{ 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 @ : < Member National Editorial Association eo Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Editor and ‘Publisher .......... ides Myra Z. Risto bi Associdte Editor v.nils i ov ts Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Soeetal Editor ........ co Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON Babloid Editor... 5 solve rar iva: CATHERINE GILBERT Advertising Manager Louise MARKS ; Editorially Speaking Suro It Were Gene, Or Chuck, Or Steve? Mark Twain forecast the loss of a boy in the caves near Hannibal, Missouri many years ago, when the im- mortal Tom Sawyer was born in the brain of an author who was popularly thought of as a humorist, but who actually had the human touch which could bring tears as well as smiles to his readers. There was never anything humorous about Tom Sawyer’s experiences in the cave. People expected it to be funny, because Mark Twain had established a reputa- tion for seeing life through a pair of spectacles denied the usual writer. Readers felt vaguely cheated when the Tom Sawyer who adroitly conned his playmatesinto painting his fence for him, failed to bring a smile in the cave. Parents wh'o have been hoping and praying that the three young boys would be found before time ran out for them, are faced with stark reality, not a situation in a book. When a child is killed in an accident, it is a final thing with a grim period punctuating a young life, and its all too short paragraphs. But the period is there, and though heartbreakingly final, the account is closed, the life and death complete, the child safe. There can be mourning, but there is no suspense. When a child is lost in the all-enveloping darkness of a cave, where the next faltering step may lead to a shrieking plunge over a cliff into unsounded depths, or to another passageway which seems to offer hope, but ends in a blank wall. the father and mother are faced with a situation that is all but unbearable. They follow the child step by step, building in their imagination his fear and his final desperation. They see the flilckering flashlight grow dim. They see him hoarding his fading beam of hope, switching it off as he stands in stygian blackness, pressing the button again for a brief survey of his echoing prison, finding that the battery no longer lights the tiny bulb. A massive search is fruitless. The community knows that rock slides are frequent in the labyrinth of under ground passages. They have seen, far: below an overhanging ledge, the bones of an Indian who explored the cave, perhaps in flight from an enemy, perhaps in curiosity. Parents of lost children are doomed to look at every = face, A . elie. They may know in, their immost ~ heatts that the child is blessedly dead, that he was merci- fully killed instantly in a fall of rock, but there remains the uncertainty, the dreadful necessity to reconstruct those last hours of terror. Over the years to come, there hangs the uncertainty, the faint flicker of hope that somehow, some way, the child has found another path to the sunshine, that he may be living in another village, forgetful of his identity be- cause of the shock of his experience. Or that he was never in the cave at all, that he might have decided to run away. For the parents of a lost child, there is never a period to the story. For years to come, they wonder. They may be numbed into acceptance, but still they wonder. ; And every parent who listens to the account over the radio, with the growing abandonment of hope, trans- lates the three lost boys into terms of his own children. Suppose it were Gene, or Chuck, or Steve? A cave does not have to be a winding, tortuous maze of tunnels, to cause instant death. Any child who digs into a bank to make himself a hideout, is inviting disaster. Shifting sand can cause a slide which can smother a child, or crush him by sheer weight, and within five feet of safety. . Many children have lost their lives within the con- fines of their own neighborhood, from just that perfectly natural ambition to burrow into the ground. Hannibal, Missouri, is