RF LCN ee? 3 SECTION A — PAGE 2 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 Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Editor and Publisher Myra Z. RISLEY Associate Editor Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Social Editor -. ............. Mrs. DoroTEy B. ANDERSON Babloid Editor. ............000 CATHERINE GILBERT Advertising Manager Louise Marks A non-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania, 18612. “More Than A Newspaper, A Community Institution’ We will not be responsible for large “cuts.” If your organization wants to pick up its cuts, we will keep them for thirty days. We can give no assurance that announcements of plays, parties, rummage sales or any affair for raising money will appear in a — Editorially Speaking This Is The Way It Is Last week we published in Safety Valve a letter from a young Shavertown mother, asking why the community didn’t have recreational facilities for the young, and pos- ing a number of questions. It was not an anonymous letter. We know who wrote it, but we exercise the right of the editor to withold names if in our judgement it seems the part of wisdom. In this case, we expect to make an editorial reply, which in itself cancelled out the advisability of using a name. We will try to answer some of the questions, and we would invite comment. Signed comment. We do not pub- lish a letter unless we know who wrote it. We agree with the writer of the letter on certain points. But we have a few questions to pose, and here they are; along with some background material which is virgin territory to newcomers to the area. A recreational program is an expensive thing to main- tain. It requires trained people to run it, and trained peo- ple do not come for free. A playground must be super- vised. It is the law. You say that you have been living here for four years. You must know, then, that the YMCA folded for lack of sufficient support. One year ago. Did you contribute to it when it was begging for help, battling to stay alive? If you had lived here somewhat longer, you would also know that the Dallas School District had a thriving recreation summer program, which was cancelled out because of lack of sufficient funds. And if you had lived here for twenty-five years, you would know that a community recreation program has been on the drawing board time and again. So few people wanted it that it died aborning. The very fact that almost everybody in this area DOES have a back yard, and that there is no need for children to play in the streets, is one of the factors that ~ militates against a community recreation program. i There are swimming places easily at hand, there is’a Little League program, and within very easy driving dis- tance there are picnic areas such as Ricketts Glen. It is difficult to sell a comimunity on a recreation pro- gram when there is so much available without cost. The two movie theatres died some years ago. Their death coincided with the widespread sale of T-V sets. A movie house cannot function if it is showing a picture to fifteen cash customers. : What constructive suggestions do you have for com- munity recreation? Are you willing to appear before the school board to state your case? Are you prepared to offer a plan for financing? What school will your children attend? Would you be willing for your millage to rise in order to finance recreation? How much demand is there for a recreational pro gram? These are the questions which have to be answered by everybody. “Everybody” includes senior citizens living on lim- ited incomes as well as those people with children. Taxes, like rain, fall alike upon the just and the un- just. EE A Er rv. Working For A Goal We like to see communities taking off their jackets leaving the television to the baseball for a change, and doing a spot of genuine hard work in a public cause. It gave us a genuine thrill to find people hauling rocks and sand to make a beach out at Sunset, putting forth honest effort, working together in harmony, with one goal in sight: A better place for the community to relax. There is one thing certain: those folks who are doing the work are going to take a very dim view of vacationers who throw beer cans around on