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Mrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
CATHERINE GILBERT
Mra ell Louise MARKS
Doris R. MALLIN
Mrs. Verma Davis
SANDRA STRAZDUS
Editorially Speaking
NO JUNK, PLEASE
Housecleaning time is the time to sort out things
for the Library Auction, and put them all together in a
separate spot, easily found when the collection of used
articles starts.
Too many people consider the Library Auction a good
dumping ground, and send articles which should, instead,
be relegated to the trash pile.
We say it ‘every year, and here we are, saying it
again:: The Auction is staged each year for the support
of our Library. :
How can support be obtained if broken furniture or
unusable electric appliances are offered for sale? The
used furniture is important. It is what keeps the crowd
interested and alert. But it must be of use.
Folks with cottages or hunting cabins annually find
articles which they can use. Up-graded with a coat of
paint, they provide drawer space for storage, tables and
chairs for use.
Newly-weds are usually not farsighted enough to see
the possibilities in a good, solid chest of drawers, or an
outmoded dining room table with sturdy chairs. This is
a pity, for the older pieces of furniture are almost always
far better built than the newer pieces which come on the
installment plan.
And it is fun to renew a surface with paint. We
have seen a perfectly beautiful round topped walnut din-
ing table reconditioned with careful sanding and a wax
finish, its legs cut down to coffee table size. The table
cost almost nothing, but it turned into a museum piece
with a little effort. The entire outlay was far less than
the cost of a flimsy bit of modern furniture.
It takes vision and a little work.
Annually, solid chests of drawers go over the auction
block for a ridiculous sum. They are the answer to stor-
age problems.
. The Auction annually affords people a chance to buy
articles which can be reconditioned, and used for many
more years.
In return, the Library benefits.
That is why we say again, for the twentieth time,
NO JUNK.
Junk will not benefit the Library. Al] it means is
that the Library must hire a truck to carry the junk to
the dump. It happens every year. :
Things which will fall to pieces as they are lifted
to the auction block, are of no value to anybody.
Take pride in sending to the auction articles which
will help the Library. Things which you do not need,
which are cluttering your attic, but which will be exactly
‘the things which somebody else needs.
You will be approached for donations to the baked
goods and the candy booth. Home-made bread and rolls,
sticky buns, raised doughnuts, cupcakes, home-made pies
have an unlimited demand.
Have you a good recipe for Boston Brown Bread?
Upside down cake? The baked goods counter needs
enough mouth-watering pastries to satisfy the demands
of three-days worth of customers. It never has enough.
It could sell ten times as many loaves of home-made bread
as it ever offers.
There are many experienced cooks in this area, wo-
men who stake their reputation on some particular bit
of baking.
skills with other people, those who consider a packaged
mix the last word in cookery, and have no idea of the
satisfaction to be obtained from starting a cake from
scratch. ’
The Auction is always a marvelous time to get to-
gether, compare notes, catch up on neighborhood news,
and relax in the sunshine.
Bake in the morning, and bring your apple pie hot
from the oven, Small bite-size pies make a big hit with
the children.
Use your imagination.
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It's For Free
With the announcement that the deadline for Medi-
care has been extended, comes the further news that
dental care for children may very probably be included in
the package.
And in addition, that the age for elderly participa-
tion will be revised downwards.
This sounds like the opening wedge for socialized
medicine, which is already in operation in some unsus-
pected ways.
England has socialized medicine. The tax burden is
terrific, and the thing has gotten out of hand.
Step a foot on English soil, and you are protected.
We understand that the members of a visiting ballet
company saved up all minor repairs until they could reach
England, then collected on free glasses, minor surgery,
dental care, and whatnot at the expense of the tax-payers.
We happen to know that some women from Canada
balance off the price of a round trip plane ticket against
the joys of reunion with a family and a visit from the
stork, collecting free medical service for the event.
If the Medicare proposal is carried out to its logical
conclusion, medical service on the government from birth
to death, look for visitors to our shores running the same
kind of a racket that they do when they visit England.
