rt a Lt SE SECTION A — PAGE 2 - THE DALLAS POST Established 1889 Entered as second-class matter at he post office at Dallas, Pa. under the Act of March 3, 1889. Subscription rates: $5.00 a vear; 33.00 six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of-State subscriptions, $5.50 a year; $3.50 six wonths or less. Back issues, more than one week old, 15c. Member Audit Bureau of Circulationg oa Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association </ Th: Member National Editorial Association (ID; Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. to Managing Editor and Publisher ...... Myra Z. RISLEY Editor So. on cre a Su Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks Social and Sports Editor .... MRS. FREDERICK ANDERSON Tabloid Editor CATHERINE GILBERT Louis MARKS - AND THEY WONDERED . He was the great-greatgrandson of a slave. The blood of black forebears and white forebears b coursed warmly in his veins. His eyes shone with the zeal of justice, and his words were compelling, terrible in their earnestness. He had stood upon the mountain. His followers all too often did not heed his call for odeatien. for! moving with dignity, intent upon their goal. Martin Luther King accomplished more by his death than he could.have accomplished in a lifetime of exhor- tation. The nation was appalled by his brutal] murder. The President of the United States issued a formal declaration of a period of mourning, with flags at half staff.’ Dignitaries paid tribute to his stature as a leader of men. i Black and white “joined in a common grief and a silent promise, a prayer for understanding. And they wondered . The captain of the slave shiv) closing his Bible, coh to the mate, in St. Stephen Vincent Benet’s unforgettable saga, John Brown's Body: We're spreading the Lord's seed — spreading His seed — His hand made the outflung motion’ of the sower, And the mate, staring, seemed to hear the: slight Patter of fallen seeds on fertile ground, : Black shining seeds, robbed from a black: king's storehouse, Falling and falling on American earth With light, inexorable patter and fall, To strike, lie silent, quicken, + Til] the Spring Came with its weeping rains, and. the ground bore A blade, a shadow-sapling, a tree of shadow, A black-leaved tree whose trunk and root were shadow, A tree shaped like a. yoke, growing and growing Until it blotted all the seaman’s ‘stars, Horses of anger trampling, horses of anger, , Trampling behind the sky in ominous cadence, Reat of the heavv hooves like metal on metal, Trampling something down . . . Was it they, was it they? Or was it the cold wind in the leaves of the shadow tree That made such grievous music? n ; ; WE DON’T MAIL MAPS The maps of the Dallas area are going ike hot aiken. apparently the answer to prayer. The supply is limited, What we did not anticipate was that people would write in and ask us to mail a map to California or where- ever. This poses a neat question. How can anybody ex- pect us to mail them out for fifteen cents, crammed into an envelope? The postage alone would amount to twelve cents, plus handling. We are not in the map-mailing itn: The maps are on the counter at the Dallas Post. They are printed on very heavy paper which does not take kindly to creas- ing. ‘We roll them up and snap a rubber band around them, and future disposition is up“to the customer. They are designed for posting on a study: wall for easy reference, not for carrying in the hip pocket or the glove compartment of a car. 5 If demand is sufficient, we would issue a thinner version, which could be readily folded, readily mailed. The cost would be higher, probably two bits. We don’t think it is worth it, the way the community pattern is changing. It is impossible to keep a map up to date. : DOG POISONER AT LARGE Poisoning a dog is about as low as a person can get, and still retain status as a human being. We had a rash of dog poisoning a few years ago. The poisoner was known, but unless such a man can be caught in the act he cannot be accused. Dog poisoners and cat poisoners work furtively, slinking filemsly away after the deed is done. We always have a few people in our midst who will poison a pet in order to satisfy a grudge. We have another poisoner at large. People move out here from the city so that they can: have dogs. Once in a while they experience a jolt when they find that very little can be done about human nature, that there are always a few people who enjoy subjecting a’ pet to hours of agony before merciful oblivion steps in. To Our Correspondents To our correspondents, a word about news. ii If you have important news, such as a Bloodmobile visit, a ceremony for a distinguished favorite