SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 | Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1889. Subscription rates: $4.00 a year; $2.50 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-State subscriptions, $4.50 a year; $3.00 six months or less. Students away from home $3.00 a term; Out-of- State $3.50. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations SLs.) Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association ny he! Member National Editorial Association ; Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. TTS Editor and Publisher .............0. .. Myra Z. RisLEY Managing Editor .......... LeigaroNn R. Scott, JR. RR RE Sl Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON Advertising Manager, ........ vo. a etii Lourse MARKS Business Manager ...i....u..J cu. Doris R. MAvrLIN Circulation Manager '............ Mrs. VELma Davis Accounting ..... J... SANDRA STRAZDUS “More Than A New spaper, A Community Institution” Editorially Speaking The Airport Problem If we lose our airport at Avoca, it will be due at least in part, to an extremely unfortunate decision some years ago, to permit a commercial parking concern to take over the space which once was thronged with visitors. At the original airport building, people brought their children to see the planes take off and land. It was a favored evening entertainment for old and young. Before parking was restricted at the new airport, people still brought their children . . . children who were potential future customers. Greater Wyoming Valley and the Scranton area be- came air-minded, and business boomed. Flying was the way to travel. The instant parking was restricted, trade fell off. Parking strips which once were packed solid on weekends, stood vacant. The repercussions have been disastrous. People find it simpler to drive, taking with them their luggage. They are no longer air-minded, except of necessity. In a crowded airport, planes coming and going at all Associate Editor Social Editor i... aise , after ! Fine and guest of honor Dr. : cancel appearances at the last” min- | I inevitable. i chicken | special stunts, bingo, you name it, ! | the carnival had it. Only Yesterday | Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years Ago In The Dallas Post 30 Years Ago The Back Mountain was swinging back into the Republican ranks, four years of Franklin D.| Roosevelt. many of the GOP had deserted their party when = their | candidate Hoover had been opposed by democratic FDR. Dallas Township's athletic field, | nearing completion under WPA, was slated for use in the fall, two acres of grass, exclusive of clay-marked | baseball diamond. Start of new addition to. Dallas, Township High School, blessed “by : Harrisburg, still held up by search | for a better bid. C. J. Eipper was; president of the board. Russian Day at Harveys Lake pic- | nic grounds went ahead, minus’ principal speaker Judge John: 8S. | Igor | Sikorsky, both of whom had to | jute. Lindbergh had visited the | plane plant at Bridgeport unex- | pectedly. | Italian-Ethiopian issue much’ in the world news. War Seemed. Dallas fire-fighters were staging | a big carnival, with dog show, | supper, a German band, | | Dallas Boropgh Council elected | | Morgan Wilcox to fill the vacancy | | caused by the | Garrahan. | death of Harry | Heavy rains. | 20 Years Ago A B. Jeter was made president | Ww. | of First National Bank of Dallas, | THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965 + KEEPING POSTED = August 4: VIET CONG DESTROY two million gallons of fuel at the Da Nang air base using phosphorus and plastic bombs. MANY CIVILIANS killed in attack on villages by the Marines. HARRIMAN AND TAYLOR report to The Pres- ident. I —_—— TE ES same. August 5: NORTHEAST FACES acute water shortage. LUTHER KING leads march of gratitude to the White-House, 5,000 strong. U.S. BOMBER CRASHES in Vietnam, crewmen parachute into sea, village hit, bombs continue to explode. August 6: TWENTIETH ANNIVERSAY of Hiroshima bombing. One minute of silence to commemorate on instant of annihilation. Survivors recall the DAY. VOTING RIGHTS BILL signed into law at Capitol, where Lincoln first signed an smancipation law 104 years ago. I Sr sm ons: August 7: DROUGHT CRISIS in Northeast worsens. August 8: DEMONSTRATORS MARCH on White House, bearing anti-War placards. Dry run. LBJ at Camp David on Sunday. KKK and NEGROES both march Georgia. 