rg LECTION 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 110 Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association 0: V2 Member National Editorial Association ° Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Editor and Publisher .......... 5... 5% Myra Z. RISLEY Assoeiate Bditor . ................. Mgrs. T.M.B. Hicks Social Editor. .....5 00 on Mrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON @Babloid Editor. ............... 0. CATHERINE GILBERT Advertising Manager Louise MARKks Editorially Speaking REFLECTION FOR MEMORIAL DAY HiGHWAY DEATHS = rs * We have come once again to that time of year when Americans pause to honor the memory of those who have given that last full measure of devotion on battlefields at home and abroad. As Abraham Lincoln said: “Tt is fit- ting and proper that we do this.” ~ As we pay our respects to the nation’s war dead, it also is fitting that we turn our thoughts to the peace for which we all pray. It is fitting, too, to reflect on life —not death—and on ways in which life may be preserved. No more fitting time than Memorial Day could be found for this reflection, for the holiday signals the be- ginning of the summer highway carnage. In a year’s time more people are killed on our highways than died in com- bat in all of World War I. Automobiles are’ safer today than they have ever been. So too, are the highways over which we travel. That leaves the problem squarely on the shoulders of the third element in any design for greater highway safety— the person behind the wheel. One of the great freedoms we Americans share is the right to travel in our country when and where we please. It is a freedom to be preserved for all of us. Let’s not abuse it. | Maybe You Won't Win So, you're going to take the family on a vacation trip over Memorial Day weekend. After all this rain, the weather ought to be fine. Which means that everything with four wheels or two wheels will be on the road, getting there fast, dashing in and out of traffic, intent on wresting one more: spot of highway from the jaws of death. : Probably you'll be doing the same thing, fuming along behind a truck on a hill, growing more and more irritated as it shifts into low, and finally being seized with that irresistible impulse to forge ahead just below the crest of the long hill. There’s nothing coming. There you are, accelerating like mad and in the wrong lane, and there, coming over the crest, is sudden death. Not just death for you, but death for the people in the other car. You swerve in ahead of the truck, with inches to spare. as the other driver takes the shoulder of the road. This time, you are lucky. But now, you are so nervous over the miraculous escape, that your sense of timing is off. There is another hill, and another slow-moving truck. Maybe you’ll win again. And maybe you won't. You can’t figure on the other guy swinging out onto the shoulder. His reaction time might be just a little too slow. Maybe he’s had a near-accident, too. The Dallas Post does not need any head-on crashes to make news on the front page. COLLEGE MISERICORDIA OFFERS Summer Music Session for High School Students JUNE 26 fo AUGUST I, 1967 $30.00 Open to talented high school students who have completed their Junior year and who desire to major in Music. It should be possible, after two successful summer sessions to enter college with an advanced standing in Theory. Theory Course Apply to: The Director, Department of Music College Misericordia 18612 Dallas, Pennsylvania A) Vo vert the highway. Only | Yesterday 30 Years Ago This was an issue written and edited by members of the Dallas Woman's Club, as proved by a three-column cut at the top of the front page. From left to right were shown Mrs. Karl Kuehn and Mrs. | John Yaple at the make-up desk; Mrs. Walter Hicks (no relation. to Hix) using the telephone; Mrs. G. K. Swartz beating the typewriter and Miss Beth Love, president. Not shown in the picture, but helpful in | assembling material, were Mrs. Mil- | | | | ford Shaver and Miss Leona Smith. | l of women, the return of Mrs: W. As might have been expected, the news leaned heavily toward recipes, a cooking school at the Himmler Theatre, congratulations to winners of honors in the world L. Tracy to her home in