~ SECTION A — PACE 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 $3.00 six
months or less. Students away from home $3.00 a term: Out-of-
State $3.50. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations St
\ Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association 0D:
Member National Editorial Association SE
Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Ine.
Editor and Publisher ................ Myra Z. RISLEY
Managing Editor LeicHTON R. Scott, JR.
Associate Editor Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks
Social Editor 5.000 J... .. Mgrs. DororHY B. ANDERSON
Advertising Manager :....;..... 0... Louise MARks
Business Manager’... oi hi viii, Doris R. MALLIN
Circulation Manager Mrs. Verma Davis
year,
Accounting ....i... 5. SANDRA STRAZDUS
Circulation Manager .................. Mrs. VELMA Davis
Accounting ...... SANDRA STRAZDUS
“More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution”
Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association
Member Audit Bureau of Circulations
Member National Editorial Association
Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc.
A mom-partisan, liberal progressive newspaper pub-
lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant,
Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania.
We will not be responsible for the return of unsolicited manu-
scripts, photographs and editorial matter unless self-addressed,
stamped envelope is enclosed, and in no case will this material be
held for more than 30 days.
We will not be responsible for large “cuts.” If your organization
wants to pick up its cuts, we will keep them for thirty days.
One-column cuts will be filed for future reference.
The Post is sent free to all Back Mountain patients in local
hospitals. If you are a patient ask your nurse for it.
We can give no assurance that announcements of plays, parties,
rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a
specific issue.
Editorially Speaking
It Will Never Be The Same
It was characteristic of Mrs. Antoinette Mason that
she should wait until the close of the school year to an-
nounce her resignation. Mrs. Mason did not want a fan-
fare of trumpets to herald her leaving the second grade
room at Dallas Borough School.
Instead of waiting for next June, when she would
‘have normally retired under school department mandated
regulations, she chose to retire now.
The second grade at Dallas will not be the same.
So few teachers, no matter how dedicated, have the
know-how to make of the small happenings in the animal
world, a living, breathing, drama of everyday life.
She lured birds to her feeders. She took her pupils
on wintry walks, pointing out to them the triangular foot-
tracks of a pheasant, the characteristic marks of a hop-
ping rabbit. Here, he sat. And here, something had
frightened him, and the prints showed a burst of speed,
heading for a brushpile in which he could laugh at the
pursuing dog.
She assigned small compositions. “Think of your-
self as a worm. Think of yourself as a skunk. Think of
yourself as a cardinal. Think of yourself as a chickadee,
cracking a sunflower seed, holding it between your claws.”
Not soon will somebody at the Dallas Post forget a
composition which began, “I am a worm.”
Parents knew that with Mrs. Mason a child would
develop a sense of the world around him, and that the
world would be beautiful.
This sort of teaching is something which grows over
the years, developing, broadening, becoming richer with
every season, as it transmits to the children an under-
standing of small and helpless things, and instills in them
a sense of protection..
Mrs. Mason is one of the nicest things that has ever
happened to Dallas.
This Is The Month For Late]
: The laurel has never been more beautiful than dur-
ing this month of June. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Most of it is in full flower, but there are still bushes
which are merely in bud, in some of the higher locations.
Along tke roadsides, where there is more sunshine, it
starts to flower earlier then it does in the denser shade
of the woodlands.
: Rhododendrons are lovelier than usual this year,
with many yards showing startlingly colorful bushes.
Perhaps a fine lilac year means also a good rhododendron
and laure] year.
Laurel is a protected flower in Pennsylvania, as dog-
wood is in Virginia. Transplant a bush from a rocky
pasture land to your front yard, and you have broken a
law. But there is nothing to prevent a landowner from
grubbing out all the laurel and burning the roots, if he
wishes to do so.
This is one of those anomolies which people find it
hard to understand.
There was once a perfectly beautiful stand of the
deepest pink laurel out beyond Alderson, more deeply
hued than any other laurel, a stand which drew people
from miles around to view. It is gone, and the area is
‘the poorer for its going.