3 WATER CRISIS subject of conference by gover- nors with The President. Feasibility of atomic desalting plant discussed to relieve situation in New York and Philadelvkia. WORST FOREST FIRE since 1947 extinguished in Maine. TT EE Ir ost. August 9: SINGAPORE SECEDES from Federation of Malaysia. August 10: SIEGE OF DUC CO reaches 67th day in Viet- nam, big battle imminent. CIVIL RIGHTS: Negroes marches continue in Chicago. IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, no settlement. br sey in Americus, register in Selma, Better Leilihton Never The Dallas Post | cus service. | swer is yes and it promises to be Safety Valve CORRECTED CRASH | 2050 Blair Street Williamsport August 2, 1965 Gentlemen: I am writing in regard to your | article in the July 29, 1965 edition, | entitled “Three Crash At Rt. 118 | Corners.” We were driving a 1962 Chev- | | rolet (not an Opel) station wagon, waiting to make a left hand turn | onto 118, when the OPEL pulled | out of Route 118 into the Ford con- | | vertible, hitting it and sending it | | into our station wagon. (We were sitting ducks.) { I think if you will check with the, | Dallas Police, you will find this to be the* proper account of the | accident. I wich to thank the Dallas Police | and the ambulance crew that took | us to the hospital for their courte- Yours truly, John Wheeland Dear Editor, I would like to address this letter | to all of those people who helped | make the Daniel C. Roberts Fire- | man’s Fair possible and so success- ful this year. May I express my deepest appre- | ciation and gratitude for a job well | done, and «a very special ‘thanks’ to all of the chairman and their | committees for the tremendous ef- | | fort put in behalf of the fair. | Although the weather wasn’t the | | best the participation was wonder- | | ful. To those who asked if the fair | would be held next year, the an- | bigger and better than ever. Plans | are already underway for the ‘Fire- | mans Fair-1966". On behalf of the Daniel C. Roberts | | Fire Company and Auxiliary a Sine | cere “Thank You, everyone’. Much thanks to the Dallas Post | for the fine article supporting the | DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA . | From— Pillar To Post... By Hix Random thoughts from a random thinker department: Wonder how many children think a space-craft leaps up and down in the air, after following its flight on Television at take-off ? It soars out of the screen, and then there it is again, somewhat smaller, but back in the middle of the T-V. Wonder how many children think that their insides look like glass balls coated with whitewash. Food used to be served three times a day, plenty of it, with no special regard for the caloric intake, the vitamin and mineral ¢ tent, the effect on the nervous system, or the processes of digestion. Digestion used to be something that ended with ‘the chewing and swallowing, and the happy arrival of the food in the stomach. Maybe the present day moppet is happier pursuing it through the entire circuit, but it seems unlikely. What on earth are we doing to our children? chondriacs of them ? What is wrong with enjoying your food without weighing it in terms of gastro-intestinal upheaval ? A child should be so hungry when he comes to ths table that he dives headfirst into his plate, and laps up ever ything on it, with a hungry eye peeled for more of the same. No small child should size up her father suspiciously and babble, “Daddy, are you still afraid you have an ulcer?’ © And no father should let down his back hair and explain his symptoms to his child. What goes on here ? T-V' commercials are becoming so anatomical that they turn the stomach, or so blah that they mean nothing. at all. And talk about manners . .. Take those cigarette smokers who turn down the offer of a cigarette with a lordly wave of the hand and the explanation that THEY smoke only the best. In, effect they are saying, ‘You live on a lower plane than I do, Bi, and you couldn't be expected to enjoy the BEST.” And where oh where is that delightful Harvester Cigar com- mercial that barked at the T-V audience instead of soft-soaping it? Recently, he is being replaced by a man who coos that every leaf is picked b yhand. And so what? Who cares? Probably the machines could do it better anyway. I want to hear that Harvester Cigar brute yelling again. I wil to hear him roar, “How many times do I have to TELL you to spend ten cents on a Harvester Cigar? HOW MANY TIMES?” % Now that was a real commercial. It engaged the =tugffion, of it was mercifully short. It almost caused me to switch fro eatin’ Jobuoegs to cigars, Moking hypo- times, parking concessions are probably necessary. [succeeding Corey A. Frantz, iQ y CDCDLX]L | fair. but habit dies hard. Avoca Airport was once a lusty infant, nourished | deceased. : Sympathy bth: vote. most amet] ore | Yours truly, SRE Ee SG by the growing interest of the people. It held great | Too wet, but three days of sun- The untimely death of Mrs. Todiit sinst’ Tolle, James McCaffrey | promise for the future. | shine helped the hay crop. | Daniel Walters of Plymouth was Pia Ts, BEAINS Se on Le General Chairman 65 wheel, one that takes two men to for miles, guiding mariners to safe It has now been weaned on a diet of skimmed milk, | Ralph K. Garrahan and George not unrecognized