Trucks- ville after spending some five | months with her famcus son Lee | in Hollywood. \ Even Howard succumbed to the | | trend in home-making, typing eut | ! his favorite recipe for a midnight | | snack, which he explained as “we're | | | | | sure nobody ever thought of it be- | fore.” - (Shucks, Howard, that's | mock-oyster stew, as much a staple | in the early 1900's as cambric tea.) We quote: “The ingredients are | milk, butter, salt and pepper, a | book, and some crackers. The book ! | is essential.” We liked nis method: | i dipped | splattered it as he read with one | ' hand and ate with the other. | | as women posed for pix. { A EE A SAS lof everybody. ily records of the women cooperat- been made since that time. i | May Queen, Loretta Shonk Lady- | construction workers. “You ‘spill the milk into a pot and heat it gently until the surface! trembles with the fear that you | are going to burn it. Then you add | the butter, a big lump, and the | salt and pepper.” We don’t know | what he did with the bool, read it, it into the milk, or just Mrs. William Baker was named | the local woman of the greatest | service to her community. Forty-seven seniors at Kingston | Township were eligible for gradua- | tion. | Eleanor Kuukle was Queen of | TLE DALLAS POST, THUASDAY, MAY 25, the May at Dallas Township. Cere- | , monies postponed by rain. Mrs. Sawyer’s tips on gardening ! gave expert instructions on dahlias | and glads. | Full-page ad of big coal range |” with extra large galvanized ash- | pan. Much historical lore in that issue | of May 21, 1937, handed on in fam- | ing in publication. The plant was small thirty years ago, a tiny front room the office. Two additions have | Died: W. Herdman, Beaumont, Rev. Yiengst, former Noxen pastor. It Happened 20 Years Ago Dallas Bank approved Saturday closing for the summer. Dallas Borough graduating class numbered eighteen, Kingston Town- ship 51. : Sweet Valley was preparing for its biggest Memorial Day parade, Lehman firemen for the Fourth of July Horse-Show. Honor Roll at Fernbrook was to be dismantled, a photographic rep-| lica to be placed in Dallas Tcwnship high school. Stuff for the Library Auction June 7, was beginning to flood The Barn. Leo Niezgoda was leading batter for Trenton Giants. Married: Shirley Austin to Herbert | W. Jones. It Happened 10 Years Ago Clinton Ide was appearing in sum- mer stock at Williamsburg. Barbara Cheney was Township | in-Waiting. Kingston Township was out to catch speedsters. ‘Jackson Institution was using 300 Skirts were a modest shin-length A dog-poisoner was loose in the area, six dogs and two cats died. Pinecrest Avenue and Maplewood Heights the targets. Mill Street was still trying hard to stay one-way, with no entrance allowed toward Main Street from Habit died hard. Ted Poad was chairman of a 200- member ambulance fund drive for | Kingston Township. Atty. Robert Fleming was tain] ped for Memorial Day speaker in Dallas. Magazine Exchange Bill Moss has a magazine ex- | change going down at his place in Trucksville. Neighbors drop by with maga- zines, leave them on one of the thelves that Bill erected in his! garage, and help themselves to | Fatasises that other neighbors have | left. Anybody having current maga- zines destined for the trash man, | may hand them to Bill instead, for filing on his shelves for the use 1357 KEEP N S May 17: COMMANDER OF SS WALKER says he doubts if Communist ship nudged his vessel deliberately, currents were strong and traffic heavy. MASSIVE MOVEMENT, of troops in the Middle East. Jordan, Syria, Israel, and Egypt involved. HONG KONG experiences more anti-British riots. HOUSTON RACE RIOT at University simmers down. Release prisoners. * * * May 18: VICIOUSATTACK on Marines south of DMZ. Heavy mortar fire. Marines surrounded. ONE-DAY STRIKE in France ends, electric power comes back on, traffic moves, bakers bake, tele- phones ring. DeGaulle complacent, unperturbed. * * * May 19: LAND ,SEA AND AIR, US troops in DMZ, furi- ous fighting to neutralize the supposedly neutral zone. Villagers evacuated. MILK DISPUTE- again deprives Chicago house- wives of milk as deliveries cease. U.N. PEACE-KEEPING forces recalled from Israeli- Egyptian border, * oO H pip * * * May 20: UU THANT FLIES to Egypt to discuss situation