It’s for free.
Or is it?
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TWO NEW GRANDS HAP-HAZARD SAYS
Mrs. Ruth Lewin, Dallas, has two |
new grandchildren. A baby girl
was born March 17 to Mr. and Mrs. | shall
Lance Walker, of Raleigh, N. C.,| manuscript.”
and a son, Bradley Allen, February |
5, to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Eckert |
of Newton Square.
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Only
Yesterday
It Happened
30 Years Ago
|
Black headlines heralded revision
of rates by Dallas Water Company.
Parrish Heights consumers were to
be exempted until necessary repairs
| had been made. Rates, while higher,
| were not as high as first proposed.
| Texas Dallas invited Pennsylvania
| Dallag to join in its centennial.
Fifteen women were engaged in
| a WPA sewing project.
Prospect of a good growing season
| spurred buying in the area, depres-
sion seemed on the wane.
Rev. Frank D. Hartsock, retired
Dallag minister, died in Columbus,
S.C. 1%
Advertising in the paper took a
strong upsurge.
C. W. Space had heavy farm
horses for sale.
1936 Dodge trucks.
$370 bought a
half ton chassis. :
2 pounds for two bits..
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Large textile plant located in
Dallas. Native Laces bought sixteen
acres of land on the Warden plot
on Harveys Lake Highway. Expecta-
tion was that 500 employees would
obtain work in the $475,000 plant.
H. Austin Snyder,
ministrator of Lehman Schools, was
elected superintendent of Sayre
| schools. :
Jackie Robinson was signed up
for the Brooklyn Dodgers; the first
negro player on a major baseball
team. :
English sheep dog owned by Roy
Rogers of Idetown,
under observation for ten days
after biting John Cooper, Fort
Meade. :
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tered competition
| directed - by = Bernard Garrity. Dr.
Henry M. Laing band accommo-
dated its scheduld, as many Lehman
| instrumentalists played in that
| band also.
You could get a classified ad in
the Dallas Post for as litte as 30
cents. Display rates were 50 cents
a column inch.
News of servicemen: Discharged,
Sgt. Melvin Morris. In Germany,
Russell B. Wilcox. In Bamberg,
Germany, Joe Hardisky.
Died: Arthur C. Kocher, 63, Ruggles,
| heart attack.
| Married: Virginia Lee Price to Paul
|'Nulton: Fay Adams to Harry C.
| Snyder. Vera Shaver. to George
| Swan. Jane Ayre to Thomas Loomis.
| Doris Stookéy to Harold Brobst.
10 Years Ago
Gosart and Katyl set up a. frozen-
| food plan for local customers.
Paul Balshaw and Margaret Gun-
! ton were Dallas Township's mem-
| bers of Northeasta District “Chorus.
| © First day of trout season was the
| theme of the opening of Caddie
| LaBar's ‘store. !
|. Lawrence Shupp, ‘formerly of
Beaumont, lost his left eye in a
plane crash, when his Piper Cub
hit a guy wire in West Virginia.
| Mr. and Mrs. Ray Shiber ob-
served their Golden Wedding.
Redskin Boosters confronted di-
rectors of Dallas-Franklin-Monroe
Township school beard on the sub-
i ject: would the school refuse to
give football stars lettered sweaters,
on grounds that jackets had aready
‘been given to the entire squad?
It was referred to the ‘Athletic
Committee.
Unseasonable snowstorm at Out-
| door Theatre's opening night was
| immortalized in Pillar to Post's ac-
count of the hula dancers’ writh-
ings performed in time to the click-
ing of the windshield wipers.
Died: Carl J. Schreiner, 58, Harveys
| Lake. Mrs. Verna Steele, 71, Sweet
| Valley. Mrs. Fallie B. Steele,
Mooretown. Mrs. Gladys McHugh,
64, North Lake. Russell Bogart, Ide-
| town. Michael Dainowski, Trucks-
ville. Richard Warner, infant, Har-
| veys Lake. Mrs. Vera C. Ashton,
| 60, Harveys Lake.