the new beach and leave their picnic debris on the sand for somebody else to clean up. With so many people engaged in making that beach, the chances are that it will be pretty well policed. A man who has given up his evenings and Saturdays to create a recreation spot, isn’t going to stand for litter- inghis brain-child and descrating the result of hard labor for the public good. PO Er ——" The Buck Stops Here We've always liked that sign which former President Harry Truman used to keep on his desk at the White House: “The buck stops here.” And we like another pithy expression which history credits to him, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” When we hear neople complaining about small things passing the buck, blaming others, we think about that short and pungent sign. Somebody has to stand and take it. We learned a valuable lession early in the game in the newspaper business, and from a young man in our own office Instead of making excuses, take the blame. It is cheaper in the long run, and it takes the wind out of the sails of the person on the other end of the line. Herb Dreher has probably forgotten that he once said, “I'm sure that was my fault, and I'll do something about it.” kL ~ THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 or Yesterday It Happened 30 Years Ago | New election code went into ef-| fect, and all voters had to register again. | Big question: was Dallas in the Sixth or the Seventh District? | J. Austin Snyder, principal of | Lehman Schools, took as his bride | [Diane Lizdas of Lake Silkworth. Anna Barber, 9, of: Noxen, frac- tured her skull when she plunged | from a 50-foot trestle, She was be- | lieved out of danger at General Hos- | | pital. Her stepfather, Wayne Hub- bell, was also in hospital, suffering | | from accident injuries some months | | earlier. : | The Pennamite War was recalled | by tales of the time when a mew | | State, Westmoreland, embracing | Northeastern Pennsylvania, almost | became a reality shortly after the | Revolutionary War. | Groups from the M. E. Churches | were staging a trial of drunken driving at Idetown and Lehman. | “Death at the Wheel” was a thriller- diller. The WPA project of constructing a sidewalk between Dallas and Fern- brook was dragging its heels. The project had been under way since the fall of 1936, and was nowhere near completed. Criticism was out- svnoken. ert Taylor. Martha Loren I. Berlew. Thomas J. Miers the subject of the biography. “~ You could get a hotel room, with bath yet, in New York for as little as $1.50 ver day, with a. weekly rate of $7. And at the A&P a rolled veal roast was 25 cents a pound, little neck clams 100 for 47 cents, big canteloupnes two for two bits. Butter was still two pounds for. 69 cents. 20 Years Ago Weather was up to ninety .for the first time that summer, and beaches at the lake were crowded. Chief of Police Fred Swanson’ ha a busy time. " An elderly woman was found in a ditch near Senator Sordoni’'s glass barn, suffering from shock and ex- posure overnight. Mrs. Mary Kopi-: A. Shotwell to | of Kunkle :was week’s capsule ter at the Lake had wandered away in the darkness and became con- | fused. When local effort= failed; the State Police were called in." Lady Luck was watching: over the woman who lost sixt-one dollar on Memorial Day at a tavern in Fernbrook, Mrs. Anna Kotchan of Achlev found her wallet missing the following morning, called the tavern to report and inquire. No results. Then, an anonymons vhone call informed her she would find $35 in a blue envelon= back of Herlinski's bar. Thi left $26 still missing but was a long step in the right direc- tion. : i A couple days later. a wrecked car yielded un a wallet containing | naners and identification, and Mrs. | Kotchan was again called on’ the phone by Margaret Czuleger, who received the wallet from Ernie Whipp. Mrs. Kotchan visited the Oliver showroom the following mor- ning and was given the wallet From various crannies in the bat-' tered leather, greenbacks ecnilled forth. Only one dollar of the sixty- one was missing when the final accounting was made. ja truck in Shavertown. and was | recovering from his injuries at | Nesbitt. ; | | James Hontz. Center Moreland, | wa~ killed at Camp LeJeure. The Marine was driving a fire truck to a five when the accident occured. Women of Rotarv were supplying wheelchairs to invalids. } Production at Natona was top start the following week. Machines worth half a million wera being: installed. Lehman Horse Show had sixty entries listed. | Merried: Elizabeth Jane Owens to Robert Stewart. Dorothy Huminik tn Charles Smith. Marv Elizabeth Morgan to Robert Robinson. 