That sort of beauty should be preserved for posterity,
a heritage for coming generations.
With the encroachment of housing developments
and junk car lots, the felling of stately trees to widen
highways, and the carelessness of the average smoker in
starting forest fires, we stand to lose one of our richest
possessions, the beauty of the unspoiled countryside.
: Enjoy the laurel while it is here to enjoy. Don’t pick
it. It is not at home, wilting in a vase in the living room.
It belongs among its rocks on its native hillside, where its
branches will put forth blossoms again next year.
( daughter of Mrs. Mary Hazeltine
Jones and the late John R. Jones.
Services Friday For
: For thirty-five years Mrs. Sweppy
Mrs. Emma Sweppy, 38 | has lived in Irvington, N. J. She
Mrs. Emma Sweppy, 58, native of | died Tuesday at St. Michael's Hos-
Shavertown, will be buried in Cedar Pital in Newark.
Crest Cemetery Friday morning, | -She leaves her husband Paul;
Rev. R. W. Edmondson conducting | two sisters: Mrs. Bruce Cardon,
services at 11 from the Bronson | Wilkes-Barre; and Mrs. Wallace Ru-
Funeral Home. Friends may call | bright, Beeville, Texas; a brother,
this evening. : David Jones, Bernardsville, N. J;
The former Emma Jones was nephews. ~
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Only
Ye esterday
| Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
30 Years Ago
Warren Yeisley succeeded Her-
‘man VanCampen as Rotary Club |
president.
Every available business property
in Dallas was occupied, forecast was
for better times and a step out of
the Depression.
Primaries were slated for Septem-
ber, with major battle for Republi-
can control coming up.
Tribute to George Gwilliam,
founder of the Good Morning Club.
A group of Dallas men bought out
the Shavertown franchise for the
Rural League.
Foresters in other states enthusi-
astic about the purchase of Kitchen
Creek for a State Park.
Sidewalks were hopefully being
proposed by Dallas citizenry -- at
Federal expense.
You could get two pounds of cof-
fee for 31 cents; butter two pounds
53.
20 Years Ago
Lehman Community canning
center was preparing to open July
chicken and pineapple.
Burgess H. A. Smith defeated by
| George Williams. Taxpayers sup-
.| ported independent candidates, ask-
| ing for beter schools.
Hedwig Zbick led her class at
Lehman, highest of 43 graduates.
Eggs and potatoes were both
scarce. Ration points were still re-
quired for meat, coffee, butter, gas.
Mountain Evergreen Company
{ opened its new plant in the Gar-
inger building on Church Street.
New filly at Bill Stoeckert’s place
weighed not much more than some
| human babies, fifteen pounds.
nila; William Conyngham, British
ship Tenacious; Dick Oliver, New-
port, R. I; Jim Evans, Munich; Fred
| Schobert, Czechoslovakia; Herb Up-
| dyke, Germany; Eloise Hunt, Camp
| Lee; Scott Ross. Fleet; Frededick
Wilcox, Franct; George Phillips, Pa-
cific; Basil Frantz, Texas.
Married: Estella Elston to Calvert
Birnstock. Wilda Zimmermen to
| Harold B. Elston.
{ Ruggles Band was praltiling each
| week, with old members and some
| new ones added.
Housewives who raised fruit in
| accordance with urging of the Gov-
| ernment, were up in arms because
the ration for canning sugar was
five pounds per person.
f
1. Two successful runs were made, |
In the Outpost: Walter Meade, Ma- |
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1965
June 16: U. S. IN SAIGON
alerted for overseas.
CONGRESS VOTES
South Vietnam.
ASTRONAUTS VISI
| GENERAL STRIKE
«+ KEEPING POSTED «
number 54,000. More troops
excise tax cut of 4.6 billions.
JUNE 18: U. S. BOMBERS from Guam strike Reds in
JUNE 20: VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY returns from
interview with DeGaulle.
