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Editorially Speaking
Peace On Earth
Peace on earth, the dream of man throughout the
ages.
Peace on earth, goodwill toward men.
Freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom
from tyranny.
It is a dream, as far removed as the outer galaxies of
the Universe.
It is a dream, capable of fulfillment only by man’s
realization of his own responsibilities.
The realization by EVERY man, not the chosen few.
Men cannot be coerced into this realization, by any
outside force.
It must come from within.
Miracle Of The Hollow Sycamore
by Fred Bauer
A folk tale printed on a Christmas card, worthy of
being enshrined with the familiar Christmas legends.
After the angel had appeared to Joseph and he had
fled with his family into Egypt, the Scriptures turn mute,
leaving another period in Jesus’ life behind a curtain of
mystery. We know nothing of the Holy Family's activi-
ties or whereabouts, only that they stayed there until
Herod's death. Yet many legends have filtered down
through the ages, including one I like so much about a
hollow sycamore tree.
In the Egyptian village of Mataria, near Cairo, lived
a cousin of Joseph named Lamius, and it was to his house-
hold that Joseph headed with his wife and child. When
Lamius heard that the weary couple was on the outskirts
of town fleeing Herod's wrath, he set out to meet them.
They had hardly embraced when mounted soldiers
bore down upon them from the East. Lamius snatched
the baby from Mary's arms amd led the way to a grove of
trees. He sent Joseph off into a nearby vineyard and ran
with Mary to a huge sycamore.
“You must hide inside this tree,” he said. ‘My chil-
dren play games here; this is one of their favorite hiding
spots.”
With Lamius’ help Mary climbed into the tree’s hol-
low bole. . Then he gently passed Jesus to her. Before
he could 3 ‘move away from the tree, a horse pounded into
the grove. The young soldier dismounted and spoke
almost before his feet hit the ground:
“We are looking for a couple with a small child. They
are fugitives. Have you seen them?”
“I'm afraid I can’t help you,’ said Lamius weakly.
Suddenly, the soldier pushed past him and tapped on the
base of the sycamore.
“This tree's seen some history.”
-Lamius swung around, fists clenched, ready to fight
for his cousin’s wife and child. Openmouthed he looked
at the tree. The entrance to the trunk was closed! Com-
‘pletely covered over by a kind of spider’s web as dense as
a rug woven from new wool!
“It sounds hollow,” said the soldier,
alive.”
He studied the sycamores leafv boughs for a moment,
then remounted his horse. “Shalom,” he said and was gone.
“Shalom,” answered Lamius in a dazed whisper.
As soon as the soldier was out of sight. L.amius turned
and clawed furiously at the heavv web. Pulling it awav,
he looked into the smiling face of Mary. In her arms, the
baby slept unaware of the danger which had just passed.
On the way to join Joseph, Mary told Lamius of the
mission Jesus had and she swore him to secrecy saying,
“In the ripeness of time, God will make known to man
the Presence of His Son.”
“He already has,” said Lamius softly.
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Can She Be Panicked?
We ask you mothers of young high school girls to
think long thoughts before you permit them to baby-sit
until all hours of the night.
We ask you to inquire of yourself: is your daughter
responsible and is she mature enough to know how to
take care of herself in a sudden emergency?
Can she be panicked inté letting a stranger into the
house?
Is there a chain on the door, and does she have in-
structions to see that it is in place after her employers
leave?
And of the employers we inquire:
Do you realize your own responsibility in hiring a
fourteen year old girl to remain with your children until
a late hour of night?
Do you see to it that she is safe in your household?
Does she have the telephone numbers of police and
fire departments clearly printed and easily at hand?
Does she know where she can reach your doctor in
case of sudden illness of a child?
Does she know where to reach YOU?
Baby-sitting is the accepted form of earning money
for a young girl, for an older girl, for a middle-aged wom-
an. It is an easy way of obtaining extra monev. and is
a wonderful help to mothers who would seldom get an
evening off if it were not for the baby-sitters.