10 Years Ago David Kunkle graduated from Temple University, expected to serve two years in the Navy as a dentist. Cate of Heaven campaign workers | #ot a blessing from Father Richard | Frank. Large gifts had ‘already been | received. General chairman, James | Halpin. Joann Mekeel on Tiny Tim in the Lehman Horse Show had pix on front page. Two serious falls: Amos Oney from a scaffold, Gail Schneider, 5, from her bicycle. Paint Derby at Trucksville Fair, sponsored by Bill Moss. Doc Jordan headed Dallas Rotary; Jack Nothoff Lake Lions. Married: Marlyn Bernice Lundy to Hilbert C. Lehman. Died: Henry Blank, 55, Trucksville. Mrs. Viola Taggert, 68, Huntsville. William H. Butler, 65, Stull. Schoon- over infant. Howard Todd Jr: nephew of Hix, instantly killed in a highway ‘accident. Mrs. Clarence Leas, 60, Washington. Fred J. Mack, Married: Norman Garinger to Rob- nas of Luzerne, visiting her daugh- | Billy Farrell. 13, was struck by: 79, Goss aMnor, % THE DALLAS POST, TLURLDAY, JUL 2J, 1567 KEEPING POSTED June 21: BRITAIN CALLS FOR new peace-keeping force in the Near-East. RUSK AND GROMYKO meet at dinner, cau- tiously and diplomatically feel toward a meet- ing of LBJ and Kosygin, with strict adherence to protocol. Summit meeting seems in the wind. NASSER AND PODGORNI hold conference in in Cairo. Soviet promises to replace lost arma- ments. INFANTRY COMPANY wiped out by Viet Cong ambush. HEAVY EARTH TREMORS in Alaska. MISSOURI IN FLOOD, heavy rains continue in midwest. LBJ’S GRANDSON doing fine. POPE PAUL UPHOLDS celibacy of clergy. ISRAEL IN POWERFUL bargaining position despite growing feeling at UN that its war was out of order. Israel will hold out for a united Jerusalem, pledging free access to holy spots of all major religions. SUMMIT MEETING ASSURED. The site, half- way between New York and Washington Pin on map points to Glassboro, New Jersey. Glassboro, home of State College, goes into a tizzy. Home of president tapped for what may be the most portentous meeting in modern history. Mayor's wife has “nothing to wear.” June 23: KOSYGIN LEAVES NEW YORK for Glassboro, closely guarded. LBJ emplanes for Philly, and helicopter lift. Meeting occurs at 11 a.m. for two-hour discussion, extended to 5 hours, agree to meet again Sunday. LBJ FLIES TO LOS ANGELES for appoint- ment, extraordinary measures taken to insure his safety in face of announced demonstrations for peace. Rock-throwing outside place of Democratic dinner. WAR MATRIEL reported pouring into Egypt from Russia. MEREDITH MARCH on again where it broke off a year ago when Meredith was wounded. 80 PARATROOPERS KILLED, ambushed in June 22: June 24: Central Highlands. LBJ SEES GRANDCHIL, Kosygin visits Niagara Falls. June 25: SUMMIT TALKS resumed at Glassboro. De- Gaulle pouts, can’t believe it. KOSYGIN PRESS CONFERENCE in evening at U.N. Says nothing, in diplomatic gobbledygook. Poker face. LBJ and Kosygin to keep in touch. June 26: KOSYGIN IN CUBA seeing Castro. June 27: GROMYKO AND RUSK confer at dinner, dip- lomatically discuss Near-East, leave smiling for the cameramen. AT JERICHO, 2 Israeli pilots exchanged for 425 soldiers, a commentary on relative value. NATIONAL DEBT LIMIT raised, taxes in offing. U THANT DISCLAIMS idea that withdrawl of peace-keeping forces wrecipitated the war. CENSUS IN JERUSALEM, before annexation, KING HUSSEIN of Jordan at White House, asks aid for Jordan. June 28: This old hemlock tree was one of | Babe, Paul's old ox will vouch for Noxen way will vouch for that. the last to fall, to the saw, of the | that. lumber jack on the Stony Brook | job, up Ricketts way in 1909. It | these six or seven foot cross cut may not be as large as the tooth | saws; the cant hook that you see! the ‘right. I do not know the names pick Paul Bunion used to pick red | stuck in the log, was no