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; 33.00 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 Poh a. Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association (I: Member National Editorial Association : © de of Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. Cunt Managing Editor and Publisher MyRrA Z. RISLEY Editor ©... 0. Fa ER waa Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks Social and Sports Editor .... Mrs. FREDERICK ANDERSON Tabloid Editor... .... 0c edd s CATHERINE GILBERT Advertising Manager ....... 00000, Louisr MARKS Situation Pin-Pointed Jackson Township in a recent meeting pin-pointed a situation which affects a large percentage of the senior citizens in the Back Mountain. Elderly owners of modest properties face sale of their holdings because of their inability to scrape up enough money to pay the taxes on them. As capability to earn sufficient income to meet necessities decreases, cost of everything on the market increases. The Dallas Post has advocated elimination of prop- erty taxes on land or homes belonging to the elderly. This would be a juicy plum for some of the wealthy people of the area, as no line could be drawn. ] It would save many a home-loving man or woman from selling the family home and moving in with rela- tives, permitting them to maintain their dignity. There are people in the Back Mountain who are liv- ing on an incredibly small amount. All they ask is that they be allowed to do so without becoming a burden on others. To our mind, it is just as important to preserve the homesteads in the rural areas as it is to tear down houses in the urban centers and replace them with housing which is purportedly for people with small incomes, but which misses the mark. When the rural property, by reason of death, passes into younger hands, the property taxes would automat- ically be reimposed. Beaver, Come Back! The kids used to get a break, and so did their har- ried mothers. From five until six, just at the busy hour when supper is on the pan, but not yet ready to serve, there were two delightful shows on Tv, two shows that couldn’t do the youngsters a particle of harm, and were guaranteed to keep them glued to their seats in the living room, leaving Mom free to make with the pots and pans in the kitchen. There was “Leave it to Beaver,” a show which ap- pealed to the young without being slapstick, and immedi- ately after it, that delightful talking horse. The two shows, in sequence, were exactly what the doctor ordered. It wouldn’t make a bit of difference how often WBRE ran those ancient films, the kids would still settle down in front of the TV for that hour. Repetition merely makes the heart grow fonder. Beaver is an old friend. So what happens? The kids can now look at Divorce Court, getting a load of unfaithful wives, nagging mothers-in-law, and grumpy husbands, adult fare if you like that kind of hog- wash.* LS { 4 3 Far from acting to “stem the mounting tide of di- vorce,” the film probably puts ideas into the heads of folks who thought they were getting along pretty well, and it leads to questions on the part of the young. Mom’s in the living room catching up on the fine points of alimony, while the kids are sliding the TV din- ners into the oven and turning on the heat. We feel that Mom's place, come supper time, is in the kitchen. Of course, The Talking Horse comes on at 4:30, right before Divorce Court, and you can always shoo the kids ‘out of the living room when the lawyers begin to wrangle about the evidence of adultery, while bending your own ear in fascination, and licking your chops over the do- mestic muddle. My, My! B We miss Beaver. Beaver had a perfectly human elderly brother, and two very human parents. It was a perfectly commonplace family, with per- fectly commonplace problems. There was a lot of affection and a lot of understand- ing. : Beaver started to grow up, in the course of human events, until he was almost as tal] as his brother, scroung- ing hair stickum from him, and about to go to a school dance. : And the next show, there he was again in the third grade, trying to explain the unexplainable to a teacher. The viewers made the transition in time without a quiver. z So there was Beaver again, and a whole series stretch- ed out into the future, and do you suppose he'll make the same mistake this time? } Whoever put that show together knew his kids. And his parents. ? The Tax On Travel — A Boomerang The proposed travel tax on