In some communities the high school boys are willing
to do their studying in somebody else’s house, and not
averse to picking up a bit of extra money in the process.
We know a number of responsible high school boys who
are in great.demand as sitters.
A strong-arm boy is not ordinarily panicked.
‘yet it seems
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THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22,1966
Only
Yesterday
30 Years Ago
That concrete link between Eaton- |
ville and Sugar Hollow, 3.17 miles |
of it,
| if it might even get under way that |
| winter. Contract, = said Norman |
Johnstone, Motor Club secretary, |
was awarded to a Northumberland |
firm. |
The local American Legion Post |
was officially named for Lloyd |
Daddow and Gomer Isaacs. Daddow, |
| enlisting in 1918, died four weeks |
later of influenza, without ever |
having tasted battle. Isaacs died at |
Fort Oglenthorpe, Ga.
The Legion expected to establish |
| a clubroom over the B & B Hard-
tvare Store.
The new annex to Kingston Town- |
ship High School was’ in the works,
with help obtained from the WPA. |
Cost, $47,000. Ground to be broken |
| January 11, 1937. Work was to |
provide 300 man-months of em-
ployment, give Kingston Township |
status of junior-senior high school, |
permit enlargement. of curriculum. |
-| Six new rooms.
Chris Eipper was carrying the:
| week for Dallas Township's stand |
[in the matter of tuition costs for |
| Township pupils being educated at
| Dallas Borough. Borough pupils al-
| so being accommodated at Town- |
| ship, four each. Pot and kettle. |
Heavy mails complicated maiters |
for RFD carriers.
George Raymond Goodwin 5
| Lake Silkworth, died in the hos- |
| pital after having his leg amputated |
| following .a hunting accident.
Dallas Borough seniors were pre- |
senting ‘Tin Hero”, with Elsie |
Johnson ‘the mother and Robert
Fleming the bashful son. In the
cast were Jane Knecht, Bill Mann,
Elsie Culp, Alberta Himmler, Ro-
berta. VanCampen, Florence Kelley,
William Niemeyer, Leila Cragle,
Verna Sheppelman, and Raymond
| Kuderka.
20 Years Ago
{
Fourteen thousand foxes were
killed through the State since June
1, 1946. Game Commission en- |
couraged the kill to stamp out!
predators, lead to better hunting. |
Rabies was also’ an EVei-profont
threat.
Uncle Frank Ruggles, out Meeker |
way, celebrated his 77th birthday,
by chopping wood.
Joseph B. Schooley, - Harris Hill |
Road, died of a sudden heart wt
tack.
Stanley Davies was about to Jove
| for study in Stockholm.
Lt. Robert L. Fleming wis iar 3
ed his permanent citation for
bravery in rescuing two wounded
| airmen adrift on life rafts.
to the WCTU - on the front page,
et.
? The Jacob Travers were ‘marking
| their 55th anniversary.
| - Christmas issue, filled with greet-
| ings, green ink somewhat faded with
| passage of the years.
10 Years Ago
Salk vaccine was being given to
children. This was before oral vacs
cine was perfected. Salk was the
answer to a mother’s prayer, Wipe
| out Polio. Has everbody forgotten ?
Linear was installing = heavy
machinery on the front page, direct-
ly beneath the Christmas Greetings |
picture of choir singers carefully
composed by Jimmie Kozemchak,
his annual Christmas present to the
| people of the Back Mountain.
Arthur Kushke, Elmcrest, was on
| the critical list after a heart attack.
A drunken driver ran down 4 |
emall child in Shavertown. The |
child was Barbara Brown. (Because |
| this ic Christmas time, we are not |
| publishing the name of the Noxen
| driver.)
Senator Flack’s bill to get tax-
ation out of Meadowcrest was not |
approved.
Miners National Bank announced
its annual dividend, 85 cents per
share.
Christmas observances in all the
| churches, Girl Scouts singing Christ-
mas carols, Brownies flying up, the
| American Legion planning a Christ-
mas paxty for the children, Christ-
mas lights and Christmas music. An-
| other chain-letter craze.
| Mrs. Grald Stout headed the Book
Club.