puny tool tiger (ham) from his teeth with, to use either. Bill still it is no slouch of a bean pole. Safety Valve GREETINGS TO 1967 Augsburg, Germany June 3, 1967 To the Class of 1967: I wish to express my congratula- tions on your graduating, wishing all of you luck and success in onr © future. Pvt. Rehort W. Rurtenitis RA 11985800 It took muscle to pull one of Orville Wright is the jack on the McKenna up | | Cn. A. 2nd’ Bn 34th Infantry [| APO New York. N.Y. 09112 | Rditorial Neto: Alone with: the grest. |inos tn his high schol clacs in DAI [175 Bab wrota anothar lettew, ad- | Aren-od to Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Nalthenyp: “I'm stationed in Anochnrg. (Gone | many, with the 24th Infantry Di- i vieinn, | 4T ywonmld annveniate it if von wonld vead ant this 1i+4la note to “ha owadaatine clace of 1987 in tha Nallae Pant ma the bill, or send my cister the bill. “I have let her know about the favor 1 ack of you. “1 have heen very corrv since T have left Millag Seniay Hich., and T onlv wish there was anv wav I renld hava aradnated. I've learned. “I won'd apnreciate a renlv fram vou, on this. as soon as possible.” then if ven wll cowd SALUTE TO CV ARENCW I wish I could help you find Clar- once. The description you gave is identical of my Bozo., He was a stray who came to us 13 years ago when we lived in Carverton. Over two months ago we saw him go up irito the Pines, which was normal procedure, but he never came back. One of Bill Berti’'s men serched the place for him, with no success. We have been forced to conclude he was sick and knew it and found a hole or shelter under a rock into which he crawled. His collar with the license may be found someday. With a heartfelt salute to Clar- ence and Bozo. Susan Cassedy Wright. Hay Road RD 5, Shavertown. MEASLES PROGRAM Dear Mrs. Hicks: Just a short note to thank you for the effort which you and your staff extended in cooperation with the Luzerne County Measles Pro- gram. As you know,, the Pennsylvania Department of Health cooperated with the Luzerne County Medical Society on this program, and on be- half of the Department of Health, I wish to personally thank you for your help. Sincerely yours, Richard Goyne, M.D. Regional Medical Director The Last Of The Giants To Fall In The Heyday Of The Lumber Industry DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— 3 Pillar To Post... by Hix It was almost too reminiscent, that letter from Chelmsford Farms. It read: “The mother cat decided about ten days ago that it was time to teach her babies how to play with mice, and she headed for Colin's new baby mice. “We had books stacked sky-high on the aquarium, but nothing would deter that cat, and poor Colin arrived home from school several days in a row to find another baby mouse gone, books scattered Nd over his room, lamps knocked over, etc. . “He is good about keeping his door shut when he has babies in there, but noone else stops to think, and the. cat was given trance, inadvertently, more than once. : % “She also found the chameleons, and I found half of each one some time later.” fori Well, you have kids, you have baby mice and chameleons, and guinea pigs and pet rabbits, and dogs and cats. And it's a blessing if you don’t have white rats, which have a way of breeding ovenight, and a way of escaping from the into the cellar. We've had them all, so it seems perfectly logical that the treas- ures of the earth should be meted out to the offspring, in the same way and quantity in which they were meted out to us when the chil- dren were small. But those mice . . . ; It used to be spinning-mice away back in 1920, and the spin- ning mice lived, not in an aquarium, but in a large fish-bowl. Spin- ning mice are allergic to drafts. A fishbowl keeps off the draft. But it does nothing to keep off the cats. After you have taken a fishbowl of spinning mice down to Cape Cod for the summer, fed them tenderly on birdseed, watered them in a thimble to prevent their taking a header and drowning them- selves, and transported them back home again, with the fishbowl Crammed into a bulging Boston Bag, it is disheartening to find that a neighboring cat had done its duty and caught the tiny things. And not only caught them, but is