Married: Jean Kushner to Joseph
| Chukinas. Katherine Noon to Jo- |
seph Moore.
| BINGO WEDNESDAY NIGHT
| Our Lady of Victory Altar and
ay J OE'S GROTTO PIZZA
— Sunset, Harveys Lake i
game Wednesday evening at 8, at
' Sunset.
| vorks
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NEW and USED
CARS and TRUCKS
All Years and Models
Fully Guaranteed
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651 Wyoming Ave.
Kingston, Pa.
Corner Rt. 11 & 809
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James Oliver was. advertising |
Baby chicks were peeping all
over the place.
Bread was eight cents a’ loaf, |
cheese 21 cents a pound, fish fillets |
former ad-|
ordered kept |
Fifty--member Lehman band en-|
in Pittsburgh,
76, |
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1966
+ KEEPING
time.
oil tanker anchors in
| GRAPE PICKERS on
Wrath.” )
U.S. ARMY ordered
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BRESNEF EMERGES
in many countries.
POSTED =x
April 6: HYDROGEN BOMB rescue mission off Spanish
coast, nears completion.
other bombs recovered without incident at that
Lost January 17, three
GREEK GOVERNMENT CANCELS registration of
Mozambique harbor, ready
to pipeline oil to Rhodesia.
the march in California for
higher wages.. (See John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of
to cut consumption of pork
products in half, switch from butter to margarine.
* * *oL
April 7: BERLIN WALL OPENS for annual Easter visitors.
SIXTH SUCCESSIVE DAY of demonstrations
| against government in Saigon.
CASSIUS CLAY'S WIFE
greatest, collects $27,500 in back alimony.
VIKING PRINCESS, Caribbean cruise shop burns.
| 491 rescued, 4 lost, 3 known dead.
MEDICARE DEADLINE EXTENDED.
RUSSIAN PILOTS killed in crash in West Berlin,
turned over to Russians..
says now she’s the
as top man in Soviet.
* * *
April 8: USI FILM, Years of Lightning, Day of Drums,
released for home consumption after being viewed
| STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS increase in Viet
nam.
April 9: H-BOMB RECOVE
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himself alight.
BUDDHISTS PRESS
534%.
command.
accuracy at air-strip
over 100 injured.
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QVEVDELVL
I've always
Pymatuning.
They call it Pymatuning Water-
fowl Area now, but scores of hunt-
ers know it affectionately as Pyma-
tuning Goose - Management Area,
unhappy hunting ground for the
proverbial sitting duck.
tuning myself, I understand the
for opportunity to occupy state-
controlled blinds, previously for
geese only, but now for ducks too.
The goose is everything but pre-
cooked, because he is encouraged
by the state, presumably through
| feed, to return to the waterfowl
| area, where, unbeknownst to them,
the boys in the front row are wait-
ing like Carolina state police.
Apparently the hunter, after put-
ting in an exhaustive day smoking,
| is understandably ill content to sit
| and wait until the flight is directly
overhead. Not only does he lead
| the bird, he leads the guy in the
| next blind too. For that reason, the
Game Commission is starting this
| year a limit of ten shots per hunter
| to keep them from being too grabby.
So, you have not only state-regu-
lated and maintained goose blinds, |
but now a state-regulated format |
| of shooting, All this regulation puts
| me, a sometime upland game hunt- |
| er, off. Having been foiled by any
number of grouse, I can’t help but
wish the geese, who just happened |
| to have developed a more civilized
' pattern of life, had as much of a
chance.
A whisper of a wish in the back
of my mind is that there were a
state information agency for geese.
i sort of like the AAA, that told them
to avoid goose blinds.
Crafts And Folk A
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. Not knowing much about Pyma- |
system to be that hunters register |
* * *
RED, on way to U.S.
