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: $5.00 a year; $3.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-State subscriptions, $5.50 a year; $3.50 six months or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association Q Member National Editorial Association 4 Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. vat Editor and. Publisher =... c.avihiiiviii cits Myra Z. RisLEY Associate Editor :..... 080 00000 Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Social Editor. ........... Fabloid Editor ...... vesab bu sis Advertising Managers... =. 000 idos Louise MARKS Business Manager: ....c 00 20000000 Doris R. MALLIN Circulation Manager ......... Mgrs. 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ANDERSON CATHERINE GILBERT Editorially Speaking Setback To The Community A serious setback to the community is the abandon- ment of adult education classes at the Dallas High School. It is a matter of dollars and cents, depending entirely upon millage. If the program cannot be financed, it has to go by the board. Area school boards are up against stone wall. When the adult evening school was first projected, it was an outgrowth of a PTA project launched by the Dallas Borough, and housed at Dallas Township high school. An earlier evening school sponsored by the Recrea- tion Department had fallen through after a trial run. It was housed at the present Westmoreland building. With the adoption of an adult educational program by Dallas District, people who had very little outlet for their desires to improve themselves, found themselves hobnobbing with folks who worked during the day but ‘seized the chance to learn a language, paint a picture, or improve their typing at night. Interchange of ideas was valuable. We know one person who embarked upon a career, entirely based on impetus gained from an evening class. ~ Many former typists polished up their work. Many women discovered the delights of sketching in black and white, or translating an autumn hillside into a riot of color on canvas. ! Dozens learned how to turn a length of material into * a modish dress. Education, we believe, is not entirely for the young. It is for people who really WANT to discover and create, folks who are anxious to learn, and willing to share their dearly-bought wisdom with others. The adult education program was something to which a resident could point with pride, a come-on for potential future residents, a step toward a far-seeing community. Too often this area has not been able to see the forest for the trees. We have passed up chance after chance to preserve some small area of park space within our crowded areas. We are now passing up an opportunity to make our area outstanding in another way. Education costs money. Schools cost money. Custo- dians cost money. Teachers cost money. It is going to skyrocket. It is skyrocketing now. It is going to cost more and more, because the de- mands are greater and greater. Considering the overwhelming total bill, can we afford to abandon a proportionately minor cost, when the cost will render a needed service to the community? There are plentv of people who think that anything beyond the classic Three R’s is a waste of time and the taxpayers’ money. They will tell you: “Well, look at ME. I never had nuthin dona for me when I was a kid. J got . ont and'duo for it. And I'm makin’ more than any of them high priced teachers.” There is no percentage in arguing the point. The fact that the uneducated are invariably jealous of those with a diploma, is completely natural. There was a lot of sane and sensible education to be obtained in a one-room school. The small ones learned from the older pupils. Many presidents of the United States started their careers by learning their spelling lessons in a one-room school. One-room schools were what we had. And the idea of a grown-up going to school would have been laughed down. Education never ceases. It requires an open mind. It is a great advantage if there is a community focus where people who want to learn, can go and do so, meet- ing with other peonle who have the same desires. We feel that this area should not satisfy itself with education which ends with graduation from high school. It should offer open doors to those who are eager to keep their minds alert and growing. 4 SAVE ON PRINTING COSTS. BUY FROM THE POST “It's the talk of the town” (...and it's coming from the telephone company) | thirty years from now, Only Yesterday It Happened 30 Years Ago So, there were more cute hee at the top of the page, but the | deadline was drawing near. We can see it now: a grizzled grandparent trying to explain to his grandchildren that it wasn't his fault his picture was taken in Buster Brown collar. The grandmothers wil have easier sled- ding, Winners next week. In these days of hormone pills and multiple births, quintuplets are not the front page news they used to be in the time of the Dionnes. The report from Mrs. Emma Shaver, who made a special trip to see them, was that they were just like any other youngsters, only more So. Senator Sordoni added to ‘his Lake holdings by purchase of the Sheminski farm, bringing acreage to around 1500. Local option was on four ballots: Lake, Borough, Dallas and Kingston Townships. WCTU all shook up. Dallas Junior Woman's Glee Club made