overseas tourists, if it goes through, is not going to endear us to other countries, nor is it going to encourage them to visit the United States. For years, this country has been making an effort to attract visitors from Europe. alono with an effort to sell a bill of goods to the public in See-America-First. This is a worthv undertaking. Bus companies offer those of school or college age an attractive package deal on seeing the country from coast to coast. Many students have taken advantage of it. Plane fares take a sharp drop in price for students. We think that retired folks might perhaps have the same break. It would stimulate seeing America First. But sometime in everybody's life, the urge to travel to other lands begins to sprout. It is impossible to manage on $7 per dav. the sue- gested allowance for food. lodging and travel. Everything beyond that figure would be taxed, and if you splurce to the ultimate luxury of $15 a day, which is just about enough to squeak by, with strict economy, the tax will be higher. It does not apply to Senators nor to men making trips on business, just to people who have been dreaming about making the Grand Tour and have been saving up for it, seeing the value of their savings decrease con- ‘stantly. : Like most measures such as this proposed levy on travel, the proposal will boomerang. It will cut down on travel to these shores, Only | Yesterday It Happened 30 Years Ago Mt. Greenwood Kiwanis and Dallas Rotary were planning a com | munity council. Civic leaders were solidly behind the movement, de- | signed to bring the various munici- palities closer together, Atty. Peter | Jurchak was one of the leaders. | Squabbles over who's responsible | for maintenance of Center Hill | Road, resulted in a statement by | the Motor Club that State Highway was willing to take over mainte- [ nance of the stretch between Lake | | Street and the railroad, if the two municipalities could not scttle their | differences. Norman Johnstone was | executive secretary of the Motor | Club. The Borough maintained sec- | | . . | tion was in good shape. | | Goodleigh Farm Guernsey was | high in bi-county rating. Hillside | Farm ranked second. : | Scores of petty crimes seemed | | te have been solved with jailing | ° | of three men. Whole families im-'| | plicated. Mrs. Margaret Cottle’s wire-nair- | { ed terrier puppy took top honors | in New York. No exemption for mailmen or WPA workers, must pay per capita | tax in Dallas School District. | Willard Lozo headed the Quoit | | League. { | George F. | Noxen coal dealer ! Stitzer, 72, died. | Shavertown firemen were prepar- | ling to open their new home with | a party. With a banner head on | page five, yet. The building was | the former Bush ‘place on Main Street, revamped with space for | equipment in front, recreation room in the rear, apartment overhead. | Chuck roast was 15 cents a pound, | pork loins 17, leg of lamb 23. You | could get fillets of bluefish for 10 | cents a pound. { It Happened 20 Years Ao) | | Jackson Township Volunteer fire- men open a drive to raise B12 for new equipment. Little Theatre of Wilkes-Barre, | planning to present “On Borrowed Time,” asked local people to at- tend try-outs. Donald “D. ‘Smith! was graduated with honors from Penn State. Library planned to invest sur- plus funds in an endowment fund. Wilbur Nichols was promoted to auditor of Glen Alden. Pa] Harveys Lake Light Company filed a new schedule, which would save consumers $20.000 annually. Kunkle Community Hall Associa- | tion elected Charles Martin presi- dent, succeeding Forest Kunkle. Carl Stainbrook was the new Di- vision Supervisor of Pennsylvania Game Commission. Mrs. Emma Brader, native of Shavertown. : John Haycox and Sandra Hislop | cases these days. Johnnie Sheehan, Huntsville Road, | was likewise afflicted. (He recover- | ed, and he's about to get married | | as of this writing — to our Sandy Strazdus.) Married: Molly Poad to James Er- vine. It Happened 10 Years Ago Robert Broody, badly burned | when he threw gasoline on a trash | fire at his greenhouse in Beach Haven, was holding his own at Ber- wick Hospital. Sixty percent of his body had been scorched. Five Boy Scouts camped over- | night in the teeth of a howling | blizzard. Snug and warm, from Troop 232, under direction of Jchn | | Butler, leader, and Peter Luc- | kasavage, assistant, were Tommy | Glen, Peter Blessing, Tom Lee, J. Luckasavage, and Harley Misson. Nancy Love and Freddy Valen- tine posed for