Married: Verna R. Lasko to Gary
B. Bliss. Barbara Lorentz to Grant
| K. Middlestead. Jessie Armitage to
Orin Beckerman.
Died: Richard London, 66, Harveys
Lake. Dr. Herbert C. White, 63
| Washington. Mrs. Gilda Benscoter,
| 51, Muhlenburg. Bruce Long, 74,
| Idetown. Mrs. Emma Frace, 88,
| Trucksville. James B. Robinson, 55,
| Sweet. Valley.
‘Mrs. Garinger Fills In
[Rames Ot H. C. Class
| Mrs. Nesbitt Garinger called to
| fill in some gaps on the identifi
| cation of the Class of 1911. Nesbitt,
| it seems, was on the end of the
| first row, :and his ‘name was omitted.
Margaret Bennett LaBar stands to
the left of Althea Garinger.
And in the row headed by Flor-
Ruby, Elston, and alongside are Alice
Brace and Goldie Hawk. Will Ruby
Elston please speak up?
How about those smallér ¢hildren
in the news again. Looked as |'
| ~~ Mrs. C. S. Hildebrant was hostess |
| but
| talents for operating upon the vie- |
|
|
z Gordon, Ruth Mott replaces
in the other picture?
5 ESE EEE EER IER EERE EDED
KEEPING POSTED
December 14: SATELLITE BUG-HOUSE launched for
three-day orbit to determine effect of weightless-
ness on lower forms of life.
BILL MOYERS SEVERS connection with White
House to take $100,000 job in publishing field.
MRS. KENNEDY PROTESTS publication of book,
Death of a President, for which she gave permis-
sion. Takes exception to some of material. Look
will start serializing book, volume to come out in
spring.
* * *’
December 15: WALT DISNEY DIES, aged 65. Had lung
surgery a month earlier.
UNITED STATES denies bombing residential areas
in Hanoi. Photos show strikes well apart from
residential areas. Says anti-aircraft missiles could
have fallen on city.
HOFFA SAYS CUT OUT a one-day protest strike
in Detroit, as courts put on pressure to get him
into prison for start of eight-year term.
* * *
December 16: GREAT LAKES SHIPPING SEASON ends,
later than usual.
GOVERNORS CONVENE at White Sulphur.
LOADED FREIGHTER sinks’ in . Montreal harbor,
was about to take off.
LAOS UNVEILED as base of war for thirteen
years. Forces for war against communists have
been quietly there for years.
FOUR MAJOR AUTO manufacturers cut back
production, say government safety measures im-
possible to meet.
* * *
December 17: NEW PLEDGE of China to aid North Viet-
nam.
CHANCE OF SETTLEMENT OF HASSLE over
book on Kennedy.
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December 18: SPANISH TRAIN WRECK takes 25.
ROMNEY SAYS HIS SNUB of Goldwater will not
affect his prospects as a presidential candidate.
* * * :
December 19: U.S. ASKS U-THANT to start peace feelers.
SHOPLIFTERS BUSY as Christmas nears.
POSTOFFICES HANDLING half billion pieces of
mail a day.
B-52 RATD on neutral zone.
BILLY BAKER to go on trial January 9.
GRACIOUS LIVING for the Clayton Powell clan
beino investicated.
_SOVIET-AMERICAN agreement on nuclear ban
in space.
PTIGE NTICT EAR BLAST underground in Nevada.
STAR FIGHTERS stand idle in West Germany.
NO U.S. AGREEMENT on wheat for India.
* * *
December 20: GREEK GOVERNMENT FALLS. Reason,
blamed for tragedy in sinking of Greek ship. 230
lost in Aeoean Sea,
TIN WINDS TTP 91 at cession.
REPORT VIET CONG controls 80 percent of roads
in South Vietnam, surface Sophy hazardous:
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Significant Poligical Novel.
Drury’ s “Capable Of Honor”
Review by Hix
“Capable of Honor” is the latest
book by Allen Drury, third in a
series that will embrace, when com-
pleted, four volumes.
