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Editor and Publisher .............0. .. Myra Z. RisLEY
Managing Editor .......... LeigaroNn R. Scott, JR.
RR RE Sl Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks
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“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
|
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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.
|
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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
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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 |
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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,
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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.
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