T Air Show in France, com-
pare notes with Russian Cosmonaut.
BERNARD BARUCH dies at 97.
in Santo Domingo.
rights workers killed
MARS SPACE VEH
goal.
June 21: L. B. J.. SIGNS excise cut into law.
CIVIL RIGHTS MARCH in memory of three civil
a year ago.
ICLE. within three weeks of
Will start taking pix July 14.
U. S. PLANES raid
border.
8,000 MARINES in
Vietnam.
June 22: FLOODS MOVING downstream from Colorado,
flooding Kansas, approaching Big Bend, threaten-
ing everything downstream. Situation compound-
ed by more heavy rain.
within few miles of Chinese
TERRORIST EXECUTED for March killings.
Okinawa en route to South’
June 23: STUDENT RIOTS IN JAPAN and Korea, against
signing of peace treaty. .
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DISORGANIZED OPPOSITION
I am waiting to see just how
much influence the year-rounders
at Harveys Lake have, when it
comes to a show-down over the
borough and the sewage disposal
issues.
So far, while the Executive Asso-
| ciation, spearheaded by the Pro-
tective Association, local builders
and real estate men, and other in-
vanced their cause, even with an
unannounced membership campaign,
to help boost the “borough,” the
opposition has been feeble.
Township ~ governments,
Lake and Lehman,
border on the Lake, have been ac-
cused of lack of interest in the
sewage problem, which of course is
ridiculous. Nobody could sit around
the Lake and watch thousands of
dollars of potential tourist money
namely
in one way or another.
‘Rather, it might be said that the
year-rounders are interested in
seeing problem cleared up through
individual disposal units. Although
| termed this a limited solution, most
| 10 Years Ago
Borough School class of 1899 had |
its 66th reunion, Dr. John Hay host |
Three out of four living members |
of a class of six. exchanged remi- |
niscences; Mrs. Fred Gordon, Eu-|
gene Honeywell and Dr. Hay.
Carol Evans, 3, was injured when |
she fell from the rear seat of her,
father's car in the Poconos. Lacer-
ations requiring thirty-six sutures.
Ro=well Patterson was named
manager of the Scranton office, |
Springbrook Water Co.
Harry Goeringer donated seven |
lots on Demunds Road for a future |
recreation center.
| Willard Garey. in razing an old
| house in Huntsville, found a copy
of the Dallas Post dated November |
3. 1892.
Former Burgess George W. Wil- |
liams, retired after 52 years as a|
newsman.
Died: Richard Patton. 28, Noxen. |
of the local people think of them-
selves, as we all do, as limited
financially. Several Harveys Lake
to his classmates at Hotel Sterling. | businessmen have said to me more |
than once that if year-round cities
like Wilkes-Barre and built-up areas
like Hanover cannot support a sew-
age system, Harveys Lake has a
long way to go before it can.
The influence of the builders and
| real estate men in the new interest | Lake.
groups has been great, and some of
the interest is surely looking to the
future benefit of Harveys Lake. (At
the same time, they are accused of
wanting to make it a “closed” or
private, lake, run by the Executive
Association and an $8,500 a year
borough manager.)
The next question is, how much
influence do the economy-minded
year-rounders, who flinch at the
million dollar sign, have, and will
they ever get their interest or-
ganized ?
| terested parties, have steadily ad- !
whose lands
lost because of a Health Department |
quarantine and not be interested,
the U. S. Health Department has
| Anniversary: Mr. and’ Mrs. Elwood imagination than blueprints, to
i Schenk, fifty years. ‘build a racetrack in ‘Centermore-
land.
Speaking of racetracks, it is
George C. Lewis, 84, Sweet Valley.| (For information about the pro-
Mrs. Martha Snyder, 64, Trucks-| posed borough, you may recall the
ville. | advance special story run in the
Married: Helen Annette Graham, to Dallas Post several months ago.)