its initial appearance. PTA | meeting. | Supervisor Bruce Long was re- pairing on Lehigh Street. Rash of buglaries locally, same MO as burglaries in the Valley: Student government was being | tried at Dallas Borough School. Connie Hislop was star performer as rider in the donkey baseball con- test sponsored by American Legion. Bob Hislop, over six feet, had trouble not dragging his heels. Walked off the burro without dis- mounting. Less milk given by Luzerne Coun- ty cows than by those in Wyoming. Luzerne County had 2,120 dairy herds. Married: Marion Virginia Mills to Walter Steelman Jr. Eggs were 29 cents a dozen, pork shoulders 21 cents a pound, butter two pounds for 75 cents. And you could get bacon for 35 cents, all wrapped in two half-pound. pack- ages. Less, if in a pound box. It Happened 20 Years Ago Francis McCarty was honored by | Back Mountain firemen for twenty | years of service as chief in Trucks- | ville. | Dallas-Shavertown Water Com- | pany turned on its new well at the Zinn Plot, serving 100 families 'in Trucksville. Summer home of John S. Mitchell at Orange was completely destroyed by fire. Five children to safety at 5:30 a.m. Parents were at a con- vention. THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1966 KEEPING POSTED appointed Heir apparent to Dean September 21: NICHOLAS KATZENBACH under-secretary of State. Rusk? NEW YORK gets five inches of rain. on water shortage. MARCOS SPEAKS to United Nation, says Asian peace for Asians. MOON MISSION a failure, surveyor spins toward crash on moon. WALTER RUETHER advises investigate price in labor-management tilts. Who started this thing, anyhow? No effect * * * September 22: ARTHUR GOLDBERG speaks before U.N. Theme, Vietnam. INVESTIGATION OF Adam Clayton Powell, repre- sentative from Harlem. GOLDBERG, GROMYKO meet at private dinner followed by private talk. SURVEYOR CRASHES into moon. COSA NOSTRA MOBSTERS round-up in New York, largest since Appalachia. GENERAL MOTORS price increase less than Ford and Chrysler. * * * September 23: HURRICANE INEZ brewing. MEKONG DELTA FLOODING, worst much of rice crop destroyed. COSA NOSTRA members bail set at a million apiece. MOSCOW HUMES DOWNS 1: S. peace a. in years, September 25: WO TYPHOONS in Japan leave 67,000 homeless, landslides bury villages on dopes of Mt. Fuji. ; * * * September 26: COSA NOSTRA questioning starts, bomb scare, hearing curtailed. 5 MALAYSIA ASKS ASIAN SOLUTION for Asians, followine Mao's lead. EHRHARD CONFERS with Johnson on support of troons in West Germany. MASSIVE UPHEAVAL in Red China, book burn- ing, graves desecrated. Red Guards resemble Brown Shirts under Hitler. McNAMARA RETURNS from Rome with ideas of sharing Nuclear planning with NATO. INEZ THREATENING West Indies, suspicion of Judy arising. SUPPLY DEPOTS bombed again. FORD CUTS BACK increase in prices to meet competition of GM and Chrysler. * September 27: LBJ *AND ShARD at Cape Rénnedy. NEW ASSEMBLY MEETS in Saigon. JAPANESE ROCKET launched, goes off course. LBJ SIGNIFIES INTENTION to meet with other leaders opposing Communism, in Manilla, at Pres- | ident Marco’s invitation. Top brass from Australia and New Zealand will also attend. NATIONAL GUARD called out to quell riot in San Francisco, stemming from shooting of a negro boy by a policeman. AMERICAN AIRLINE STRIKE postponed for a day. NOT GUILTY says prodominantiy neero jury in trial of a white man accused of murder. * * * September 28: SAN FRANCISCO quiet after night of rioting. VIET CONG nuts out peace feelers. FHRHARD FTIES home to Germany. INEZ LASHES islands in Caribbean, menaces Dominican Republic. Jackson took Dallas 9 to 3, a ninth inning bringing in seven runs. | prices were rising, costs rising. | Donald Grose was | mander of the Legion. Overbrook Gun Club wanted curb. on gun-toting youths. Mrs. Daniel Shaver raised $205 for purchase of intruments for King- ston Township High School's new ing its verdict on war criminals | Ribbentrop and Funke. ; Kermit Sickler was with the forces of occupation in Japan. Died: brook. Theodore Swartwood, | formerly of Centermoreland. 40, T. Thetga. Ruth M. Hackett to Har- old A. Brown. | Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Sherman | Wardas, 51st. It Happened 1 0 Years Ago Sandsdale and Hillside cattle won | firsts in the Black and White Show | in Harrisburg. | Doc Jordan took 22 ribbons for | dahlias Show. Lehman-Jackson-Ross and Lake- | { Noxen, both in need of additional | | school space, felt their way toward | jointure. Lehman Methodist marked | centennial. its | Rev. Russell Lawry was new min- ister at Dallas Methodist. Chief of Police Coslett withdrew charges of drunken driving against Walter Donnelly of Bunker Hill. Donnelly had appeared before J of was posted. Withdrawal of charges was made in Mrs. Williams’ absence. | Heavy equipment arrives at Jack- son Institution, 80 employed. Mrs. Daisy Cease Wint, 86, Sweet Valley. Clarence C. Neely, 83, Lake Silkworth.. Jacob Traver, 81, Ruggles. Married: Bette Marie Montross to Robert Statnick. OPA price lines were not holding, | elected Com. | band. Verus Weaver was conductor. | ‘A military tribunal was prepar-'| William L. Reese, 76, Fern- | { Married: Wilma D. Gay to John in the New York Dahlia ber 7 P Beatrice Williams and $500 bail | Died: G. L. Dodson, 61, Shavertown. HELP. YOUR SAFETY { |