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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 <, —
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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?
|
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‘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.
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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,
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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:
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‘the Reisch American School
Auctioneering,
| ‘the largest school of its kind in the
‘part time at selling and servicing
farm equipment.
Ructioneer Graduate
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* 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.
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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 |
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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