* *
April 10: EASTER SUNDAY. Pope prays for peace. .
DERANGED STUDENT douses himself with gaso-
line in front of White House, is foiled in setting
* * *
April 11: SOFT COAL MINERS walk out.
for removal of Premier Ky,
small children join in demonstration.
FHA’S SECOND RAISE in month brings rate to
JACK NICKLAUS second-time winner.
* * *
April 12: SOFT COAL MINERS ignore union back to work
VITAL PASS BOMBED, landslides cut off Viet
Cong supplies from the north.
VIET CONG launches mortar. attack with deadly
near Saigon, 7 U.S. dead,
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Better Leighton Never
ERE VEC VERVE VLEVEVER/ER/EL/ EE DE |
had misgivings about |
An undetermined number of
| people in this area have gotten
| themselves mired down in a vacu-
| um cleaner deal, in which you. buy
la new modern hot-shot cleaner for
he -- now wait a minute -- the
fing is that even though there
isn't a home-type vacuum cleaner
made that's worth close to $289,
you get $25 credit on that price for
every name you steer the salesmen
to who buy one of these cleaners
| The logic that, since the cleaner
isn’t worth the price anyway, so |
it shouldn't matter how many
names you get to defray the ex-
| crbitant cost, getting them mired
down in the same mess too, ap-
parently didn’t occur to those who
now find themselves paying back
the finance company each month
| while digging for more $25 names.
The one saving grace is that the
local police have pretty good in-
formation about the deal and sus- |
pect it to be illegal, although thy-re
| not talking yet. It’s a door$n-door
outfit, supposedly based in Wilkes- |
Barre, in any case, and this column
recommends that,
vacuum cleaner, you buy it from
a merchant you know .
Vice-president of the Noxen
~Henlth Cult is reportedly out of
i to which the President says ‘Turn
about is fair play”.
Also, we leave to his own misery
the Shavertown man whose Satur-
day night was ruined, when he
stepped out of his car to pay a
short visit to one of the stores
(in the shopping center there to buy
la ccup'e pairs of shoes and had a
bottle of liquor and several bottles
| of beer stolen in a matter of three
minutes.
rts Plan To Hold
Introductory Open-House April 19
Back Mountain men and women
producing crafts, handwork and
folk arts are invited to the Intro-
| ductory Openhouse of the Coca-
| luschu Craftsmen —a new craft
| association being established in ‘Co-
, lumbia, Carbon, Luzerne, and
Schuylkill Counties.
The craft openhouse will take
| place Tuesday evening, April 19th,
Gateway Shopping Center.
craftsmen and those interested in
j crafts to become acquainted with
each other and learn what work is
iroine produced within Luzerne
County. Those attending are asked
| to bring four or five items which
| they have produced during the last
two years.
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if you need a:
commission with a strained back, |
There will be an opportunity for !
| Mother-In-Law
| I
| Whin Kathy McGraw
Wass milkin’ wan day, |
| Thomas McCarty
| Kim walkin’ that way;
{ He leaned on the fence
To watch her a while,
And hoped she would: give him
| A bit of a smile. |
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| But while he was watchin’
| There kim a great roar, |
| A mad bull was chargin’ |
| Swate Katy to gore;
| “Run quick,” cried McCarthy,
| “That bull manes to kill.”
But glancin’ behind her,
Swate Katy sat still.
| III
Whin the gentleman cow
| Kim where he could say
| He put down his tail
| And ran fast away,
' And Thomas McCarty
{ Looked on in amaze,
| For the likes he'd not sane
| In all his born days.
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| “Oh Kathy,” he cried,
| “Why did that bull run,
| I thought he would kill you
| Before he was done?”
| “Oh, that is quite aisy,”
| Said Katy McGraw |
“He saw I wass milkin’
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His Mither-in-Law.”
Fred M. Allen
Founder of the Wilkes-Barre
Business College.