the Valentine picture at the top of page one. Quarter-Midget racing was in prospect for the spring. Plans were being made for a nearby race- | track. Children from 6 to 16 to | compete. | Dallas Union School District | board meeting was still beset by | petty squabbles. Made good ncws {forthe front page. In advance of | the meeting, board members posed | shoulder to shoulder for the pix for the school year-book, before | preparing to decapitate each other. Those were troubled times. Burgess Norti Berti said the skat- ing pond in Dallas would be ready for use by the weekend, snow had been scooped off, and fire chief Shaffer was prepared to fill the pond up to level if necessary. Dsllas takes Lehman 80 to 68. ’ THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, FECLRUARY 15, 1968 KEEPING POSTED hE NE RRS RES ERED EE PE EYE February 7: HILL NEAR KHE SANH overrun by Reds, last ditch defense by Green Berets. ANTI-CRIME package by LBJ received enthusias- | tically by Congress. EXPLOSION IN Sausage factory in Chicago, 6 | dead, a number hurt. BRITISH P. M. in Washington. | QUEEN VICTORIA EUGENIA in Spain, first time \ / DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Downs Has Eye | 7om— On White House Ernest Downs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Downs of Malvern, was one of two high school seniors from | Pennsylvania wh, were selected to represent the State in Washington | for the week of January 21-27, | in the United States Senate Youth | Ernest, a «cnior at Great Valley | [in Sun City. | pictures of them before their eyes [ Two flew at mv head once. | tontails | ford them in 37 years. SITUATION IN SAIGON easing, as week-long push continues against major cities. : PERUVIAN CITY wants to exchange council for garbage truck. What's the: difference? NEW YORK SPARED heavy snowstorm to com- plicate garbage. * Northeaster sweeps out to sea. * 3 * February 8: LIBERIAN TANKER PEGASUS wallows in storm off Virginia, six members of crew remain aboard to foil salvage vultures. AMERICAN SOLDIERS landed by helicopter on race track outside Saigon. WILSON ENTERTAINED at White House dinner. BLOODY STREET FIGHTING continues in Hue. WALLACE CANDIDATE, third party, American Independent. * * * February 9: ISRAELIS-ARABS exchange fire across Jor- dan. TRANSPORT PLANE missing in Himalayas. GARBAGE STRIKE continues in New York. Gov- ernor intervenes, no results. Situation seen as lead- crewmen lost. BOMBING RESUMED * * ing to disease and breeding of rats. TRANSPORT PLANE shot down near Saigon, five first time in three weeks. * 4 February 10: PEACE NIBBLES? TROUBLE SHOOTER Cyrus Vance flies to South Korea. GOLD MEDAL for U.S. figure skater at Grenoble. KHE SANH airfield open to planes again after crashed freight" plane wreckage is cleared. Only way of supplying Khe Sanh is by air. GOVERNOR AND MAYOR at sword’s points over means to end strike. * * * February 11: U THANT IN MOSCOW, talking to the Kremlin. ISRAEL AND ARABS exchange shots. U. S. PLANES BOMB communications center in North Vietnam. MEET THE PRESS: Can the Vietnsn: war be won? ADA ENDORSES McCarthy for president. * * * February 12: FORD THEATRE reopens in Washington, first time since assassination of President Abra- ham Lincoln. The play, ‘John Brown’s Body.” 400 PICKED MARINES prepare to assault Viet- cong stronghold in Imperial City of Hue. MISSIONARIES MASSACRED near Saigon. GARBAGE STRIKE OVER. Governor offers 50 cents more a week than Mayor, Lindsay says it sets dangerous precedent. way. Massive cleanup under Lucky it wasn’t summer. U’ THANT IN LONDON, seeing P. M. Wilson. NEGRO COLLEGES: closed in Orangeburg after racial disturbance in killed. ; THREE UNIONS pull which three students were out of ADA: Steel, Lady's Garment, Communications. Support LBJ. FATHER GROPP], fined and paroled, savs he will continue march for open housing in Milwaukee. 