with Nasser. All-out war awaits only one chance bullet. U.S. ASKS RUSSIA to help * * May 21: RIOTING IN HONG KONG continues. PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL expresses hopes that forces can be kept within its borders. BUDDHA'S BIRTHDAY truce violated within min- utes, but hostilities slacken a trifle for 24 hours. BRUSSELS DEPARTMENT STORE burns with great loss of life, an anti-American demonstration followine announcement of a special sale of U.S. cool off Egypt. * goods. Three separate fires set. Over 200 missing. ’ * * * May 22: ALL AMERICANS asked to leave Israel and the Near East. EGYPT BLOCKADING Red Sea Port at Agiba, Israel's only outlet to Indian Ocean. * * * May 23: DMZ LAID WASTE for 6-mile strip with bull- dozers, leaving no refuge. AFTERMATH IN BRUSSELS: 237 bodies already taken from ruins. crews still working to determine exact number of the dead. “HOLY WAR” about to start in the Near East. Egypt spoiling for a fight, Israel prepared. * k * May 24: SECURITY COUNCIL meets to discuss situation in Near East. Blockade of an international water- wav. the Red Sea, could be fatal. MAIN CAPITALS of the world working feverishly to contain situation. UNEASY TRUCE ends in Vietnam after 24-hour cease-fire in honor of Buddha's birthday. Truce violated 71 times. ; FORCES WITHDRAWING from southern section of DMZ. ; COST OF LIVING up again, milk prices increase. TR. If His Tour Of Duty Is Ending We are happy to send the Dallas Post free of charge and by first class mail, to boys in Vietnam. This is a project undertaken, so far as we know, by the Dallas Post alone, and by no other paper. We. are asking parents to cooperate: If your son’s year of service in Vietnam is about over, and you know he will he coming back to this country with- in a month, give the Dallas Post a call, so that his name may be taken from the mailing list without delay. - When you call us, after he gets home, his paper is still being sent, by sea or by air, and nobody is benefiting. It takes a week to get him off the list. If vou give us a month notice, he will get all the papers already on the way. Keystone Award | MRS. T. M. B. HICKS It was the message in a bottle | launched by Carolyn Edwards and | Darcy Rogers, that brought a sec- {ond place certificate to Hix in the | Keystone Contest staged annually ‘by Pennsylvanie Newspaper Associ- | | ation. | | contest, and mailed to headquarters. | It was entered under Feature! News Story, the clipping from the January 26 issue pasted on yellow | paper in the final moments of the | Awards were made on Saturday | | at the annual dinner at Nittany | | all over | gave the invocation which has be- | come a tradition of the affair, adopt- Lion Inn, where news writers from | Pennsylvania gather an- | nually for the PNPA convention. At the noon luncheon, sponsored by Pennsylvania Newswomen, Hix | ed as the Creed for Pennsylvania Newswomen ten years 2go. The Creed, published for the first | time in the Dallas Post: Father in Heaven: | Help us never to forget our solemn | | responsibility in writing for the | | Press. "» | we are dealing not only in events, Help us to bear ever in mind that | but in human souls. That a story, once in print, is out of our hands forever. That no humble retraction, no | | abject apology, can ever overtake | it or cancel it out. That character and reputation are | fragile things, withering in the blast | of ill-timed publicity. | Let us make a solemn pact with conscience that no innocent person shall be crucified by distortion of fart or by innuendo. | That no sorrowing family shall | find its burden increased by inept | | handling of a story. offering of human decency. | Valley Crest Welcomes That we never demean ourselves | or our profession by making a burnt Amen ‘Recreational Groups: | A solid vote of thanks goes to | the Wyoming Valley Newcomers | Club, of which Back Mountain New- | | comers are a branch. for the en- | | thusiastic work which they have | livered 176 birthday gifts, and at Papers. in spite of first-class postage, sink to the bottom of the mai] sacks, and are not delivered as quickly as letters. Friends Of The Library Friends of the Library is an or- ganization intended to promote in- | terest in the Back Mountain Library, and to augment