closer than you think. "The Tumult And The Shouting Dies” “The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart . Election is over. The candidates are either drawing a long breath of relief or licking their wounds. It is probably human nature, but it does seem as if a Primary Election brings out the worst in everybody. It is politically acceptable to cast aspersions upon an opponent’s integrity, doubt upon his ancestry, and view his aspirations with a jaundiced eye, in print, at the height of a brisk campaign. At any other time, a libel suit would follow the type of allegation that is freely ex- chanced in the heat of battle. It is the same kind of thinking thht causes a police- man to turn his back while a member of the goon squad beats up a strike-breaker, or a picket tears out somebody’s hair by the roots. In evervdav life, anti-social behavior is not condoned, but in a political campaign, anything goes. It's a reversion to the cave-man who lives under a thin veneer of civilization in anv human being. We find ourselves continually horrified at the stuff that constitutes the small-change of election talk. It's dog eat dog, and the devil take the hindmost. A man running for office must develop thé hide of a crocodile, the same kind of protective coloration that is necessary in the newspaper business, where you're a sit- ting duck for anybody’s bazooka. But as Harry Truman remarked, the heat. get out of the kitchen.” We're thinking of running for dog-catcher, come No- vember. We feel it might add to our popularity. “If you can’t stand obt2a = ~ | responsible. "SAVE ON PRINTING COSTS. BUY FROM THE POST { | Only Yesterday | It Happened 3 0 Years Ago ¥ tniabone By-Pass seemed to be | dying on its feet. It was a 100 to | 1 shot that the highway would not | be built in 1937 and probably not | lin 1938. Public apathy and politics | Great Exposition in Cleveland | ready to open. Dan Waters was not permitted | | to resign from secretaryship of Dal- [las School Board. Fernbrook had been developed | |into a fine park, ready: for the | | summer season. Red Cross drive was lagging far | | short of goal. Chandler W. Bluhdorn, soir] [in the B&B Hardware Store on | | Main Street, suffered a fatal heart | attack. | | Stevenson, Heart-wringing editorial by How- ard Risley about the death of the | | little girl whose drowning was front | | page news in last week’s issue, Iris | not quite three years] | old. | of Edward and Wally were much in | | the news, and the subject of a | stinging editorial by Rives Mat- | thews. ‘Poor Edward, indeed!” he | replied to folks who thought the | | king who had fallen down on his | job ought to be supported by his | | abandoned country. He's feeling no pain, said Rives. (Wally, thirty! years later, is 71, and jubilant over | [er first bid to Buckingham Palace | after half a lifetime of being os: | | tracized.) | Mr. and Mrs. John Miracle, Lake | | Street, observed their 60th anni- | versary. i (at Dallas Township. Borough. stu- |'dents attended Township exercises, | having no Queen of their own. Leh- | Rev. and Mrs. Francis Freeman | were entertained by Dallas Meth- | odist Episcopals on their return to | the church for their fifth year. Mrs. | Wesley Himmler was general chair- | man. | ¢ Rural Baseball League was revived | with eight teams, after a lapse of} three years. | It Happened 20 Years Ago Ad Cloudy skies cleared briefly to | permit crowning of the May Queen. Mary Winters was crowned at | Kingston Township; Betty Adams | | . | ‘man crowned Loraine Lukasavage. | Dallas Legionnaires took Me- | | Kendree. 