by ‘the kids of hold ? | harbor, away from the shoals. and it is shrivelling day by day. The lobby used to be crowded, with clerks at every counter. Have a look at it now. emptiness. It is dying on its feet, largely due to the insane de- cision to squeeze a little more money out of the public. The parking area was never laid out in an effective manner. The great open spaces of clipped lawn in the middle are beautiful to look at, in the summer time. They are sheer murder in the winter, when you must pause briefly at the entrance to drop your luggage, drive across to the far side of the parking lot, and scurry back to the entrance through the snow. Fifteen minutes is the allowed time for doing this and for getting your ticket verified. Your escort must then dash across all that open space again, start his car, and squeak out through the gates if he does not wish to be penalized. If he wants to wave you aboard your plane, he pays his quarter on the way out. Few people would complain if the parking slots were close to the entrance. It would have been just as easy to plan the parking for convenience of the travelling pub- lic, with space for spectators out on the fringe, and grass used as a border ‘instead of a centerpiece. A quarter is a small amount of money, but people can be pushed just so far. A quarter will no longer get you into the movies. It no longer has status in the church collection plate. But with all that open space on the hilltop which is crowned by Avoca Airport, a quarter looks like the freez- ing limit to a man with seven children who would like to park comfortably and watch the planes take off, of a sum- mer evening. : Tax-payers can go sour over extremely small things. When train service dwindled, folks no longer shud- dered at the idea of crossing the mountains after dark in private cars. When the price of bus service to Dallas be- came exorbitant, patronage fell off. Which comes first . . . the chicken or the egg? Cause or effect? Footsteps echo in a vast And don’t let anybody tell you it is because every- thing has gone jet. It hasn’t. There are plenty of prop planes left to handle air traffic between cities. Crystal Ball Needed If you send to the Dallas Post poorly written mate- rial, with names spelled in such a manner that it would take a crystal ball to decipher them. do not blame us for any misspelling which may occur. We do our best. Or if you rattle off a long list of names of those pres- ent over the telephone, do not expect 100 percent results in print. PRINT names, accuracy, before submitting a list. ing before you phone us. You would be astonished at how many people give their own telephone numbers incorrectly when phoning in a classified ad. Your own home number is the one number in the book which you almost never call. Frances Slocum State Park Project and consult the telephone book for Be sure of your spell- Kocher, Focuses Attention On Early History Mrs. Albert E. Turner, Carverton Road, is hot on the trail of mate- rial on Carverton, past and present, with relation to Frances Slocum State Park, the Indians who kid- napped the child, and the general history of the region. She started in pursuit of material for a brochure, but the material is now pursuing her, and where it will all end up, is anybody's guess. The Historical Society furnished | much of the information. Every time Mrs. Turner’ she has Queen Esther safely pinned down, somebody comes along and casts doubt upon the entire inci- dent. But certain it is that heads | history is being submerged by that | i were cracked on that stone, and | State Park project. A good bit of lands, by any means which would whether is was Queen Esther who | the history is contained in a bulg- | work. He was a realist. perpetrated the outrage, er some-! thinks | body disguised as Queen Esther, is | a moot point. One thing seems to have come | to light: Methodist ministers were | active in this area before the 1800's, out Carverton way, so the Carver- | | tonMethodist Charge can take credit | to itself for being the oldest estab- | lished sect in the area. Orange dates itself back to around 1815. Mrs. Turner, who up until now has written mainly fiction, dealing with statistics, which have a way of slipping through the fin- gers or rising later to haunt the dreams. Certain it is that much early ing folder which contains enough is now | | Ruckno, both of Forty Fort, pur- |' chased the Shavertown Lumber Company. ] A Trucksville boy, Wilson Arnold Cease, helped build the atomic | bomb which wiped out Hiroshima. Bronze star for Bud Nelson, re- | received cuperating from wounds in Italy. Professor Joseph Pooley, former ' | instructor at Wyoming ‘Seminary, a particle of garnishment. William Hill and Morris Johnson | openéd a radio repair shop. : In the Outpost: Wally Gosart, Lu- zon; William F. Cairl, California; | Richard Williams, Augsburg; Frank Wrysch, Wurzburg; Charles Pem- berton, South Pacific; Elmer Turner, South Pacific; Tom Templin, Nor- way; Harry Boehme, Texas; James Shepherd, Arizona; =~ Jack Carey,’ Tennessee. bert Patton, Jr.; Beulah Winters to Charles E. Martin; Frances ic to | Clarence R. Sickler. Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. | Rachel Wyckoff, 97 years old. | Died: F. C. Kirkendall, Dallas. Meat restrictions were slackened for ‘miners, a prevue of abandon- ment of wartime ration cards. 10 Years Ago Tragic death of Woodworth Allan, | 14, cast gloom on the area. Target- | shooting accident. A fourth rural route was estab- lished for Dallas. Drought was broken by heavy downpour. Dallas, Franklin, | Townships formed school jointure. Elwood Reeves, 14, Center More- land, was rescued by ropes after | plunging over the falls at Ricketts | Glen. Died: Mrs. Electa Fleming, 52, Sweet Valley. James N. Jones, 66, Sweet Valley. Married: Barbara Ann/ Kieran to Loren Samsel Jr. Alma Reeves to William Jack Pauling. | | Carol E. Huray to Robert Y. Guy- ette. Margaret McCusker to John Mihalik. Patricia Sorber to Theo- ore Jones. mater ial to Fa a “volumé instead of a mere brochure. Cutting it down to size, while still - preserving facts and literary style, is a challenge. Every bit of information has to be cross-checked. Much of the early history was | written on the bias. | A famous example of this is. the | historian’s account of the charge at | Bunker Hill, one of the most side- splitting statements ever written: “Again and yet again, the cowardly British charged UP the hill.” Accounts of the War Between | the States vary, according to the grandstand seat. Patriots of the Revolutionary times could understandably see no- | thing but their own side. ’ | Lo, the poor Indian, prettied up in song and story, or prettied down to a naked savage, was a fairly slippery article, fading into the dimness of the primeval forest with- out a whisper. And according to his own stand- ards, he was completely justified in resisting the usurpation of his | rr ————————— St, i the paper boys wait for the truck. ! a ‘name for the farm, are often. fed , gional | the followi la Married: Rebecca. Herdman to Al-' 8 Sollowlng less Sanday. Albert their sixty-fifth. Mrs. | and Monroe Marie | Dallas. Every day her husband drops the | evening daily on Main Street for all the paper boys, never failing to | | stop and ‘chat, not only with the | carriers, but with the others as well, | Ron's barber shop being a sort of kids’ afternoon check point while The kids passed each other the hat last week, rounding up $50 in| | spoke to Dallas Rotary Club. Mr. | memory of Mrs. Walters. | Pooley used to write poetry for the Dallas Post, beautiful stuff without { Seen and Heard Joe Park tells me he always buys a cow, not by her papers necessar- | lily, but by whether she was a milleyof dense trees outside the building, | ' producer for a milk producing farm. | | points” out that the cows that are | bred especially for milk production | records, with an eye to establishing milk. Non sequitur of the week: A re-| amusement park featured | . Polish | Radio Day, Lithuanian Alliance, and | Russian Orthodox Day. What were | | they giving away at the dor? Why, | { | Turkish Taffy, of course. A woman whose home is, as she | | said, “only a stone's throw from | | Toby Creek” right here in Dallas | | tells’ me she wasn’t aware of any | | sewage smell coming from the | creek. I don’t think I ever heard | that before. ! Somebody in a helicopter was | circling Dallas and Lehman last Fri- | day morning. Anyone know who it | was and why he was looking the I | place over 7: Service stations, restaurants, and j police are being constantly be- | leaguered by delivery boys from | Wilkes-Barre and Scranton who I can’t find such and such a street. | Often there is no help for them. | Why can’t developers put a litle time into picking names for their streets ? Why does each land baron have to sprinkle his domain with nomenclature like Ridgeside Road, Roadside Ridge, Hilltop, Hilldale, . Grandview, Broadview, New Manor, Old Manor, and all that stuff? Is | | the area becoming so faceless that we don’t have people to name streets after? A Dallas teacher waxes enthusi- | | astic about the new harness race track. His system: Watch when they form in parade and see if the ! horse nods to you or shakes his | head. There is some question in our | minds about how one is to get into the new OES building now | that the postoffice has usurped the’! right of way. Borough Council is | in question about this too, and has | delegated somebody to look into | the status of Foster Street on the |! record books. | [can’t Mariners Musetm Well Worth | Visiting While In Virginia The Mariners Museum across Hampton Roads from Norfolk by {way of a vehicular tunnel under the | main channel, is one of