This new political novel, to be
had at the Back Mountain Me-
morial Library, is about as pointed
an indictment of the press and of
the television coverage of events |
as could be written. | book.
In it, the methods by which!
readers and viewers are misled, by |
adroit omissions and innuendos, |
come to life in so gripping a fashion
that it .is difficult to lay it down, |
It is a long book, as long as “Advise |
and Consent” and its sequel, “A
come,
in the making. ‘
evitably toward the next.
“Capable of Honor”
| Shade of Difference.” |
And in it, Mr. Drury comes of age. |
With twenty years of journalistic |
career as a back ground, during |
which he coverer national politics |
and the Senate, Mr. Drury has not |
| only the political framework upon |
which to build an enthralling story, |
employs without mercy his |
tim without benefit of anaesthetic. |:
There are places in which the
punch is telegraphed, and with grim |
purpose. You KNOW exactly what
is going to happen, and. WHY. This |
is the art of story-telling at its |
finest.
Yo
The television commentators and | =
internationally known columnists
are thinly disguised.
The entire fabric of the purpose- |
ful slanting of the news to achieve |
a definite purpose, is woven so skil- |
fully that the reader finds himself
swept breathlessly to his own con-
clusions, shuddering, but helpless.
There is a fourth volume yet to
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Ag. Extension Offers
Course In Rushing
A course in the rushing of chairs
is being offered by Janet Miller,
Home Economist for Luzerne Coun-
ty Extension.
with no work contemplated, is
A session ' for discussion only,
scheduled for Thursday, January 5,
at 1:30, at the home of Mrs. Leroy
Brown in Lehman.
If the program is launched, thera
will be three more sessions, on suc-
ceeding Thursdays, at the same time |
and place.
Women are asked to bring a
piece of furniture, such as a stool |
or a small chair.
Those who have Hitchcock chairs
in process of stencilling may learn
how to seat them properly. The
authentic material is hard to find,
having been largely replaced by the
Kraft brown paper fiber. Mrs. Mil--
let ‘hopes for a source of supply
of the natural rush,
“Preserve and Protect,” now
Few books leave the reader with |
| the determination to start again
at the very beginning, to be sure’
that no points have been missed,
and that each situation builds in-
Safely Valve
APPEAL GENEROUSLY MET
| Dear Mrs.
| We would like to offer our sin- |
| cere thanks and appreciation to all |
| those good people of Fernbrook |
| who responded |
|
our appeal for funds. |
It was our desire to help. bring |
Christmas to those among us who
| had such need.
| Owing to the warm hearts of our
| community and the spirit displayed |
| by them, we can assure all, this!
| has been done.
May each and every one of you
have a blessed Christmas, for be-
cause of your generosity some
child's eyes will glow come Christ-
mas morn. |
Hicks:
Sincerely,
Fernbrook Neighborhood
Committee
WANTS SEWING PLANT
Dear Dallas Post:
I read an article or 2 in the paper
about the sewing factory. I'd like to
give you my thoughts about it.
I've lived in the Back Mountain
nearly all my life. I have six years
as an experienced sewing machine
operator. I work in Luzerne. Be-
cause of that, on my lunch hour
I run over to Luzerne Bank to
have a Christmas Club, and saving
account. I haven't been in Grace
Caves in over a year, because its!
so handy to go to the Globe on |
my lunch hour and save my preci- |
ous ‘time after work to hurry home |
to Dallas where my husband and |
children: are.
the things for my men. Yes I know
I run in Buddies Men Shop to buy
Joe Hand has a lovely store merch-
andise about the same price; If I
worked in Dallas, I'd shop here, but
as long as I'm down the line I shop
there. I was in Joe’s just once this
year 1966. Twice aweek I stop at
the Giant for grocerys.
There are a number of persons
from the Back Mountain where I!
work. One lunch time last week a
lady from Chase said to a woman
from Dallas, do you shop in Dallas
much ? Her answer was no and her
reasons some as I mentioned above
There was a women from Fernbrook
sitting there she smiled and said
! that's why she doesn’t seem to get |
| use Shavertown, or Dallas stores.
i So come on Dallas have the dress
| shop come in, let some of our local
| business get some of that money the |
women earn.