5 to 3 before the game | | was called for rain. | Know-Your-Neighbor write-up on | | Gus Walters," former Sea- Bee, re- | cently established as a welder. | summer I # Community Band of Dr. Henry M. | | | | W. Jones. | fy i shall of the Legion Memorial Day | Parade. Lehman Schools were planning a music program, ne Fire Company scheduled its | | first. outdoor concert of the season | | for June 8 at the Band-Stand. (The | Band-Stand was on the spot where | a Gulf Gas station now stands.) | Howard Cosgrove was band director. | Married: Almenia Reese to Sheldon | Evans. Phyllis Elston to Jonathan | Jane Lucille Tucker to | Hobart C. Jeter. Paul Shaver was named mar- | Orange took Vernon 8-1 in Bi- | | County League. | | to sign up for | Club was sponsoring movement. It Happened 10 Years Ago Boys under fourteen were invited | baseball. Kiwanis represented in | Wilkes-Barre Fine Arts Fiesta opens ey THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1967 KEEPING POSTED May 10: BEARDED BEATNIKS ejected bodily from the Pentagon after 29 hours of sitting on the marble floor in front of the office of Chief of Staff. they’ll be back. Say WALLACE CASTING about for presidential bid. Third party? * * * May 11: SOVIET VESSEL nudges USS Destroyer Walker second day in a row in Japan Sea. liberate harrassment. Could be de- BRITAIN APPLIES for Common Market, Ireland also. shade mellower now. DeGaulle vetoed England in 1963, seems a SNOW STORM in midwest roaring eastward. SECOND NIGHT of violence at Jackson campus. MASSIVE SEARCH for three young boys, sup- posedly lost in cave complex at Hannibal. DUCHESS OF WINDSOR gets bid from Bucking- ham Palace. Crack in the ice. LUNAR ORBITER IV takes pix of moon’s south pole, disappointing quality, * * 12: MARTIN BOORMANN, Hitler's chief deputy, may be the man arrested in Guatamala. Persistent reports hve held that he is still living , a fugitive. * * * 13: JOHN MASEFIELD dies aged 88. POPE CELEBATES Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of Fatima in Portugal. One million pilgrims. SEARCH CONTINUES for missing boys. * * * May home-runs. FIERCE NEW BATTLE below the Leatherneck Square. 14: MICKY MANTLE 500 joins the immortals, DMZ, in * * * 15: GANGS RIOT in government. Hong Kong against British TARIFF BARRIERS eased at Geneva Conference, down 33%, of discussion. passes at midnight. 50 nations cooperate after five years Big step in world unity. Vote * * * May south of Saigon. 16: VIETCONG RAID on supposedly secure area BUDDHIST NUN immolates herself, praying to Buddha and Virgin Mary in the cause of peace, in downtown Saigon. Burning first in some months. DESPERATE FIGHTING to retain captured hills. * *. * May 17: FIVE THOUSAND MARINES besieged in Leatherneck Square, supplied by helicopters. Heavy mortar fire, many wounded. NOT BOORMAN, fingerprints do not match. Blow to prosecutors. FRANCE VOICES displeasure at DeGaulle in his bid to take over dictatorial powers, one-day gen- eral strike called, 16 ENGLAND DENIED million workers walk out. Common Market outlet, second time, DeGaulle’s work. RACIAL DISTURBANCE in Houston, Texas. HOPE FADES for boys supposedly Jost in lime- stone caves. At Bnnual Fiesta Back Mountain craftsmen will be force when tcday (May 18th) on public square. Jack Dungey, Dallas, a member of the exhibits committee for Coca- | | luschu Craftsmen who are co-ordi- nating Craft Activities at the Fiesta, | discusses the details of his minia- Bishop Hannan dedicated the new Bishop Hafey Memorial Science | Building at College Misericordia. |of fruit crop. | to leave home grounds at Lehman | for southern tour. | home in Carverton, dwellers escaped | in their night clothes, | burned. | many since the new Williamsport | Highway replaced the old winding ' | Huntsville route. ' Carolina, Airman Daniel R. Blaine, 1 Shavertown. Miss Myra Harding, 91, I native of Center Moreland. | tack. Mrs. Edna Jones, 66, formerly | Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph | Hagel, | Gay, 50th. | Married: C. Jayne Perrin to Robert | D. Montgomery. Shirley May to Earl TIMELY NOTE | LBJ spoke in that area, a note was | surreptitiously delivered i Orchardists were grimly awaiting frost, recalling the 1956 total loss Reithoffers Shows were preparing | Night fire destroyed the Reth one badly Another car over the bank at the dead-end near Whitesells, one of | Died: in a traffic accident in South John Crispell, 73, Beaumont, heart at- of Noxen. Howard E. Rinker, 67, Sweet Valley. 50th. