vou will forgive my tardiness. and I'll trv to give you some of the | highlights of my visit here in Hol- land as a exchange student. Our groun of students sailed July 29 aboard the SS Aurelia, an Italian student ship carrying over a thou- | sand students. Every European and some Asiatic languages were sno- ken. so our little groun of English- speaking Rotarv students staved together. Most of us had never been | on an ocean liner, and we thorouch- | Iv enjoyed the swimming nonls nightly dances, and the good food | during our ten-day vovacge. Part of our groun, including Nal. las exchange student from India. Roshan. disembarked at Southamp- ton, Enoland. Manv of ug staved un all nicht to photnoranh the mae- nificent white cliffs of Dover, our first Jand in ten davs. The rest of us arrived at JTeHavre. France. the next dav, and suddenlv realized we were three thousand miles from home and readv for a vear of new adventures. Cathv TLeinthal and 1 beinoe group leaders. were buev making sire evervbndv waz on the train to Rotterdam. We didn’t sleen much on the ten honr ride hecauce there were eight plus Tuooace in This being in another land, another continent. inet can’t he exnlained in words: one has to evnarience the excite- ment and anticipation. We pulled inta Rotterdam at 4 a. m.. and Mr. Meverink. the man in charga of tha Ratarv Fxchanoe | Prooram in Holland, didn't until 5:20. Finally, after introduc- ine oureslves and eettine the hao. avin ters wnlaaded. we met Aanr families | The gtiidonté~ onine +n Novwayw Swe. dem. and Finland had $a take an- Mo Mevarink and T waved them off and I was verv much relieved that avervone landed and sonnd hecancs tha reenansihility far thei safety had rested on mv chonlders, sole At Rotterdam the eleven U. S. for- Mr. Landis is District Mrs. Landis is Chip graduated in the class eign students assigned “to Holland | went their separate ways. | 1, not having had any sleep for [two and a half days, | tired. But do you think .I was going to sleep from Rotterdam to De- | venter, mv hometown? Not on | your life! My eyes kept closing but | when ‘I saw mv first windmill. 1 knew I was really in Holland. Two { things impressed me -- the flat- ness of the land, not a hill in sight, | and the bicycles! FEvervone from fonr-vear-olds ‘to dienified nuns ride bicveles! When T arrived at mv | first home. 1 “hit the sack” and slent for twentv hours! I was com- pletely exhausted. | My first family, the Stuurmans. are verv kind and understanding and I hecame very attached to them. Mr. Stunrman ic a druecist | and there are two children, Freddv 18. and Toos, 16. They were a bit shy at first. because I couldn't epeak any Dutch. However, this was soon remedied for tha eleven students. eicht girls | 2 | and thre bovs. met the followin | ‘week at The Hague for one week from eicht to five for an intensive course in Dutch. We really studied and were housed and entertained by Rotary families. On mv return: tn the Stuurmans’. we spoke only Dutch, and that is They taught me to say. in case I got lost in Deventer, which is a city about the size of Wilkes-Barre. thie phrase several times because I did eget lost. but evervone was verv considerate and directed me in Fnelich to mv home. Europeans speak three or four languages be- cause their conntries are small. and in another country where French or German ic ennlren, Nearly everv- derstands it. However Oxford Eno. lish. not American English, is the preferred accent. The Dallas Post Sales Slip Pads was quite in three or four hours vou mav be | one sneaks English or at least un- | if the trailer | | | | | [+ {| To the Editor, the only way to learn a language. | i “I am an American and lost. Can | vou sneak English?” I had to use | § | Washington, D. C. where hé served Myron Williams, Pole 1126, | for five years, and among the peo- Safety Valve UPSURGE OF FEELING March “15, 1965 Dear Editor, The death of James Reeb has re- | sulted in an upsurge of feeling a- | cross the Continent centering nat- | urally at those points where James | Reeb’s work and service have been focused - the Unitarian Universal- | ist Communities of Alabama and of ple of Boston, where he had been | with American Friends Service for six months. © “ On March 9th Jim Reeb was one a numerous ministers and laymen in Selma demanding that Governor Ne Wallace recognize elemen- tal civil rights and liberties. ~ “It ig paramount that all citizens! convey their deep sense of shock to President Johnson, your Senator | and Congressman without delay. Lyman Lull 78 Perrin Avenue Shavertown, Pa. I would like to correct a mis- understanding which seems to exist on the telephone call Ricky made to report the Bolton fire. He did not call the Fire Company and say “Bolton's was on fire.” He did call the telephone op- erator and. ask her for the Fire Company. She told him she