I can’t see why Dallas is bucking |
| Jacobs opening a convalescent hone.
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is such a I think that would have been very
good for our town of Dallas.
The A, z 0 Symbol. .
so generously to
enjoy the paper.
DALLAS, PENNSYLYANIA
From—
Pillar To Post...
by HIX : ¢
Look like a White Christmas, an answer to prayer for those
parents who have ‘been hiding bright new sleds under old rugs in
the garage, hoping for snow on Christmas.
And for those ski enthusiasts who have been viewing the mild
fall weather with a premonition of rain instead of snow.
It's difficult to suit everybody, weather-wise.
Snow looks handsome on a Christmas card. It's the ticket for
kids with new sleds and for those people of a slightly more advanced
age who will go churning down the ski-slopes, given a bit of luck,
and may possibly wear that badge of heroism, a plaster cast on a
broken leg, accepting court from other skiers, momentarily more
mobile.
In these climes, you get used to snow, and to winter driving.
After all, it’s the only kind of driving there is available. 7
Truck-drivers from Florida, on their first trip to the Pennsyl Ml)
vania hills in the winter time, are apt to go into a panic when con-
fronted with that long five-mile hill on the East End, even when the
snowplows have rendered it completely passable.
On a stormy night, with snow swirling across the windshield,
and the landscape dropping away in a horrifying manner, curve after
curve, mile after mile, and with icy spots concealed under the white
blanket, it is not too much wonder that southern drivers yearn to
be back on, level ground, rolling through the citrus groves in bright
sunshine or even in one of those terrific downpours that whip 4 in
from the Gulf and blot out vision.
That East End Boulevard is no joke in a snowstorm, but neither
is the road into town from the Back Mountain, especially since the
‘speed limit has been increased to 55, and trucks sail by at 60, leaving
a small car rocking in the wind of their passing, and looking as if
it were tied to a post.
Sometimes we wonder how the trucks and the interstate buses
get away with their speed. We've never seen either a truck or a
bus stopped by the side of the road, with the driver getting the busi-
ness from the State Police.
Tuesday was pretty bad around here, with the snow topping
off a freezing rain. Roads were plowed and cindered, but no appa-
ratus could keep up with the situation, and by mid-day, with the
snow still coming, drivers were stalling on the hills and sliding hope-
lessly backwards. All the makings of front page accidents.
Some years ago we had a good solid two feet of the stuff, but
most people had brains enough not to start out, and there was an
astonishing lack of accidents.
anything.
Usually we get all set for a White Christmas, saying to ourselves,
THIS year we're really going to make it. We'll go jingle-belling all
over the place, the carol-singers will stamp snow off their feet as
they go trooping into the church basement for their hot chocolate
after going the rounds, and on Christmas morning we'll wake up
to a silent world, with cardinals against the snow, and bright sun-
shine streaming over the drifts.
And then, two nights before Christmas, it starts to rain, and
the grass appears under the melting snowdrifts.
One week later, on New Year’s Eve, the temperature drops like
a plummet. the roads glaze, and winter is really here at last.
The folks who have had one for the road, end up in the ditch,
or force somebody else into the ditch, and the front page is filled
with three-column cuts, wrecked cars with X marking the spot.
You can always count on that zero night. That's the night the
kids roar in and out, leaving the front door open in their haste to
get to where they are going next, after polishing oft the Happy New
Year refreshments.
And right after New Years, the Back Mountain can go into
hibernation, watching the mercury shrink down into the bulb, and
throwing another log of apple wood on the open fire.
Something pretty nice about winter, after all.
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An of us working mothers would | HAP HAZARD SAYS
' like to spend that extra hour a |
day in our own back yard.
Bless you of Dallas Post. I always \that 1 wanted returned but y
so T' Hix wid yez!
Sincerely
Mrs. L; Ah, g'wan — Hix
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