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hummell. An editor friend of ours up in New Hampshire reports that when to the lectern. It was from Ladybird, and it read, “Knock it off.” i | ture spinning wheel chairman of the | replica with his wife, Dana, demonstrations committee. She will be among the craftsmen in Crafts lin Action from 1 to 5 p.m. daily | during the duration of the Fiesta. ! Other demonstrations will be given by Mrs. Kenneth Young, Dallas (Furniture Restoration and Decoration); Chair and Splinting, Rug Hooking and Pine Needle Craft by Louise Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nuss, Judy Dawe and Mrs. Howell, Lehman area. More than 40 different crafts | traditional and contemporary will be featured in the Crafts Exhibit. Craftsmen from the Back Moun- tain include: Mrs. J. B. Schooley, Shavertown (rag rug); Diltz, Shavertown (whittled birds): Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Simms, man, (wood candle sticks and tools, hooked rug); Jack Dungey, Dallas, the | Seat Rushing | all of the | Clark E. | Leh- | Bac Mountain Cobian Exhibit Starting Today (Spinning wheel and hutch cup- board miniatures); Janet Grosson, | Dallas, (weaving and ceramics); Betty Montgomery, Dallas, (stencil- ed silver chest); Herb Smith, Dallas | (stenciled box); Ann Wicks, Trucks- Naiomi Nuss, chair); Mrs. | ville (gilded mirror); | Lehman (stenciled (Helen) Paul Gross, (leathering and etch gold leaf on bellows); (country and stenciled trays); Syl- | via Hughes (document box); Mrs. | Joseph Banks, Trucksville, (gold leaf tray); Mrs. Bernard Banks, Jr., | Trucksville, (two painted velvet | Theorems); and Marge (decorated milk can). Cocaluschu Craftsmen was found- ed two years ago by interested crafts people in Luzerne, Carbon, Columbia and Schuylkill Counties. | It participates in the Fine Arts | | Fiesta this year for the first time ! | by co-ordinating all craft activities. | Of the more than 50 members in | | Luzerne County, nearly half reside | | in the Back Mountain area. Mrs. Robert Crosson serves as chairman. Mrs. Kenneth Young, | Mrs. Leroy Brown, Mrs. Ray Turn- er, Mrs. Walter Bronson, and Mrs. | Paul Gross, serve on the Luzerne | County Planning Committee. EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED | Saturday, 9:30 - Dr. E. John Daily Optometrist 1001 S. Main Street Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hours: Daily 9:30 - 5; Mon. TELEPHONE 825-7354 { CONTACT TENS SPECIALIST - Thurs. 9:30 - 8 p.m. 3 p.m. | Shavertown, Marilyn Maslow, Dallas, | Edwards PFC LARRY E. WOLFE Pfc. Larry Wolfe, son of Mr. and | | Mrs. Emery R. Wolfe, Hunlock | {Creek RD 1, has been promoted | | to Specialist 4th Class while sore) ing with the 573 Tran. Det. 145th Aviation Battalion at Bein Hoa AFB in Vietnam. He in the | is af mechanic on the UH-1D helicopter. | | Specialist Wolfe graduated from | pake-Lehman High School in 1958. | He was on the baseball team, and {a member of Blue Ridge Chapter FFA. Previous to entering the service | ‘he had been employed by Natona | | Mills for. six years. He took basic training at Fort | Jackson, S. \C. An expert marks- man on the rifle range, he was tied for second place in his battalion | | with two other boys from this im- | | mediate area, | Dick Michael. Before shipping out for Vietnam Tom Mahoney and | October 28; he spent fourteen weeks | | at Fort Eustis, school. Va., Services Friday For Russell Creveling Russell H. Creveling, Benton RD will be buried tomorrow in Moss- ville Cemetery, Rev. William Price, pastor of Town Hill Methodist Church conducting services at. 21 | from ‘the Bronson Funeral Home. | | | | | in a special | { Friends may call this evening, 7 | tog. | Mr. Creveling, 81, died Tuesday | night at Bloomsburg Hospital. ling of Fairmount Township. | served for a time as school director, and was-a lumberman. two years ago. Mr. Creveling made his home with | for sister-in-law, Mrs. John Crevel- | ing. | It was a pioneer family which set- | ted here in Revolutionary times, | | extremely closely-knit. | In addition to the sister-in-law, | nieces and nephews survive. Literary Program Members of the Library Book A sister Amanda Creveling died He | was the last of nine children born ! | to Samuel