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, 15¢. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations witla, Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association <Q ‘° Member National Editorial Association © E Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. *euiast fditor and Publisher ...........\ uu. Myra Z. RisLEY Associate Bditor i... .n sivas Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks Social Editor ~."........... Mgrs. DoroTi:y B. ANDERSON Tabloid Editor... ...........00. ids CATHERINE GILBERT Advertising Manager ...........nii.. Lourse MARks We will not be responsible for large “cuts.” If your organization wants to pick up its cuts, we will keep them for thirty days. Single copies at a rate of 10c Thursday morning at the follow- ing newstands: Dallas — Town House Restaurant, Daring's Market, Bill Davis Market; Shavertown — Evans Drug Store, Hall's Drug Store; Trucksville — Cairns Store, Trucksville Pharmacy; Luzerne— Novak's Confectionary; Beaumont — Stone's Grocery; Idetown— Cave’s Market; Harveys Lake — Javers Store, Kocher's Store; Sweet Valley — Adam’s Grocery; Lehman — Stolarick’s Store; Noxen — Scouten’s Store; Shawaneses — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern- Editorially Speaking A Laurel Wreath For Harry Harry Lefko deserves a laurel wreath for his mans ning of the Library Auction. It was an especially important Auction, this Twenty- first, for it marked the coming of age of ‘an institution which has flourished from the very beginning astonishing everybody by its success twenty-one years ago, and its continuing and growing success over the year. Many organizations have adopted the plan of an Auction to raise money, but the Library Auction remains THE auction of the summer months. Mr. Lefko was assisted by a ¢orps of dedicated workers, but it is upon the chairman of the Auction that the ultimate burden lies, and until the hammer descends for the final bid Saturday night, there is a terrific strain : on the man who has the prestige—and the headache— ~~ of the Auction chairmanship. La He has lived with it since the previous summer, | when he was tapped for the distinction. He has known that it would be his problem all during the preceding year, when he was co-chairman. ; But the burden falls upon him when one auction is successfully over, and he must assume responsibility. Auction chairmen reap a tremendous amount of criticism as well as praise. Anybody up there in the limelight is a target. ~ Let a bidder become dissatisfied with his purchase, let a name be left out of the paper, and the chairman gets the blame. There is this about a chairman, or about anybody else who must take responsibility—He must develop a hide like a crocodile, impervious to poisoned darts. Every chairman is up against this. Every chairman of every committee on the Auction has felt the sting of ill-timed and ill-adviséd remarks. ‘ Chairmen are accustomed to this. their stride. It’s human nature. It was a good job, Harry. fits snugly. The community owes it to you. ERR lA Ue ar No Gain Without Some Loss ey take it in e hope the laurel wreath We don’t like it any more than the parents of kinder- gartners and other small children. We would like to see ALL children transported, in those cases where highways or busy streets must be crossed. Take it up with your congressman. There are rules which are laid down by the State. If the school boards do not follow the rules, their reim- bursement is cut off. But too many people equate “No bus service for pupils living less than a mile and a half from the school,” with, “They're making those kids WALK!’ No school district is making children walk, All the districts say is that they cannot, within thé law, furnish transportation. The districts are delighted when parents bring their children in the family car. ; Ra When classes are relocated, as in the case of the kindergartens for the Dallas District which will be housed in the Dallas Methodist Church Educational Building, it works hardship on some families, eases the burden for others. There was practically a civil war when it was first suggested that Dallas Township erada school children should be accommodated in other buildings of the Union District. Tt devends a oreat deal upon whose ox is gored. We had neighborhood schools for years, easy of ac- cess. They had no plumbing. and thev were heated bv potbellied stoves. The entire student body was instructed by one overworked teacher. With the demand for more extensive education and better housing, the consolidated schools were born. Schools at a distance from the home, pose problems such as transportation and the abandonment of the dinner bucket for the hot cafeteria lunch. No gain without some loss, and the inevitable corol- lary, no loss without some gain. . C—O a —— ARE WE NUTS? Are we nuts? Why are we sending planes to the Congo and to other trouble spots in Africa, with highly expendable pilots aboard? Don’t we realize that the involvement in Vietnam started with our loan of 200 mechanics to service planes which we had sent to South Vietnam? Don’t we remember that ‘‘advisorv capacity” soon became generally understood to mean “Boys, we'll do the fightine?” What on earth have we lost in the Congo? Or in Nigeria? Must we police the globe? That is what the United Nations was supposed to do. a —— I I RO itthmscsossctissmmsiesins CLASSIFIED ADS COST LITTLE. GET RESULTS! WANT TO SELL IT? TRY THE TRADING POST Only Yesterday 30 Years Ago State ‘Senator Le, Mundy assured that the new Luzerne by-pass was definitely in the bag. Residents of the Back Mountain kept tongue in check. The By-pass had been shut- | tling back and forth so long that | it was worn out before it was even constructed. Under water for five minutes, a seven-year old Swoyersville child | was saved by artificial respiration at Harveys Lake. Elwood Davis, Pic- nic Grounds, saved the life of George | Sarnak, after Max Zapore of Nan- | ticoke dragged him from the water. | Local swimming team was in | strict training. Irving Roe, Elwood | Davis, and James Campbell were | to compete in The President's Cup | Race in Washington. Independent Republicansan-| nounced their slate: William Baker, John Jeter, and George Ayre were drafted for the three vacant posi- | tions on Dallas School Board. { Roger O. Patton, 34, poured gas on himself, and died in flames. | Noxen entertained an ace German | glider plane pilot, when Peter | Reidel’s sail-plane dropped in on | a failing air current. Trolley and car crash in Trucks- | ville injured seven people. Red | signal light was working to warn traffic, said the motorman. Said | he also blew his whistle in warning. | Driver of the car, 18-year old Helen Kutney of Wilkes-Barre had a frac- tured skull. She hit. the trolley head-on. { Atty. Pinola bought the old Yacht | Club at Harveys Lake, for remodel- | ling as a summer residence. Well, how wrong can we be? Amelia Earhart finally turned up! on the social page as missing, her | plane presumably downed in the | Pacific. Just a bit of delayed re- action, that’s all. And after that nice editorial, too. Ryman’s History of Dallas was running on the installment plan. Little neck clams were still hold- ing their own at 39 for a dollar, and large honeydew melons for two bits; pink salmon, two tall cans, 23 cents. It Happened 20 Years Ago Paul Hummell, low on gas, landed his small plane in a hayfield on the Weiss Farm. A Dallas engineer was to con- struct airfields in Turkey. Nelson Booth, with his family, planned to spend thirty months in Turkey. Children’s Camp above Noxen burned to the ground. Dr. J. Frank- | | tin Robinson said that plans would | be drawn and construction of a new building started in the spring. Alderson was planning its annual flower show. What has happened : to those flower shows? They used | to be features of the summer sea- | son. | Chain reaction: car knocked over | ewitch on LV railway. Switch re- { placed, wrong side up. Diesel en- gine climbed the switch and was partially derailed on the way to Splash Dam. Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company Community Band was planning its second concert for the year. David Kunkle, youngest band member, was to be featured in a saxophone solo. New manager at Country Club, | Richard J. Brace. Sand and gravel pit at Chase, property purchased from Prutzman, capacity 100 tons per hour. Irem Horse-Show attracted out of State horses and spectators. Political: Cl-arence Laidler, Stephen Davis, John Miles, Dallas Township school director race. Joe MacVeigh, president of Dal- | las Borough Council, urged adoption of a new zoning ordinance. Reunion: Gordon-Hughey. Wrislar- Brace. Ire. E. K. Scott. Wilson. Died: Ray Ackerman, 49, Shaver- town. Arthur Chamberlain, father of Floyd Chamberlain. Edith King, 74, Meeker. Hendrick Gregory, 68, Idetown. Mrs. Harold Rose, 34, Shavertown. It Happened 10 Years Ago Bob Hanson was adding eight more alleys to his bowling lanes. Another glider landed unexpect- edly, this time piloted by an in- dustrial architect from Michigan. landed in Eggletson’s hayfield in Vernon, narrowly missing the barn as it swooped out of the sky. Bumper crop of early apples. Prince of Peace Episcopal Church broke ground for addition to the parish house. Rev. McClelland was the rector. Alfred James, Sheldon Evans, and John Sheehan wdssisted. Gate of Heaven raised $106,000 for its new school. Edward J. Hall headed State Druggists. ! Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Garinger THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1967 KEEPIN July 12: BOMBERS POUND POSTED artillery positions in DMZ, may have crippled sites for launching of rockets. GENERAL WESTMORELAND in a quick visit to White House for preliminary talks with LBJ. WHITE REFUGEES from Congo fly to Athens. GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL again in Congo. Mercenaries leave two cities, hostages released, but more hostages said to be with retreating force. * * July 13: WESTMORELAND * CONFERS at length with LBJ, asks for more troops. Feeling is that Aus- tralia might be called upon for more help. NEWARK, N.J., continues to have racial trouble, developing into worst unemployment high. UNEASY ARMISTICE still exchanged across * * riots of the summer. Negro in Middle East sees shots the Suez Canal. * July 14: BRITISH TROOPS called out to quell Hong Kong riots. RUBBER WORKERS on strike in Akron. SHIPWORKERS STRIKE in Newport News has halted work on five nuclear submarines. NATIONAL GUARD called out in Newark. NATIONAL RAILWAY STRIKE looms. REBELLION SEEMS * * OVER in Congo. * July 15: JORDANIAN CABINET resigns. 11 DEAD IN NEWARK, including 10-year-old. Rain cools riot. TWO MORE ESCAPE from county prison. * * * July 16: RAILWAY STRIKE begins. NEWARK RIOTS sto SURVEYOR 4 hits * * July 17: FLORIDA PRISON p, flair in Plainfield. moon, but won't talk. * fire kills 37. Arson charged. UN OBSERVATION team at Suez Canal. CONGRESS ACTS to halt rail strike. BIAFRA being evacuated by whites. * * * mid-70’s. LBJ APPOINTS 5-ma dispute. SCIENTIST give up * * July 19: FIRE AND RIOTS SHAFER ADMINISTR tension to clothing, re It's those Objects again. This time, it’s a letter from Mrs. Ronald Dobrowolski in Hawaii, en- closed in a letter to her mother, Mrs. E. Mendelsohn, 103 Shaver Avenue, Shavertown: | “Editor of the Dallas Post: | “My mother sent me an article about the recent air phenomenon, which appeared in the Dallas Post. “The Air Force has a special project devoted to the subject of flying saucers. “Project Blue Book is headed by a Major in the Air Force, who has a staff working on the project. I am sending the information to you. “Sincerely, Mrs. Ronald Dobro- wolski.” There have been so many sight- | ings of UFO that official notice has Unidentified = Flying | been taken for more years than { most people suspect. The staff in the Air Force is headed by Major Hector Quintanilla | Jr., who is aided by Lt. William | A. Marley Jr; S/Sgt Harold T. Jones, and two office personnel: In an article recently published two opposing points of view are quoted. Dr Leo Sprinkle, professor of | psvcholoev at University of Wyo- ming. holds that we are being sur- veved from apace. Dr. Richard Youtz, chairman of psycholooy department at Barnard, savs UFOs are after-images from bricht lights or strayed weather ballons. | Evervbody experiences after im- | ages when closing the eyes for a moment after looking at a lighted obiect. If you have been looking at | red. you will see the object as green, the complement of red. What do you do when you see a flving saucer? i The article advises, “Use vour | common sense. Think about it fo# awhile. You will probably shortly realize that what you saw has a rational explanation.” | “BUT,” the article continues, “if you are convinced that you have seen an Unidentified Flying Object. | you may report it to your nearest | United States Airforce Base. Each | base has at least one investigator | assigned to UFO's.” Last year a fireball streaked across the sky. It was seen all up and down the Atlantic Coast. Yet people in this Back Mountain area were convinced that it had plunged to earth just over the ALLEN GILBERT Insurance Broker and Consultant “A Tax-Free Life Insurance ~ Trust Estate for took over the Deater store at the Lake. : Died: Mrs. Bertha Shultz, 85, Dallas. Mrs. Emily Rhodes, 61, Harveys Lake. Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Olin Gor- don, 67th. Married: Carolyn Jeanette Davis to Floyd Rayborn. Jessie Carey to War- ren Fowler. Iris May to Ellis Weeks, Your Family” is their best pro- tection against the problems created by infla- tion, and federal income and estate taxes, It's Those Flyina Saucers Again, They're Still A Prime Mystery July 18: BRITAIN PLANS withdrawal from S-E. Asia by n conciliation panel in rail N. J. RIOT toll, 27 dead. on Surveyor 4. * in Erie, Pa., Cairo, Ill ATION pushes sales tax ex- staurant meals over a dime. VIETNAM WAR continues. mountain, or in Harveys Lake, or in a neighbor's hayfield. The fact of the matter is that it was a meteor doomed to flaming dé#ith, but sq high in the sky that its: flight could be followed for minutes. It is a matter of relativity. Tt is impossible to judge size unless {vou have a basis of comparison, and the same applies to speed. A car at highway speed seems t, go much faster in the eyes of a pedestrian than it does in the eves of a driver in the same stream of traffic. A train crossing a vast prairie, viewed from a station twenty miles away, seems to crawl. though it is [rocketing along at 80 miles per | hour. People accustomed to the vast | reaches of the West take this into account. In the days when steam | engines sent up vlumes of smoke, men who expected to catch the train had another cup of coffee at home before starting for the station. There | though the! was plenty - of time, smoke was clearly visible. How big is the full moon when | it rises behind the trees? Are you comparing its size with the size of the trees, or are you thinking of it as hanging in your kitchen window like a shadowed orange ? Safety Valve THANKS FROM AUXILIARY To The Editor of The Dallas Post, The Auxiliary of Nesbitt Memorial | Hospital were very well pleased with | the generous coverage you allowed | them for the 6th Annual Festival, | June 14. | We received many calls from | subscribers and copies of the item, | which was very much appreciated. | Thank you again for your co- | operation which aided in bringing [us a very successful day. Mrs. Robert Peters Mrs. Charles Kanarr Co-Chairman | Mrs. Carl N. Brown i Publicity Chairman WRITE TO RUTH AUSTIN Friends: Please ask friends of Miss Ruth Austin ty send her a card to Tomp- kins County Hospital in Ithaca, N.Y. Her father, Rev. John R. Austin preached for Methodist Churches in the Back Mountain all the time Ruth was a little girl and a teen-ager. I want to thank you for send- ing me The Dallas Post. We sub- scribed for it for years, then Arline Bessmer sent it as a gift, and now you are sending it. I live alone and the Post is a real joy to me, and 1 appreciate your sending it. Sincerely Mrs. John Austin 206 Utica Street Ithaca, N.Y. TOO LATE FOR AUCTION ISSUE Dear Mrs. Hicks: I do not know who the Dallas news gatherer is, but I would ap- preciate an item in the Purely Per- sonal column to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brewster and fam- ily of three children, of Ossining, N.Y., are visiting John Brewster of 20 Terrace Drive, Dallas, for two weeks, over the July 4th weekend and the Library Auction, as they did last year. I do not know who receives gifts for the Auction, and I do not know anybody at the Antiques table this year. Will give you this check any- how. It is due in great part to your ‘| editorials that it is forthcoming. I have seen you several times during the Auction, but as usual you were at full speed ahead, and that’s too much for me. Best wishes John Brewster Fd. Note: Sorry we missed you. Mrs. Brewster was a faithful member of the Antiques Committee. We miss her very much. MEASLES IMMUNIZATION Dear Mrs. Hicks: ciety is most grateful to you for your assistance during our Mass | Measles Immunization Program on "June 11, 1767. : | We will appreciate an expression | of our gratitude to all of your per- | sonnel. Very Truly Yours, James G. Galante, M.D, Chairman Mass Meales | . 