Philip Oskar Anderson. Nancy Gun- | Seen And Heard
ton to Kenneth Denmon. | Heard of a plan, backed by more
| thought that the training track on
| the former Kern farm across from
| Sordoni’s above Alderson, will be
an ideal place to house the over-
| flow of horses brought in from out-
ceipt of your check in the amount Side 1200 54 Pogeno Downs, as
> 2 | the downs will not be equipped to
of $25.00 for your sign on the Little handle all the entrants for lodging.
League fence for 1965.
W. sh 3 | Center Dallas was essentially
© Wish to express ‘our SINCEre | waterless and bathless last Thurs-
appreciation to you for your help-
: : |day, as water company. crewmen
ful cooperation It is only through | cut hole after hole in the highway
the generosity and understanding | looking for the leak
of such people as yourselves that | When Tommy Heffernan Arakos
we are able tosearry owt this pro-1, "yc Christmas auto list in “Val-
gram for the boys of the Back | 1 oy Ato Notes” thats whan he
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Mountain area. [ gives out all his “gift” suggestions--:
Very truly yours, | Don’t forget Pop, Tom.
a paul Steinhauer | Stefan Hellersperk and an army
eoretary | of young volunteers started setting
up the Auction grounds this week-
HIP-BUILDING FODDER | ord.
Dear Hix: v Fish Commission is buying
In your article on strawberry five acres of “Public Access”
shortcake — I'm with you. I've a|
, | land on Harveys Lake. Rumor
special peeve ‘about sponge cake |
and berries being called shortcake! has it that it will be shore area
But when you're serving those| at Laketon.
hip-building old fashioned biscuits | Miscellaneous real estate you can
and berries, don’t forget to serve buy: the Himmler Theater, the
them in soup dishes with a pitcher Harveys Lake Ski Slope, the Quarter
of cool milk. Sloppy but luscious. | Midget Race Track, the doctor
— Thelma Ratcliffe | building this side of Linear on the
Ed Note: Sponge cake with ber- | highway, the well-known ice cream
ries is OK, very tasty, but t'ain’t|stand across from Orcutt cem-
shortcake. Not a smidge of shorten- | etery, Noxen, the Dallas Railroad
Safety Valve
IT'S THE LITTLE LEAGUE
Dear Editor:
We acknowledge herewith re-
Happy Birthday
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ATTY. B. B. LEWIS
To a man who was admitted to
the Luzerne County Bar in 1908,
many happy returns of his birthday.
And to the oldest practicing solicitor
in the County, many more years of
the tranquil practice of law in his
chosen field, the settling of estates
and bank and realty work,
Mr. Lewis, one of the fixtures of
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; nouncement’’ of deletion of many |
items from the Dallas postoffice
project, according to announcement
from our congressman. Darn right.
The “recent announcement” came |
courtesy of the Dallas Post news [
| room, thank you, and I know that |
the news story was mailed immedi-
ately to Dan Flood for his perusal, |
although I suspect the deletions |
were not a complete secret in |
| Washington before that, even
though they were unknown
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in |
‘Dallas before the May 20 Dallas |
Post.
Little Leaguers combed the region |
Monday night, holding out their |
baseball caps to be filled with coin. |
Irv Coolbaugh says it's just a |
matter of time till he rides Eddie's
new. Honda scrambler.
Electrie Myopia -
The electric eye traffic light con-
trols .in Kingston Township have
been a prominent topic of gab
around the Back Mountain lately, |
and support for them been none t00 |
! overwhelming. Shc]
First gripe we heard, as we said |
earlier, was from a sports car driver |
who said he finally had to run the
red light because his presence was |
apparently too low to the ground |
for the electric eye to read. i
More vehement still are the com- |
muters who complain that the light |
at Carverton Road will let, say, four |
cars through, and then change back |
| to red for another straggler coming |
| off the side road. Not only does’ |
| this bottle up rush hour, but it will
| certainly cause mayhem on Sunday |
' hot-weather traffic to Harveys
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| In addition, there is this problem.
| You are, for the moment, a semi-
| trailer truck moving south on the
| highway down the sweeping grade
| from Harris Hill to Carverton Road
| corner. Your eye caught the red |
| change to green, giving you the go- |
| ahead, and you go, because you've |
got 400 more miles yet tonight. |
Now, pretend you are an average
motorist waiting for the light to
change so you can pull out of the |
blind cavern of Church Road onto
the highway. The light turns green,
and out you go. But here comes
the truck.