son, a fire, an accident, of front page status, do not incorporate it in your column of the man who came to dinner and the first robin. Call the Dallas Post, get in touch with Hix, and tell her what is in the wind. She will decide whether the item is newsworthy enough for the front page. Everybody sees what is on the front page. Your own community reads your column. It does not have com-! plete Back Mountain readership. Not only that, but it is apt to be cut off from the bottom, if space is at a premium. AND, when some future editor looks through the bound volumes to gather items for ten, twenty,” thirty years ago, it is the front page which carries weight, 10 Years Ago Only Yesterday It Happened 30 Years Ago | A plaintive front page note a | the WPA. beautified the gutters, | but left the holes in the roads | intact. (For our money, they could | local lawyer, ; Wilkes-Barre. have left the gutters alone. Ever hit one’ of those rocks with your | hub cap?) Atty Frank Townend, a young | was admitted to prac- | tice before the Supreme Court of | Pennsylvania. His office was in the Kitchen Building on Main Street for | convenience of clients wishing to | hold evening consultations. He was | associated with Neil Crisman in | Dallas. Postmaster Polacky ex- | tended an invitation to high school | studénts''to enter an essay contest. The -prize, an airplane trip to | Washington. 3 | Two summer homes at the Lake | destroyed by fire. Fisher and Lukesh | cottages at Wardan Place. Arthur James campaign head- | quarters for Dallas on Main Street. No: full time. cov for Dallas Town- | ship, court decided. Much opposi- | tion. Dallas Championship . Team. being made to honor Borough had the Plans members Girls’ | | were | at | a dinner given by Borough PTA. Wasn't too’ much news. All sorts | | of items got on the front page. The sters: | Rev. Russell May, motto was ‘anything that fits.” (We've had plenty of Spooks el that.) An editorial mentioned that it | was unusual to have women serve | on a jury, butthat fourteen had been drawn for Luzerne County Common Pleas Court sessions. In| the same’ list were 226 men. | Contributing articles during the Lenten season were six locel mini- Rev. Herbert E. Frankfort, Rev. Guy Lien- thal Rev. C. Duane Butler, Rev. | ! Harry M. Savacool, ‘Rev. Francis | Freeman. { | | | | | | | | sion ‘to Moscow. i i | County | were newcomers to the League. | f | ! chased high pressure fog equipment. | from a tour of service in Russia, | | cussing school consolidation. Board and The tax situation in Pennsylvania | | was said to be driving industry to | | other states. Senator Harold Flannery was | writing a weekly Washington news- It Happened 20 Years Ago Col. John P. Kirkendall made | front page news by coming home Germany,” and the Near East. He was a member of the Military Mis- Tex Wilson was named Captain of the East Dallas Team in the Bi- League, Walter Schultz asistant, and Ted Wilson manager. Harding and Shavertown teams Back Mountain Lions were dis- members from Ross, Hunlock, Union Townships were present, Su- perintendent Eugene Teter spoke. Jackson Township firemen pur- Delivery was expected in time for the fire company to enter the Sweet Valley Memorial Day parade. si Mildred Borton was named Dallas | “| Township Queen of the May, three | weeks in advance. She was the] | daughter of Dallas stationmaster | Borton. | | Trees were being felled at Fern- | brook Park, and brush cleared in | preparation for the new Bloomsburg | | plant. | Lack of water contributed to loss | | of the Elmer Scovell home at Hunts- | { ville, when three companies fought | Lake Silkworth, | | the blaze, reporting from Lehman, ! and Dallas. Lehman firemen saved a large barn on ‘the Skopic property. Burr- | ing rubbish and a high wind. Usual story. Fishermen found little luck first | day of trout season. Streams t00 | high. | | Married: Arvilla. Swan to James | Keiper. Jr. {and Mrs. Scott Newberry. Died: If anybody died, | | | | | ing Tunkhannock to take its senior {a whopping big crowd at its open baby were ‘rushed from a smoke- | filled home on Tanners Hill in Nox- |'en ‘when fire broke out around a Anniversary: Golden Wedding, Mr. | it wasn’t in| Pi paper. | significant contribution to, the wid- | | ening of It Happened Miners Bank, Dallas Branch, drew house. Monroe Township was petition- high students. The jointure with Dallas fell through. Ailing grandmother and small | chimney in the Hettesheimer home. | Married: Anne Louise Hall to Rob- | ert J. Jewell. | Died: Mrs. Evelyn Mathews, Dallas RD 4, burial in Ohio. Mrs. Bertha Luella Goss, 83, native of Bloom- ingdale. Mrs. Margaret Garrison, 87, Carverton Road. THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1968 