3 Immunization Program Services Friday For Mrs. Ella A. Roushey Funeral services will be held Fri- ‘day afternoon at 1:30 for Mrs. Ella A. Roushey, 67, of Fort Street, | Forty Fort, who died early Wednes- | day morning at Nesbitt Memorial ‘Hospital following several months | illness. Rev. Lawrence R. Kepler, pastor of Westmoor Church of | Christ, will officiate at the Snowdon How large, and how far away, is | Funeral Home, Shavertown. Burial a Uro? | will be in Memorial Shrine, Carver: Unidentified flying objects have | ton. § : i been with us for 4 good many years. | Native of Kingston Township, she Serious study was the daughter of the late David them. and Sarah Atherholt and spent Project Blue Book is based at | most of her life in Trucksville. Her Wright-Patterson AFB. | husband Clarence died in 1949, is being given | | —_— ee | after operating an auto service on ! rn { the highway in Trucksville for over Kurkle S. S. Picnic Bodkin Saturday At Wilson S | For the past few years Mrs. Roushey had lived in Kingston and Kunkle Sunday School Picnic will | Forty Fort. She was a member of be held all day Saturday, July 22 | Westmoor Church of Christ. at Tex Wilson's Pond. (Lake T-J).| Several nieces and nephews are A covered dish supper at 6 o'clock | her only survivors. with hot dogs and soda will be | Friends may call furnished. Each member is to bring | from 7 to 9. his place setting and silverware. | Games and swimming are on the | = agenda. Correction Thomas Landon is Sunday School Phillips had only one home run Superintendent. |in Championship Game between —_— Dallas Dairy and Shavertown Little — READ THE TRADING POST =~ [League Teams. this evening STOCKS MUTUAL FUNDS call or write Henry H. Otto, Jr. your local Registered Representative for J. H. BROOKS & CO. 15 South Franklin Street Wilkes-Barre, Penna. Members of the New York Stock Exchange since 1905 PHONE 823-3131 or 675-1265 288-2378 Pa mare Established 1905 DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— Pillar To Post .. Guest Column by Bruce Hopkins “Being sensitive is living on the heart side it creates life for, gives hope to, promises the eternity of.” The above verse was written by a very good friend of mine who gave it to me as a kind of thank you note for a gift I had given to her. I felt I would like to pass it on, as it rather expresses my philosophy of life, such as it may be. It seems to me that people Y these days are loosing the ability to express their emotions openly. I've noticed it especially among college students. Perhaps it's not as much a lack of empathy, as it is a lack of optimism. It's very difficult to get through a day without talking to someone who's depressed, ready to quit school, jump off of a bridge into Fishing Creek, or commit other such flights of fancy. These are the “futility of life” people that you read about in the papers all the time. They're the “typical college students.” (sic). When Mrs. Hicks asked me to write this column, she told me she was glad that I wasn’t one of these writers who dwells upon the futility of life. You know, the kind that are constantly trying to find a reason for living, and who write about how ugly the world is. Well, personally, I don’t think anybody needs to be reminded that the world’s ugly. You know it, and I know it, and the best thing to do is not worry about it. But then again, just because I don’t write about the futility of life, doesn’t mean I've found “reason for living.” I haven’t found one, and furthermore, I don’t think there is one. We're born, we live, and we die. It's just that simple. There's no reason for it—it just happens. Trying to find a reason for living is like trying to find a reason for going to the spook house at an amusement park. You go in and find all sorts of grotesque things to scare you; obstacles to over- come—twisted staircases to climb, tilted rooms to cross, rotating barrels to walk through, and so forth. You come out at the other end, and realize that you have