and Albina Moore Crevel- | He | | | | | | Cooper of High Point Acres is mak- | ing history with his black and white | | photographs. | Club met in Back Mountain Memori- | al Library Annex on Monday to | hear a program on miscarriage of | justice given by Mrs. Lester Shapiro | | of Kingston. Mrs. Shapiro reviewed | two books, one factual, one fiction, | dealing with the same event. Mrs. | Ornan Lamb presided. | Members of the hostess commit- were Mrs. Edward Shuman, Mrs. | Granville Miller, Mrs. Stanley Cook, | { and Mrs. W. J. Elston. Mrs. Ray Flick and Mrs. | Groft poured at a tea-table gay | { with spring flowers and tall tapers. | Present in addition to those al- | ready listed were Mesdames A. G. | | with his wife and children last Oc- | tee headed by Mrs. William Cutten tober, ‘he left behind him an en-| viable place in camera circles. | Rutherford, A. D. Hutchison, Charles | | Mastin Davern, Fred B. Howell, { Burger, Archer Mohr, Earl Phillips, | | Society of America, | Thomas E. Heffernan, Mitchell Jenk- | ins, George Montgomery, | O'Malia, James I. Alexander, | Williard G. Seaman. John and Jacqueline Yaple Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Yaple, Jr. | Stroudsburg, announce the birth of a daughter at General May 11. Jacqueline weighed in at eight and a half pounds. She has a sister Debbie Lynn, three and a half years old. | Mrs. Yaple is the former Bar- {bara Okrasinski, daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Anthony Okrasinski of Kingston. Mr. Yaple is son of Mr. | and Mrs. John Q. Yaple, Goss Manor, | Dallas. Hospital, | | ed librarians from Kingston, Scran- | | ton, Dallas, Montrose, West Pittston | of the card catalog, the reference and Nanticoke, as well as Wilkes- | books and the guide to periodical Barre. four 18x20 pictures at the Camera | City Camera Club, when the group | met at the Carousel Motel on East | | End Boulevard. | time that members had viewed his | | work. | the Year award. Vern | at Chicago International Exhibition | and at Chicago Museum of Science | and Industry; at the Racine, Wiscon- | sin, Camera Club at the Evergreen Park Art Show, and at the Tribune Building in Chicago. a first place. ‘Workshop At Osterhout ‘On Children’s Books tain Memorial Library, is | in-service training Wednesday after- noons at the Osterhout Library. Theresa Lyons, head of the Child- ren’c ‘Department at Osterhont. 675-1787 You are invited 5 our OPEN HOUSE from Saturday, May 20th until Saturday, May 2Tth DAILY from 2 P.M. until 4 P.M. See our NEW ADDITION that will accommodate 8 Semi-Private Patients plus 1 Private Patient. COLONIAL DECOR REGISTERED NURSES ON DUTY 24 HRS. A DAY MAPLE HILL NURSING HOME Route (18 DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— Pillar To Post... i by HIX The ducks like it, the grass likes it, but most of us are beginning to think back to that nice old preacher whose flock had prayed earnestly for rain, and had been rewarded beyond any normal ex- pectation. The preacher mounted the pulpit to give thanks for the answer to prayer. Opening one eye, he viewed the water seeping under the door, and looked upon his parishioners, dripping after their dash from streaming buggy to the vestibule. He said that he was grateful, that his people were grateful that such notice had been taken of their plea for rain. Then he added, in heartfelt tones, We are all beginning to think that this entire month of May, to date, is ridiculous. We are thankful that the dam is overflowing, that the lake is the highest it has been in years, that there has been enough of a torrent to scour Toby's Creek and other noxious little waterways, that the water table is rising day by day after seven years of drought, but we still say that we prefer moderation in all things. And this May is just plain saturated. We'll think back on it with regret, come August and the season for parched lawns and drooping shrubbery, but at this point we could use a little sunshine. Maybe the sky is getting the rain out of its system, to insure fair weather for the Fiesta down in the Valley, and for the Library Auction out here