‘Harpsicord Concert Is
Completely Delightful
by Catherine Gilbert
booed stunning performance ... de- |
lightful musiemaking in every |
sense of the word.” The writer in |
an Erie newspaper was describing |
the harpsichord playing of a former |
Carverton girl appearing as soloist |
with the Erie Philharmonic Orches- |
tra recently. i
Mary Stephens, now Mrs. Milton |
Sontheimer, is the daughter of the
late. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Stephens
of Carverton. She attended the |
Mountain School, where” Miss Iva
Conklin was teacher, and graduated
from Wyoming High School. (In|
| pre-jointure days Franklin Town-
| ship children went to eight-grade, |
| one-room schools, and attended the
most convenient high school.)
Time for piano practice came ear-
[1y in the morning, when her father
| got up to go to work in the mines. |
Mary's first piano teacher was
| Mrs. Judson Bailey, wife of the |
| minister of Carverton Methodist
| church. She later studied piano and |
| theory with Mrs. Louie Ayre of |
| Trucksville. |
{ After high school Mary attended
St Louis Institute of Music, where |
| she received her Bachelor of Music
| degree. Going to Erie as a teacher
| in the Julian Piano Studios, she
became active in the musical life
of the city.
The Sontheimers, with their eight |
| year old son Paul, live on Glen- |
wood Park Avenue, in the home |
they built with Mary’s grand piano |
{in mind. It has now been joined
| by a harpsichord. j
Mary first played a harpsichord
as accompanist for the Erie Bach |
| Choir, directed by Charles Hender- |
son, former Wilkes-Barre musician. |
i Later Ray Ellerman, a fellow |
teacher left his instrument in her |
care for a few weeks, and the
Sontheimers decided they needed |
one of their own. |
| Last summer Mary was a soloist |
in a Harpsichord Festival at Put-|
In-Bay, Ohio, and has been invited |
to return this year. She also played |
two-harpsichord music with Mv. |
Ellerman. With the Erie Philhar- |
monic March 22 and 23, they per- |
formed Bach’s Concerto in C minor |
for Two Keyboards.
Preparing for the concerts Mary |
said, “I haven't practiced so hard |
lin years!
Mrs. Lena M. Baer
Mrs. Lena M. Baer, 78, Koonsville,
was buried Saturday afternoon in |
Reyburn Cemetery following serv- |
ices conducted by Rev. William
| Howie from the Bronson Funeral
| Home.
Mrs. Baer died early WeWdnes- |
day morning at Nesbitt Hospital,
where she had been admitted two
davs earlier.
She was a native of Union Town-
past fifty years. Her husband Le-
roy died in June of 1964.
She was a member of the Bible
| Protestant Church.
youth and adult groups having craft
programs, as well as school per-|
| sonnel, are encouraged to attend.
For additional information call |
Dallas) or Mrs. Janet Miller, Ext. |
Home Economist, Luzerne County |
} 7:15 p.m. at the Acme Auditorium,! Advisors of Scout, 4-H and other ' Court House Annex, 825-4596.
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Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday
SEALER
Call Coll. 288-6426
Take-out Orders
Phone 639-9771
YMCE News
| Friday, April 15, from 8-10 p.m., at |
the
ning to
ets at Back Mt. “Y” before Friday: |
| trip to the Shrine Circus on Satur- |
day, April 16.
Mt. “Y” at 8:30 a.m. sharp. Reser- |
\ DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
From —
Pillar To Post “ee
by HIX
It was a pretty chilly day, so it seemed like a solid idea to offer
a ride home to the elderly man who had just missed his bus after
a visit to the Dallas Post.. :
“Come on, I'll drive you home,” I said as I sailed out the door,
shrugging into my coat as I went. :
The car throbbed into life, but where was the elderly man? A
minute or two later he appeared, looking somewhat dubious. He
got into the passenger’s seat and settled down warily.
“They tell me you're younger than I am,” he said, and then he
added, “but I must say you don’t look it.”
That much for conversation. He settled back after a few inter-
sections had been successfully negotiated.