been frightened, have struggled to get through, and met all kinds of obstacles, and yet you enjoyed it. You didn’t stop in the middle of the spook house, and decide youll couldn't go on. Because you knew that when you got to the end, you would look back and say, “That was fun. I'll have to do it again sometime.” To me, life is a spook house at an amusement park. I went to school with a guy last semester who was very, very confused about life (so who isn't?) One night he came into my room, and started philosophising. “What's the point of it all?” he asked. ‘Where are we going? What are we living for?” I looked up from my work for a minute and watched him, his forehead wrinkled in painful thought. ‘Tell me, Bruce,” he said, “What ARE we living for?” “You got somethin’ better to do with your time?” I asked him. He had to have a reason. “Steve,” 1 said, “you’ll never find a reason for living. Quite frankly, I don’t think there is one. But I figure that as long as we're here we might as well do it.” But Steve still wasn’t satisfied. He isn’t coming back to school next year. He's going to go to California to see if he can find a “reason” there. He won't. Thornton Wilder, in his play The Skin of Our Teeth, wrote: . and my advice to you is not to inquire why or wither} but just eat your ice cream while it’s on your plate, . . . . . This is the only possible “reason” I can give anyone for living. What I mean is, if you sit staring at a dish of ice cream for three weeks, asking yourself what its purpose is, why it’s there, if and “« July 11, 1967 | The Luzerne County Medical So- when you find out, you are going to discover that it has lost all its flavor. It will be very distasteful. So don’t tell me about how ugly the world is. Because, you see, it's not really the world that’s ugly—it’s the way you look at it. So go ahead—tell me I'm looking at the world through rose-y colored glasses. So I'm enjoying it. Have a dish of ice cream. Dot Comments On Congo News, Jots Tell Of Study And Travel Dorothy Gilbert, author of “Jots from Dot” has been away from Congo since last December, but she follows the news closely and believes she has some insight to share. ‘Not only do I read the fine print below the headlines,” she explained to a Post staff member, “but I can put faces to the words of the news. This is a privilege that not many people have.” Last year about this time the Post carried a story when Dorothy was prevented from passing a road block for two | days, because it was feared “the white peovle were coming to take over the Congo.” She emphasizes that much of the apparent anti-white feeling reported from the Congo is the result of fear rather than hate. The Bible tells us that “perfect love casteth out fear.” It is because of the reconciling logge of God in Christ Jesus that missionaries of many denomina- tions are working together in the Congo. Dorothy says that the geography and history of the Congo and the diversity of its people — about 200 that the forces that make it tend to fly apart are terribly strong. In- stead of deriding and condemning the Congo for not having attained perfect unity after seven whole years of nationhood. we should ad- mire them for what they have done and look for ways to assist them Creatively. “l am not passing judgement on the action of our State Department nor am I supporting a particular Congolese political party. I am not pro-nor anti-one side or the other, tribes and languages — are such | { I am simply pro the Congolese ¥ ple, who want what any other peo- [ple want: survival, human dignity, a chance to work their fields and harvest their crops in peace: edu- cation and health for their children.” Asked if she is still planning to return to Congo in December, Doro- thy replied. “Of course!" : Former Resident Dies Mrs. Victoria Laphy Blannett, | former Trucksville resident, died July 2 in Sun City, Ariona. Fu- neral services were held July 5 in Glendale, Ariz. Suburban : Restaurant at the “Y” IN DALLAS FEATURES: SPECIAL DINNERS SERVED Moderately Priced EVERY DAY OPEN FRIDAY and SATURDAY 24 HOURS Balance of Week 6 a.m. to Midnight ALL DAY a Pat Fre Hei Sto Lon ent, retu wee! M Pin Raly Emr then and wee) Wig ‘Wag ner Mrs. Mt. ente Nea chil
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