those things which must be seen to be believed. If museums leave you cold, take a chance on it anyhow. As you possibly see everything in two hours, take a picnic lunch and relax with the kids under the shade where redwood tables and ‘benches | Blue blood is not everything. He dre grouped for use of the public. The huge figureheads of sailing vessels practically jump at you from the entrance. There is a King | Neptune with a gold trident, but | for the most part the figureheads are Lovely Ladies, generously en- dowed, their paint lovingly renewed to keep them up to the minute. The figureheads are properly | mounted, thr usting for ward into the Le \tED \ Curp® So why bother dept.: Recently a | Back Mountain business received a | large envelope directed to the firm, | “Dallas, Texas—18612.” So it was forwarded from Texas with 39c postage due for the effort. Granted that Texas is Texas, but what was | all this stuff about how Zip Code | was supposed to eliminate such a | misunderstanding ? Back from a quick jaunt up the | mountain to see how things look | for hunting season, Tony Hudak | says all he saw were a couple of | ' buzzards. Ask Bill Robbins to tell you how | a cat is quicker than a bee. This Trucksville beekeeper has one of | Dr Try The Dallas Post Sales Slip Pads Many Designs 8ave On Your Printing waves, not standing stiffly erect as the Snooty Lady used to stand | above the sands of Virginia Beach. The figurehead was a mecca for | vacationers. Nobody could wind up. a vacation at the beach without having had apicture snapped along- side that impressive figurehead. But she did have a disdainful expression that was a bit hard to live with. Her. counterpart is in the Mar- iners Museum, properly mounted, leaning forward ag from the prow of a sailing ship. Want to understand how a gyro- scope operates in order to minimize the rolling of a ship? Touch a but- | ton, and a model lights up. : Did you ever see a walking- beam ? There is one at the Mariners Museum. Ever see a really Jorge steering | ship | ocean liners. Underneath an outsize wheel is | | the insignificant looking wheel that The museum is not primarily for children, but for everybody who | controlled an aircraft carrier during loves the sea. World War II There are models and models and | models of sailing craft and steam- ships, ranging in size from a tiny in a bottle to heroic-sized Outside, in a patio, there are the Viking ships, the Chesapeake Bay canoes used by oystermen, the dug- outs of a vanished race of Indians. Treasures from the sands of the ocesn are displayed in glass-topped cases. A wicked harpoon used in whaling hangs on a walle oj Many of the exhibits are not the property of the museum, but on loan from shipping companies which take this means of meeting the public. A lamp from a lighthouse domin- ates the interior. It was once lighted | by kerosene and run by clockwork. The reflecting prisms show how the |small light was magnified into a! revolving _beam that could carry The A.B.C. Symbol. . ‘The right to purchase or refrain from purchasing this publication gives you, the reader, and no one else the power to pass judgment on whether it shall continue to survive. This symbol In the parking lot under the trees, a car from Connecticut proud- ly displays the self-same emblem as the Virginia ‘car alongside, the of- ficial seal of the Power Squadron, signifying ownership of a small powerboat which is dedicated to correct use of the waterways. Power Squadron emblems are not easily come by. To obtain an em- blem, a boat owner must pass stiff course in navigation, and alert for those amateurs who into trouble by attempting ot, # Waterways ™in ugh wether. He 1 sworn to give aid when necessary. He flies from his boat an official flag with a red field, white stars circling an anchor, and blue and white stripes placed vertically. Don’t miss the Mariners Museum. There is no admission fee. It is free to all comers, gift of a ship- builder who loved the sea and who turned over his own collection of treasures for everybody to enjoy. represents the standards by which your voluntary response is measured. It also serves as a constant guide to our readers’ opinion. This symbol represents our membership in the Audit Bureau of Gircula- tions, your assurance that our circulation facts are verified by independent audit, measured] by recognized standards, and reported in standardized These audited facts, available without reports. It testifies to the advertising value of this publication. obligation to interested persons, provide a factual basis for adv: ertising rates, evidence of subscriber interest, facts on market coverage, and facts for appraising our circulation quality and editorial vitality. HALLMARK OF CIRCULATION VALUE The DALLAS POST 3 Lehman Avenue Dallas, Pa. OR 4-5656 — OR 4-7676
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