in the Back Mountain. In the meantime, we're all developing webbed feet, and the rain gear is getting the best workout it's had in years. A small kindergartner voiced the hopeful suggestion, “Well, if we can’t eat on the picnic tables, couldn't we eat under them?” No need for letting the hose dribble into the excavation in the rock ledge that serves as a birdbath. Nature is taking over, and the birds are up to their shins in fresh rainwater. And there's nothing like rainwater for a shampoo. The water out here in the Back Mountain is loaded with whatever it is that makes water hard instead of soft. Catching the rainwater in a suitable container is the problem. Nobody has a rainbarrel any more, and cisterns went out of style along with the bustle and the nutmeg grater. It used to be that if you wasted rainwater you got span if you were the right age to get spanked. If you wanted to waste water, you pushed your way through the high grass in the pasture to the spring, where blue clay invited you to sit down on the | verge and dig out small pieces for molding into turtles and elephan and rabbits. Water was precious. the cistern. : No automatic washers to sluice it away in lavish quantities. Nobody has any idea of the amount of water that is wasted nowadays. Civilization presupposes cleanliness, and cleanliness pre- supposes a water supply that is taken completely for granted, just as electricity is taken for granted, and door-to-door delivery of mail, gasoline stations handily placed for our convenience. If the electric current were off for more than an hour or so, we would all be in real trouble, for out here in the Back Mountain a great many of us are dependent upon our own automatic submersi- ble pumps to provide us with the water we require for even the most elementary sanitation. It looks now as if our wells were going to provide us with plenty of water this season. The basement floor is showing & running tide that never appears unless the water table is brimming. The water- bearing rock strata release four inches of water at the front of the cellar, and take it back again at the rear. Maybe we could promote a shazipen right down there. You baked them in the sun after they were shaped. It required a pitcher pump to draw it from Newcomer To Area, R. L. Cooper. ‘Makes Camera History With Pix Camera Club and the Chicago Azea A newcomer to the area, R. L.| Camera Association. Mr. room work. He frequently Last Tuesday he exhibited twenty | lectures, showing slides. It was the first] Moving to Dallas from Chicago | gloss on a colored face. possible. In 1965 he took. the Print of | He has shown by for Royer Foundry in Kingston. Dallas schools: | Dallas Senior High School. He belongs to the Photographic where he took During his residence Makes Tour Of Library in Chicago he belonged to the Bigee i Mr. | dents Back Mountain Memorial last week. Mrs. Martin Davern, Back Moun-| Mrs. taking | ular borrowers” after their tion to seventh grade. The workship on selection and use of children’s books has attract- | | literature. Moderating the workship is Miss | | edgeable questions. Homelike Atmosphere LEHMAN HIGHWAY —JEAN and RONALD THOMPSON “But Lord, this is ridiouloall Cooper does “his own dark- gives His subjects vary from portraits to landscapes and close-up studies of light and shadow. His wife says that he is particularly enamored of bringing out the character of | elderly people, and of capturing the His family enjoys going with him on photographic vacations whenever Photography is a rewarding hob- the chief engineer of the There are two children, both in Richard at Junior High, and D’'Anne, a sophomore, at Westmoreland 6th Grighe Harding's sixth grade stu- from Westmoreland Grade School enjoyed a field trip to the Library Frances Rinehart, assistant librarian, conducted the young peo- ple on a tour of the main building where, hopefully, they will be reg- : promo- Mrs. Rinehart explained the use The boys and girls were very en- | thusiastic and asked many knowl- or iy | SR A Bean GR( field cons Pens SWI i
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