Both come together, in a pretty
worth it?
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| Rev. Germond Attends
' School Board Meeting
Rev. Robert Germond pastor of
Trucksville Methodist Church, was
guest pastor at the Dallas School
Board meeting last week and gave
the invocation.
A member of the Back Mountain
Ministerial Association is present at
all meetings of the school board,
with a different pastor scheduled
for each month.
| for
i record shows.
bad wreck. So are the electric eyes |
; Use Seat Belts
Dallas, was born June 29, 1885, in
| West. Pittston.
Better Leishton Never |
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In 1904, he graduated from West
Pittston High School, and in Sep-
tember entered Dickinson Law
School, from which so many promi-
nent attorneys of the area have
been graduated. He graduated with
the class of 1907.
Four years after admission to the
Luzerne County Bar, he married
Elizabeth F. Ridgeway. Of this
union were born two sons: Dr.
George R. Lewis, instructor in math-
ematics at Clarion State College;
and Robert B. Lewis, instructor in
| English at Phelps, New York High
School.
Atty. Lewis is presently solicitor
Dallas Branch of Miners Na-
tional Bank, and a member of the
{ Advisory Board. He is also solicitor
for Rural Building and Loan Asso-
ciation.
He is one of the stalwarts of
Dallas Methodist Church.
The bare bones of a life.
But Burt B. Lewis is so much
more to the community than his |
Without giving of-
fense to a sterling citizen of Dallas,
he may be described as a truly
gentle man, one retaining the vir-
tues of his generation: integrity,
honor, responsibility, compassion
for the weak, an inability to quib-
Open House For Prize
Deer Heads June 26, 27
Game Commission Headquarters
on the Memorial Highway at in-
tersection with Route 118, is hold-
ing Open House Saturday and Sun-
day, June 26 and 27. Hours are
8:30 to 4:30 p.m.
On view will be some of the prize
deer heads which have been sub-
mitted for measurement. Deer racks
or mounted heads may be submitted
for examination at this time.
It Greatgrandpop shot the deer
100 years ago, the head is still
eligible for entry.
Certificates will be issued for all
scoring racks, whether taken with !
a gun or with bow and arrow.
J. J. Molski, NE Division Game
Supervisor, states that Pennsyl-
vania is not getting sufficient credit
for its fine deer hunting facilities,
‘and urges hunters to bring their |
| trophies for measurement and |
judging.
Use your seat belt and stay alive!
| Harry H. Brainerd, Commissioner of
the State Bureau of Traffice Safety,
| reports that your chances of being
| killed in a traffic accident are five
times greater if you are thrown
from your car. Buckle your seat
belt — seat belts save lives!
| Even a rich nation like the U.S.A. |
| has a limit to the amount it can
| spend. |
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| "The doctor may not know what's |
| wrong with you, but he is confident,
| at least.
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When you don't have
a relative in the
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ing in it. Hix. | Depot, the Noxen Tannery (and
| Noxen railroad station, probably, if
Self-control is a virture that in- | you prefer your depot in the coun-
dividuals recommend to their |try). And to the first mail order I
friends. get, I will sell, as is, the Trucks- |
Ci ville / restle.
Cre iit where credit is due: We've
hess} reading about a ‘recent an-
Character is what makes individ-
uals do more than the law requires.
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Bruce F.
Insurance Agency
“All Forms of Insurance’
48 Main Street
Dallas, Pa,
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he has the world by the tail, and
the world howls for mercy.
to announce arrival.
and that, absurd neck assembly,
begin to think long thoughts.
grandchildren, but the thought
grandchild, is somewhat startling.