“Been driving long?”
“Since about 1922.” !
There was a certain amount of relaxation now apparent, as time
passed.
“You turn right here, and go up the hill.”
I' turned right and drove up the hill. My passenger disembarked,
thanked me for the ride, and made gratefully for the porch steps.
Glowing with a Girl Scout feeling of a deed well done, starting
the day off with service to my fellowman, I backed into the parking
lot with my usual flourish (ask the attendant at the Atlantic filling
station about that flourish. The last time he was ‘aboard, the flourish
took in the apple tree, which is what I get for showing off.)
Inside the office, the staff was in stitches. . :
“You had him scared to death,’ was ‘the report, “He wanted
to know if you could drive, how long you had been driving, and
how old you were. We told him.” go
“You mean you let me down, you scum ?”’
So there went the Girl Scout halo.
Probably the poor guy would. have preferred to nip down to
the restaurant. and inhale a cup of coffee while waiting for the next
bus two hours off. ‘
Like the time some kind soul gave me a ride, in the days be-
tween cars. It was lovely of her, but if there was anything I didn’t
want to do at that point, it was to go home.
I was waiting for a bus myself, to go to town. Delivered at my
door, I had to scurry down over the hill and nab the bus at the in-
tersection with the highway.. It was a close thing. But it would
have been pretty discourteous to refuse a lift from somebody who
was oozing philanthropy. : :
And in those far-off days, there was always another bus.
That was before the round trip fares were hiked, and people
suddenly found it was cheaper to support a. car than the Transit
Company, to say nothing of the convenience.
I can see it now, the unwilling victim of a generous impglse,
waiting until the small Austin swayed around the corner, and then
furtively dropping down the hill to start all over again.
Most people do better just left to themselves, to solve their own
problems.
But hats off to the folks who used to pick up a frozen associate
editor on snowy mornings, on her way totheDallas Post, along about
twelve years ago when cars were harder to get than they are nowa-
days. James Martin was one of those people. Many a morning his
car skidded to a stop, and there was transportation, with a car
heater sending out welcome waves of warmth. ]
There were a lot of other folks too, who made their children
crowd together on the back seat to make room for Hix, dropping
her off at the Post before going on to deliver the freight at school.
It was all deeply appreciated. 3
But it was pure joy to be back in the driver's seat again.
x 4 x ¥
‘ Kd oy a Eo ‘
A SALUTE TO J. FRANKLIN ROBINSON"
Former neighbors of the Dr. J. Franklin Robinson
family on Mt. Greenwood Road, now Pioneer Avenue,
were shocked to learn of Dr. Robinson's sudden death at
Greenfield, Massachusetts. ;
Too many men are dying of heart attacks in the
prime of life. oR :
Too often the men who die are those who can render
the greatest service to their fellowmen,
In Dr. Robinson’s case, he was in the high echelonfl
of those men who had advanced the study of psychiatry
in its relation to troubled children.
His articles on the subject were legion, his standing
in the Child Psychiatry field recognized internationally.
As head of the Service Center in Wilkes-Barre, he
will be a difficult man to replace. Twenty-five years as
director have given him an insight into behavior prob-
lems, one which will be almost impossible to duplicate.
‘He could have been making a fantastic salary in a
place such as New York, but he preferred to remain in
Wilkes-Barre. :
Such men are next to impossible to find.
The word is dedicated.
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There will be a co-ed swim on'
Central YMCA. Those plan-
ttend must purchase tick- |
Back Mt. YMCA is sponsoring a |
Busses leave Back
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| ship, resident of Koonsville for the
| vations must be made in advance at |
the Back Mt. YMCA. There will be |
a small charge for transportation.
| Admission to the circus is free. For
further information, please call Back |
Mt. ¥V’.. Back Mt. YMCA is 2)
created by infla-
tion, and federal
income and
estate taxes.
288.2378
Si of United Fund.
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Janet Crosson at 675-3197 (RD 4,
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