saving them so that she can proudly brag about her prowess as a slayer of monsters. How that cat got into the kitchen is anybody's guess, but it is a fact that there was a slight tear in the screen door. It was a large cat, and the two mice were very small, probably an inch long apiece, including the tail. a Tom, who had carried the Boston Bag under protest, drop- kicked the cat through the slit in the screen door, but it was too late to save the mice. And spinning mice, in case you never met any, are fiendishly expensive. There used to be a pet shop on Bromfield Street that put a bowl of spinning mice in the window upon occasion, and the antics stopped traffic. Spinning mice can’t move in a straight line, they gyrate, turn- ing swiftly on their tails, chasing each other round and round the fishbowl, leaping over the shallow dish of bird seed, dipping their whiskers into the water, and subsiding side by side for a nap when én- rat cage worn out by such rough play. People, when first they hear of a spinning mouse, assume that the mouse spins a delicate web, and are mightily astonished when they come face to face with the reality. . Colin, though missing his mice, may congratulate himself that the victims were not spinning mice. tidy piece of change if they had And his mother may also do a bit of congratulating. He'd be out of pocket a right been the spinning variety. : For if Colin had been in the business of raising white rats, they'd have escaped by now, and the neighborhood would be seeing. things, probably swearing off, and A white rat staring you down is something which isn’t easy to take. It has red eyes which gleam in the dark. Most kids go through the white mouse and white rat stage. It doesn’t last too long after the cage-cleaning detail begins to wea thin. or not. carrying things a little too far. Kids have to have pets, whether they upset the family touting. A kid brought up without pets is only half a kid. But that touch about the half of a chameleon . . . That, we feel, is Still, our own kids used to raise turtles from the egg, and they were always bringing in garter snakes which had tangled with the lawn-mower, expecting to have them stitched up and restored to their native heath. I've never really fallen in love with snakes, no matter how harmless. But mice, white or spinning, sizes. | Dummy Douglas took the picture. left. Bill Crocker is the one on | of the four men inbetween. | George W. Buckingham Elizabeth Lee Farr Dies In Canada Mr. and Mrs. Richard Farr, Dallas, announce the birth of a baby girl June 16 at Nesbitt Hospital. Eliza- beth Lee weighed in at a husky eight pounds, nine ounces. There is another child, two-year old Steven | Kenneth Farr. One week later, June 23, Eliza- beth Lee had a cousin, equally husky born to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Farr, formerly of Dallas, now of New Car- rolton, Md. John weighed eight pounds, six ounces at birth. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Some lucky soul bought a piano | she needed, advertised in last week's Dallas Post, and another lucky soul put the price in her wal- let. Buyer said the piano had a love- ly tone, seller said she was glad somebody could use it, she no longer had room for it. ALL KINDS OF CARDS ACCORDING TO YOUR "SPECIFICATIONS On Fishing Trip | William F. Phillips, | RD 4, suffered a fatal heart attack | Friday morning while on a fish- ing trip to Lyndhurst, Ontario, dy- | ing in the General Hospital at King- | ston, Ont. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, | his father the late William Phil- lips. For 22 years he was employed Stanley Farr | as a machinist by Hess Goldsmith. | sort of a germ while travelling in | Since 1960 he was proprietor of | Bill Phillips Town Tavern in Dallas. | He was a member of Gate of {Heaven Church. Surviving, besides his mother are children, William J., Wilkes-Barre; | Francis D., Easton; James J., Fair- | less Hills, Pa.; Bérnard J., Stockton; N.J.; Paul F., Dallas; Mrs. Ignatius | Hozempa, Dallas; brothers and sis- | ters, Mrs. Thomas Delmore, Mrs. | Paul Stoltz, Mrs. Ziba Hagen, Ed- |ward and Harold, all of Wilkes- | Barre; 12 grandchildren. Services from the Disque Fu- neral Home Tuesday morning were fer, and Edward Thompson. 