It is possible to envisage a
pants) enthroned upon ehr knee.
«elevation of the young.
Pillar To Post...
Hix
There are always those “firsts,” all through your life . . .
but some of them are more devastating than others.
You can watch your son as he waits at the altar for his bride,
with a certain amount of detachment.
He looks pretty young, but
he is going to twist that tail until
Heaven help his bride, you reflect, as you mentally review the
chaos ‘he left behind him in the bathroom, the stack of football zed
left to gather moss in the athletic bag, the apple cores under the
radiator, the cigarette ash left to burn a hole in the rug.
You think of some other things, too.
at you when you went into a tizzy about some perfectly foolish thing.
The times when he had a flat tire and you didn’t sleep too much
until you heard the front door slam. There was a family rule that
nobody should pussy-foot in late at night, but make plenty of racket
That way you knew where you stood.
There’s the “first” of a first grandchild.
But when you see your son in a morning coat, striped trousers,
The way he used to grin
escorting his daughter down the
aisle in the church, to meet another young boy at the altar, you
You can get yourself adjusted, little by little, to twenty-one
of another “first,” a first great-
five-generation picture, with the
matriarch seated in the middle of a group, the youngest (in rubber
It's heartening to reflect that it's the young folks who have to
cope with the bottles and the diapers.
has developed a definite allergy for formulas, baby food, and those
triangular bits. of knitted material with which you drape the rear
Over the years, this old hen
Come to think of it, most of those appliances are now made on
a rectangular scheme, though some maternity hospitals still put the
young mothers through a course of sprouts, making them learn how
to fold a trick diaper,
+ or chafe.
Let's see
beautiful daughters on their arms.
hopes you will not fall flat on
thankfully in the next to the front
Missions Classes At,
Keystene On Bugust 30
Reservations are now being ac-
cepted for the 21st Annual Wyo-
ming Conference School of Missions
at Keystone Junior College, La-
Plume, from August 30 to Septem-
ber 3.
| ble when a principle is involved. visuals, reading, ete.
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{ Pa.
New dimensions of presentation
and learning will be experienced.
Answers to many problems in the
world today will be sought through
discussion, lectures, debates, audio-
“Acts, Then and Now’ will be
the special Bible study. Topics for
consideration and study will be:
“The Witness of Every Christian”
“Social Issues of the Christian”
“Outreach Through Mission”
Registration blanks may be ob-
tained from your local , Woman's
Society of Christian Service or from
the Registrar, Mrs. William M. Alex-
ander, Box A, Oak St. Nicholson,
One way to prolong life is to
make plans twenty years ahead.
Going to church is not a sure cure
for your sins, but it will help.
all on the diagonal, guaranteed not to bind
twenty-one grandchildren multiplied by
A procession of proud daddies, marching down the aisle with
Getting into that classic knitted white suit (with a shoehorn
and being ushered down the aisle by a solicitous young usher who
your face before he deposits you
pew.
Let's just skip the whole thing.
Ambulance Logbook
(Continued from 1 A)
took Eugene Misson from Nesbitt
Hospital to his home on Carverton
Road, Bert Miller and Bill Frederick
attending.
Donald Voelker, Ferguson Avenue,
was taken from an accident at
Shavertown Shopping Center on
Saturday to Nesbitt Hospital, Joe
Youngblood and Andy “Roan at
tending.
Earl Parsons, Green Road, Car-
verton, was taken to General Hos
pital on Monday, Roan and Har
Smith as crew.
Tuesday, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller,
201 Carverton Road, was taken to
Nesbitt Hospital, Youngblood, Mar-
vin Yeust, ‘and Ed Johnson at-
tending.
Nothing To F ear
Motorist afraid of being caught
driving in excess of legal speed
limits are driving too fast, accord-
ing to Traffic Safety Commissioner
Harry H. Brainerd. Commissioner
Brainerd says you can avoid this
apprehensive fieelling by driving
within the posted speed limits at all
times.
Compare the weight, then
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