would ring them for him and deliver the message. He told her, “There is a fire at 8 Perrin Avenue and please hurry.” “I am sure the operator can verify this. I am writing you and I would like this letter published because the misdirection of the Fire Company was not Ricky's fault. Most Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts too, this age, have been trained to act in an | emergency and in light of recent! events, this training certainly seems worthwhile. . I hope this will clear up any doubt which exists as to how and | where the telephone call was made. Sincerely yours, Mildred Edwards | authority in our school affairs. |is entitled to his opinion, but, I | From— DALLAS. PENNEY VV ANEA Pillar To Post... By Hix J It ‘was one of those kind dispensations of providence, comp letely undeserved, but welcome. J It takes a long time to get stage make-up off your face And hands, particularly when it has been laid on with a trowel. It looked like a solid idea to go home first and take'off the make-up afterward: Some lucky star sent out a beam of light, saying, “Don’t. pose you had to tell it to the judge looking thisaway ? believe you?” Sur i A One look at: the glare ice late Saturday night was enough. The witch make-up was safely in the trash can at the Little Theatre. The progress through Luzerne was practically on the hands and knees, slipping, sliding, skidding. Up and up, colder and «colder, slipperier and slipperier, that red light at Carverton Road. and then Step on the brake and skid into the car on the right? It looked safer to run the light. A car coming up Carverton road was giving a right turn signal, so he would be out of the way. Business of running the light safely, with a sigh of relief. And then came Nemesis. A police car, and an extremely courteous officer. I stuck my head out of the window. “I have just run a red: ; light,” quoth the late Rebecca Nurse, restored now to a normal ap- pearance except for the witch-locks, and thankful that the hag make- up had been left behind. “That had all the makings of a very nasty accident,” Nemesis. replied = “It sure did, where are the cinders?” “They blew off. Where is your operator’s license?” “Home in my other handbag. You want my name and address?" And what would You do under similar circumstances? How about giving me a ticket, joining in a psalm of thanksgiving, and letting me get off this highway. He said, slippery.” “Yol telling me ?” Hair-Stylist John Maniskas, hair stylist, ion at Concard Hotel, Catskill, N.Y. John was part of a team of stylists who represented the American Beauty Supply Company in the com- petition. His Brand ‘Master award was received for Individual Hair Styling and the second award was SAFETY VALVE IN REBUTTAL Safety Valve Editor: .: Quoting Mr. Jay Young, Dallas Post, March 18, 1965, “Many par- ents in this area haye noted with approval" that Mr. John Laberge | has entered the lists for election as a school board member.” Kindly register a ‘NO ‘CONFI- DENCE” vote from this parent for Jack Laberge, and also Jay Young. Jay is setting himself up as an don’t think he is close enough to our | pert. ‘ We also remember that former school - board president Earl Phil- lips is so taken up by our QUALITY EDUCATION he daughter in Wyoming Seminary. is educating his These are facts, and I wasn't in Wins Awards Back Mountain | won two awards at a recent Clairol Gold Crown Competit- He | schools to qualify as an ex-| It's getting worse all the time.” That was an awfully nice officer. I wish I knew his name. “For heaven’s sake, get home, and drive carefully. It's * for team effort. Hairstylists from FEastern Penn- sylvania, South Jersey and Del- aware attended, and Mr. John was one of 50 persons who competed for an award. The model in the photograph is Mrs. Ralph Hood, Shavertown for- merly Beverly Brown of Carverton Road Trucksville. Washington. Respectfully yours, ROBERT STEPHENSON Grandview Avenue, Dallas, Pa. IN NAME ONLY $ Mrs. Hicks, Dear Madam, About a month ago I sent in for a subscription to the paper Dallas Post. | and thank you for the promptness; | but you or somebody along the line has made a error in my name. I am sending you a clipping from { the paper and you will see you { have made a female by name only las I have been listed as a male for 77 years, so please see that my | name gets changed as it not only confuses my mailman but me to. Here is my correct address and Thank you. ARTHUR CRAGLE Hunlock Creek, Pa. 18621 CEES CC EE &f HAROLD C. SNOWDON HAROLD C. SNOWDON, JR. 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. EEE AEA C3 AEE 3 EOE 20000 EEC S00 EE RETA 200A ERE OA SOREL SLC EL CAE rE ATE ; Would he 1 March 20, 1965. & I received it the next week RSE i= First train amphi unity strike COUN; warfy: “Qs ~ than Mg4rin /The 11 i
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