10.500 MORE U.S. TROOPS slated for Vietnam at Westmoreland’s request. ; MEMPHIS FOLLOWS New York’s lead, has gar- bage strike. GREECE SUBMITS two possible constitutions. February 14: MARINES ASSAULT on walled citadal under heavy fire. Jin many onimen wer cect Boges And Road-Bunners. Petunias sous ded ovr none» AN Picnics, Out There In Arizona Miriam Lathrop says her letter isn’t for printing, but it is so interesting had scarlet fever. Not very many | that we'll share it with our readers. While we are turning up the furnace another notch, we'll think about those roses and petunias. Her account | of the road-runners makes us think of that horrible story by Daphne DuMaurier, “The Birds.” Miriam writes from Sun City, Arizona: We have a pair of road-runners They are wsually risen : only on the desert, and don’t come near houses. People don’t under- stand how they happen to be here. They are vicious. One of them tore a mocking-bird to pieces. and" there lis a rumor that thev killed g cat, | but rumors start easily here. Some friends of mine had three baby jackrabbits under a bush in their yard. and thev started taking were oven. Those road-runners tried to kill them. She threw thing at them and finallv choced them | with a broom. bnt the rabbits were gone the next day. The mocking-birds are usually the vicious ones. I tie Susie right’ by the door so thev don’t peck her. and I took a picture of one on the porch in front of the screen door. scolding at Susie on the inside Thev don't bother unless they have nests. We are overrun with rabbits. cot- and jacks. Some people and others think there should be a law to kill them. They have been eating wvlants of mine that they never liked mntil this | year. 1 «et out some petunias n week ago and put a tin fence around | each one, and sprinkled them with then I looked out and saw two huge jacks sitting near them. So I went to the door and | said, “Don’t you touch those pe- | tunias.” i They stayed, but so far they | haven’t eaten ‘the plants. | I cut down all my roses in the | last couple of weeks, except one so | There are new leaves on those 1 I can have blooms in the house. | cut back, and next month they will be blooming again, insect powder, in ‘the outdcor Things were slow this = winter, little frost, but with =ll the snow and below zero weather north! of here, it has been cold. TI have only one sweet pea in blenm. There | econld still be some cold days in February, but not frost. , Seme of us had a picnic Thursdav. about fiftv miles from here. and it was lovelv. yet we could see the snow on the mountains. . Tt is warm enough now for shows Sun Bowl. weeks ago there was o variety show, and it was too warm to wear a jacket. = There were about 8 000 reople there. Today is some kind show which T didn’t attend but ona Sundrv this month we will see Guv Lombardo, and in March Liberace. A There® is lots to do here. I am so glad that Sue Davern is the librarian in Dallas. She did volunteer work for me when I was Librarian, It was a wonderful six- teen years. Sue is the only one I know who would have a real feeling for the library. Nobody from away could take a real and vital interest ALLEN GILBERT Insurance Broker 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. of a ~ | said. been a source of great pleasure Two |, 288-2378 : High School, and president of its! Student Council, derived ir~piration | | from the sixth annual Senate pro- | | gram. The inspiration led him to take a deep breath on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, and for him. He was going ty come back some day as a representative or a s2nator, ; and he had his eye on the White House One hundred young men from fifty states, plus two. from the Dis- trict of Columbia, had an interview | with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, | and heard A+tv General R-amsev Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. They all spent a day at the office of their senators, and , visited ' the White House. When Herbert Downs of Beau- | mont, Ernest's grandfather, dis- played his clipping to the staff of the Dallas. Post. he reminded Hix | ‘that he had been a fellow student in the Creative Writing Coruse given by Robert Hukill in the adult eve- | ning classes sponsored at that time by Dallas Senior High School. And he wondered why the classes were discontinued. They had. he | and benefit to him. Services Satnrdov AM. For Mrs. Mary Biery | | Mrs. Mary H. Biery, 62, died on | Tuesday at the home of her daugh- | ter, Mrs. Angela Komnath in Mead- | ville. where she had lived since No- | vember. moving from 127 Lakeside | Drive, Harveys Lake. . | The former Mary Hearity, born | in Wilkes-Barre, was daughter of the late John and Katherine Flana- gan Hearity, and a communicant | of St. Mary's Church. | Her husband Otto, active in area | affairs, died October 12, 1963. : She leaves another daughter, Mrs. Arthur D. Long, living in Hawaii; five grandchildren. Burial will be in St. Mary's Ceme- tery, following services at Bron- | son’s Funeral Home at 8, and at | St. Mary's at 9:30. Friends may call at the Bronson