funds for its. sup- | port. Dues are $1 per year, with no limit on escalation if desired. Any one of the librarians will be l'happy to enroll any resident. Being a Friend of the Library is not a prerequisite for borrowing books. The facilities are for every- body. But joining Friends of the Library STOCKS Members of the New York ‘makes a patron eligible to vote for board members at the annual meet- ing of the Library Agsociation in January, giving him a voice in it operation. ¢ The Library is free. But it takes money to run it. The Book Club is also a supple- mentary source of income for the Library. Its members finance pur- | chase of boks which are placed on special chelves. After; a certain length of time they are released for general circulation. — READ THE TRADING POST — MUTUAL FUMNBS call or write Henry H. your local Otto, Jr. Registered Representative for J. H. BROOKS & CO. 15 South Franklin Street Wilkes-Barre, Penna. Stock Exchange since 1905 PHONE 823-3131 or 675-1265 Established 1905 “SUMMER HOURS | Starting, Sunday, May 28 Wednesdays and Sundays — 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other Days — 8 a.m. fo 8 p.m. Puterbaugh’s Store Harveys Lake 2 | been doing at Valley Crest. Women have not only visited the ! patients at Valley Crest, but they it so that you and your family may | have staged fourteen Bingo parties, | stop frequently. That's the way to with se many as eighty patients in make sure they enjoy every minute | attendance uvon occasion, most of you make it possible for them to | spend in the great outdoors. them in wheelchairs. Newcomers have personally de- Christmas time they arranged a | party, supplying each patient with | a svecially selected gift. Mrs. Helen L. Judge. Director of: Volunteer Service at Valley Crest. | acks that anybody who is interested | in giving part of her time to a | 2 DALLAS, PLNNSYLVANIA | From— Pillar To Post... by HIX Look to the left of this column to get a load of what Hix really looks like when she gets into her glad-rags instead of slopping around in a tired blue skirt and sweater with sneakers at the South Pole and a Mark Twain hairdo at the top. That’s the pix that is making the rounds on the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce brochure, doubtless as representing the Senior Citizens of the Wyoming Valley who are still able to shake a leg. Being a Senior Citizen can get to be a nuisance. To everybody. It’s become increasingly a nuisance over the past ten years, when the Pennsylvania Newshens go into a huddle each spring and confer in undertones: $ “Well, she'll probably feel neglected if we don’t ask her to giv the invocation at the luncheon. We wouldn't like to hurt her feelings. And after all, she wrote it.” So the annual invitation to sit at the head table and pontificate is extended, and Hix drives down to State College (poddon us, Penn- sylvania State University) to attend the luncheon at Nittany Lion Inn, do her stuff over the public address system, and subside into her chair to tackle the annual salad. Let's face it tripping over your teeth in public gets more trying as the years go flitting by. Mrs. Ralph Weatherly, that lovely lady from out Mount Zion way, has a delightful bit of doggerel which she quotes upon occasion: My glasses just suit me, My dentures fit fine, My Girdle upholds me, But I DO miss my mind. This, coming from Mrs. Weatherly, gives you as much of a jolt as if a humming bird had barked, but it certainly hits the target. So, biz of putting on the glad rags, including heels, and making that round trip, rising for one brief moment, subsiding thankfully, going into a coma while the waitresses circulate, flagging the one who looks as if she carried the most productive coffee-pot, eating doggedly through the menu with the avowed intention of getting my money's worth, and then making a glad escape into the cold spring sunshine. Getting into the Volkswagen in heels is a problem, much simpler in sneakers. That extra three inches of height leads to a bump on the top of the head. is to crouch and pull it around you. There must be some way of skirting Bellefonte. Coming down, the car followed the accustomed route through The best way of getting into a Volare yy Lewisburg without a guiding hand, but going