59, Dallas | Dr. Tuthill Is Back From Germany, But In Hospital | Back Mountain people who knew | Dr. Ruth Tuthill when she was | pathologist at General Hospital, will | be distressed to know that when | she came back from Germany and | Russia a few days ago, she was | admitted to Overlook Hospital in { Summit, N.J. | She apparently picked up some | Russia after winding up her season’s | work at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, ad became increasingly [ill on the way across the Atlantic [by boat. Her address is Room 728, Over- look Hospital, Summit, N.J. 07901. followed by a Mass of Requiem at Gate of Heaven Church. Father Flynn celebrant. Organist was Stan- ley Golias, soloist Paul Williams. Pallbearers were Walter Weir, Robert Lauderbaugh, Aloysius Piejanski, Carl Kepler, Alvin Shaf- more than he shuts in. they're pretty cute in those small Summer Is Flving-Saucer Season Catch Up On UFO At Your Library Tt is summer again, and from nll points of the Commonwealth come reports of flyer saucer sightings. Are flying saucers real or im- agined? Are they interplanetary, inhabited by little green men? Are they a secret government project? Whose government ? Sarvires Today For Harold John Borten Services for Harold Borton, Har- veys Lake, are scheduled for this morning at 9 from the Dicoue Fu- neral Home. A Mass of Reauiem wil ha celebrated at 9:30 at Gate of Heaven Church. followed ' by burial at Mt. Olivet. Native of Athens, Pa.. and edu- cated in. the public schools there. he was emploved for 42 years by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. retir-- ing ten years ago from his position as station master at Dallas. "He died. aged 74. Tuesday mor- ning at Mercv Hospital. where he had been admitted five days earlier. He was a familar figure to Back Mountain residents, seated at the desk of the station, or overseeing a shipment of freight. It was possi- ble, during Mr. Borton’s incum- bency, to send Railway Express packages direct from the central Dallas station. For the last 39 years, Mr. Bor- ton had lived at Harveys Lake. He was a communicant of Gate of Heaven Church. His wife Alice died in 1965. He leaves these children: John, East Hartford, Conn.: James. Dal- las: Mrs. John Haloin, Hallstead; William, Harveys Lake: Mrs. Alex- ander Mahoney, Dallas; Joseph Shavertown; twenty-one grandchil- dren, ANCIENT PROVERB He who builds a wall shuts out | | not even the «+aff at the Back Mo tnin Memorial Library ean answer. Flving saucers have become w | of the earth’ec biocoest mysterinag ary "even Sherlock Homes would have | admitted that the nhenomena of the ‘U.F.O’s is more than elementary. UFO. (Unidentified Flyine Ob- ject) has bernme 3 more customary term than “flving sancer” recently, since many nheervers have described objects as being shaved more like cigars than saucers. Somehow the term “flvine cigar” doesn’t seem verv satisfying to most people. Whether you are a believer or not. one cannot heln but be fasci- nated hv reported sightines and the possibilities that the existence of such objects suggests. And although your library can- not provide answers, it can provide mianv books and magazine articles which will pique the imagination. According to the New Y Times. one of the most-read books in Washington, D C.. last vear wag “Flying Sancers—Serions Business”. This book lists hundreds of renorted sightings including several in Penn- sylvania and goes on to claim that sajicers are causing our electrical blackouts. There are numerous other books pro and con on the subiect, in cluding “The Interrinted Jonrney” bv John G. Fuller. “Flying Sancers From Outer Space’ bv Donald Key- hoe. “The World of Flvine Saucers’ bv Donald Menzel and Lyle Bovd and “Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force” hv Lawrence Tacker. Most peovle compelled to write on the subiect of answers are cer- tein that the vehicles are inter- planetary. Thev tell vou all von have to do is to watch and wait. And if you do ‘your watching near high voltage power lines. you won't have to wait very long. The These are a few of the oe | ww Or so they say. : by Mrs. Martin Davern
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