Funeral Home from 7 to 9 Friday evening. | REMINDER an- | | nounce to the world that this was | A reminder that there is Youth Opportunity every Tuesday from 9 | to noon, at Dallas Borough Building, | plus valuable information on Hu-| man Resources. A visit ty the office could lead to a better job or a more rewarding | career. { I am planning on going on a ‘our | | to Hawaii in April with a group | | from here, a sixteen day trip. Of | course that means I will be here | | all summer, but at least I know | | that Susie and my trees and flowers | will be happier if I stay with them when the temperature is over 100. TREMENDOUS SAVINGS FACTORY-TO-YOU PIANO PRICES % Exactly As Shown Pillar To Post eee by HIX It was a highly unpopular editorial, as it was intended to be. Enraged citizenry who did not have the nerve to write a letter to the Dallas Post, and sign their names, bled freely over the air- waves. Picking up a phone is an easy way of letting off steams The junk mail still accumulates in the mailbox on Pionecr Ave- nue, and still gets pitched mercilessly into the waste basket. 1One man down in this area did write. his outfit was being picked on, and expanded the subject to the tune of two and one half single spaced pages, which he nigh us to print in its entirety. We measured it off, and it would havi forty inches of space, so we declined. taken First time we ever knew there was an Indian foundation based in Shavertown. The Indian foundations which run’us ragged are the ones two thousand miles from here which send out form letters. Mail out a check, and immediately you get-another appeal. Fail to send a check, and you get a plaintive form letter asking what has terminated a beautiful friendship. Addressed to a man who has been dead for over four years, but whose name, in spite of correc- tion, is still on the mailing list. The only person who was entitled to raise some pointed ques- tions was the head of the Pennsylvania Federation for the Blind, Frank Lugiano, who has been taking the rap for the scandalous conduct of the State Commissioner for the Blind ever since the reve- lation that Norman Yoder's tale of six college students blinded from staring into the sun after taking LSD was a hoax, a fabrication out of whole cloth. Mr. Lugiano called up the Dallas Post to suggest that whoever did the editorial should have prefaced the writing with a little more that there was a vast difference between the State Agency for the Blind and the State Federation for the Blind. Hix doesn’t usually work on Fridays, so she wasn't aro take the call. Myra called the house: “You've got your foot in your mouth home-work, d to again,” she suggested. “Any worse than usual ?”’ “Well, yes, quite a bit.” “T'Nl be in)” ® On the assumption that if I didn’t stir it up, the mud might settle, T waited around, removing one column cuts from blocks and filing them in the cabinet. : Came the phone call: “This is Frank Lugiano speaking. Would you like to make a correction 7” “Mr. Lugiano, would you like to write a letter which we could print in Safety Valve 7” Mr. Lugiano said it was easier to talk instead of write, and. could I spare ten minutes ? The ten minutes extended itself to half an hour, and it was completely fascinating. What a man. Imagine being blinded by a flung baseball at the age of twelve, and going on to make a life for himself. I've promised myself that some day I'll go to see him andwrite a feature story. That takes real heroism, to pick up the pieces. He knows what the sky looks like, and the green grass, and the happy little brooks, but he has not seen them since he was a boy. He has never allowed himself to feel sorry for himself. His eight years at the Overbrook School for the Blind equipped him to meet life on its own ‘terms, striding forward into a maturity which is an example to everybody who knows him. { Here at the Dallas Post, we have a feeling that all this pub. icity about the culpable commissioner for the Blind, will have the #cct of increasing the support for the Federation. Folks who took up the cudgels for their favorite charity will see to it that for the spring concert which largely supports the Federa- tion, there is standing room only. And our best guess is that many people who never before have written checks, will now be moved to do so. Including one Hix, now facing a plateful of stewed crow. Eating crow is never to be recommended. It is highly un- palatable. 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