back by the alternatifgy route through Williamsport presented difficulties. How do you get to Route 220 from State College? A spot of map reading would have helped. There must have been a turn.off somewhere. Scott says it’s shorter and quicker by Williamsport, so he’s briefed his car and it flies over the mountain instead of through Bellefonte. I got lost in Bellefonte, improbable as that might seem, but I had a good triple view of the Post Office and of a number of filling stations, not to mention a front yard where a man was clipping a hedge. : I don’t mind admitting I'm lost. This is something which is difficult for a man to understand. A man will go miles out of his way to avoid .asking for a direction. He is supposed to know the way, and he will go to any length to save face. Not Hix. ; Hix can look so helpless it is completely unbelievable, It's a good act, and it gets results. : Here is that ‘poor little old lady, trustful eyes begging for assis- tance, hands trembling with nervousness, voice quavering. . They fall for it every time. : They leapiigallantly into a car and pilot the poor old dear out of Bellefonte, and she ‘doesn’t speed up until she is around the next curve. Under the circumstances, it wouldn't be tactful. Plan Frequent Stops worthwhile project which will | happiness. to the shut-ins, get in furniture. Taking a long vacation trip? Plan Public To June Auction Proceeds from the spring auctg of the Harding Fire Company = house and equipment. ‘Harding Firemen Inviteg, i 1 | go toward maintenance of the fire | A number of antlques are on bring hand, also new goods and used touch with her. Individuals or groups are always welcome as volunteers. The recreational program on the part of the Newcomers Club was | inaugurated early last. fall! grounds. | There is an adding machine and i . . . {a copying machine, T-V set, patio | eet. typewriter, dishes, glassware. Time, June 3, 2 p. m. Place, Harding Fire Company RLLEN GILBERT Insurance Rroker and Consultant “A Tax-Free Life Insurance Trust Estate for Your Family” is their best pro- tection against the problems created by infla- tion, and federal income and estate taxes. 288-2378 TIME: 12:30 P.M. wooden clothes cabinet. Other items too numerous to mention. OWNER: MARY WILLIAMSON 115 PARK STREET WEST PITTSTON, PENNA. / PUBLIC AUCTION Having sold my home, will sell at Public Auction the following: SATURDAY, MAY 27TH, 1967, at 115 PARK STREET, WEST PITTSTON, PA., Just off Exeter Ave. Kitchen set, kitchen stove, electric roaster and cabinet, utility stand, electric toaster, electric perculator, apartment gas stove, iron and ironing board, pots and pans, silverware, dishware, dining- rcom table and chairs, electric clock, gossip table, lamps, chair and ottoman, coffee table, end table, electric sweeper, rugs, magazine rack, rocking chairs, folding leaf table, draperies, bread box, placques, pictures, frames, chest of drawers, nightstand, mirror and hat rack, electric fans, bathroom scales, file cabinet, luggage, bed rack and light, books, window shelf for flowers, charcoal burner, garden hose, garden tools, carpenters large tool chest, ladders, metal cot, wringer washer, bedboards, vases, and Old ANTIQUES CHOTCH MAHOGANY SOFA, LOVE SEAT, OVAL MARBLE TOP TABLE, PLANK BOTTOM CHAIRS, BENTWOOD CHAIR, WASHSTAND, CHERRY CHEST OF DRAWERS, TIFFANY LAMP, PICTURE FRAMES, STEMWARE, VICTROLA AND RECORDS, OLD WASH BENCH, CRUET JUGS, CHINA, QUAD- RUPLATED SILVER SET, PRESS GLASS, AND TRUNKS. OLD HIGH CHAIR AND STROLLER COM- BINATION WITH IRON WHEEL. TERMS: CASH REPUBLICANS, Thanks A Million For Your Vote And Support For The Nomination For Justice of the Peace e In Lake Township. Let's Carry The Torch High To Victory In November. AUCTIONEER: BOB EARL DEMOCRATS ARTHUR J. ENGLER Shutters (Like new). 7 R. D. 3, WYOMING, PA. PHONE: 333-4179 IH RRS EN 2 ERR Bg SR NE 2. $5 = oq ds EP Pt Ps Q ot oD / RA ed # A : i ie Tu yg no M.Y Ths held met : The 1 wher pers comm Des the 3 of hb Pvt Chief spend paren A Corps High at Pa Comb S.C. phis, schoo! ) 1 | | : Leg Sea by tl the fi of Co. bish, Types Maint Piano tor, 1 ters, ©All of M at the Penns p.m., will 1 ular held 1967 Senio Spe at th Board or rej therec any 1 By of the Penns
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