PEE DES EENIENSREESEGES KEEPING POSTED April 3: SOUTH VIETNAM comes talks of peace. PRESIDENT cautiously wel- NORTH VIETNAM CAGEY, but shows Softening toward idea of negotiations. LACKING A VILLAIN to attack, now that LBJ has announced his non-candidacy, McCarthy nomi- nates CIA and FBI for the post, launches attack. McCarthy attracts students, vote. most. too young to SAVAGE SPRING SNOWSTORMS' in Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas, Arkansas and Kentucky. twisters in Tennessee, TRANQUILIZED ELEPHANT TRANSPORTED by helicopter, headed for sawmill in Vietnam to haul logs. * * * April 4: ARCHBISHOP TERRENCE COOK installed at St. Patrick’s, LBJ attends. BLOODY FIGHTING in Vietnam. NORTH VIETNAM charges bombing ioids went too far north, near China. RELIEF OF KHE SANH in sight, Marines dong with army. SATURN ROCKET, ordered to land in Pacific. poned moon flight. unmanned, develops bugs, May. delay long-post- MARTIN LUTHER KING murdered in Memphis. LBJ CANCELS trip to Hawaii. Will meet West- moreland, Bunker, here. CURFEW IN MEMPHIS, National Guard called out, race riot. * * * April 5: KING'S MURDER Looting, burning. sparks riots in Washington. Cherry Blossom Festival can- celled, students told to get out of cavital. Bands from all over the country on hand. Was to have been their biggest day. SUSPECT still at large. FEDERAL TROOPS a+ Capital. RIOTS IN CHICAGO, Detroit. KHE SANH reinforced, end of the siege. looks like beginning of the LBJ SPEARS to the people, extremely moving talk. * April 6: CZECH ARINET resigns. RALTIMORE SEETHES, 6,000 National Guard on duty. IN WASHINGTON. 11.000 troops, situation eases. STOKELY CARMICHAEL people.” FLAGS AT HALF STAFF for King. “I DON'T KNOW what the future holds, know who holds the cent sermon by King. shouts, “Kill white but I future,” quotation : from. re- * * * April 7: DAY OF MOURNING. DISORDERS WORST since Civil Wa, Sibsiding, y U. S. ARMY assists Khe Sanh. Marines in lifting siege of NEW YORK'S Mayor Lindsay links ‘arms with Negroes and sings, ” “We shall Overcome.” Enor- mously popular with people of Horlem, «Unafraid, a leader. * * * April 8: BALTIMORE'S DISORDERS said not to be racial violence but lawlessness. both white and black. GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION in Richmond, Indiana, 39 known dead, many missing. pected as cause. Gas leak sus-« LBJ ORDERS bombing to stop att 19th Parallel. * * * April 9: MARTIN LUTHER KING funeral draws dolossal Crowd, notables from all over the country, the oreat and the near-gr eat. Vice President attends. Mule-drawn farm cart bears the casket from Eb- enezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College. Con- snicuous by his absence, the Governor, ‘of Georeia. The long march was ended for the man who had won the Nobel Peace Prize. WASHINGTON QUIETER. LBJ AT CAMP DAVID, conferring on plans for - peace talks with Ambassador Bunker and advisors. DISPLACED PEOPLE in Chicago riots being fed and housed. CZECHS GITARANTEE freedom of travel follow- ing upheaval in government. NEWARK, N.J., fires set, negroes help “onl it for Martin Luther King.” * * * April 10: NEW ZEAT.AND in harbor at Wellington, FERRY, caught by tvohoon capsizes in wild surf, fifty known dead, 100 missing, small boats pick up survivors, reminiscent of ‘evacuation of forces “from Dunkirk. Car ferry carried 614, plus cars. BIGGEST OFFENSIVE of the war starts near Saigon, Stalemate. Operation victory replacing Operation LOCATION FOR TALKS under advisement. Back Mountain Memorial Library by Mrs. Martin Davern A list of notable books for 1967 has been compiled by the Notable | Books Council of the Adult Serv- | ices Division, American Library As- sociation. The titles were selected for their man’s knowledge, the understanding of contemporary | problems, and for the pleasure they can provide. to adult readers. “The New Industrial State” by John Kenneth Galbraith is a pro- vocative profile and projection of | the United States economy. It knits the great changes of the past fifty years into a complete and consist- ent view ciety. “To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administra- of modern industrial so- | trol” by Fred” W. Friendlv.® Mr. Friendlv was president of CBS. News from 1964 to 1966. and during his | sixteen years at that network he received scores of awards for: his | work in broadcasting. . In “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok. the clash between generations and between extremely orthodox and more liberal Jewish ‘sects is sensi- | | tively presented in the story of | two teen-age friends. This book | was one of the five books of fiction nominated for the 1967 National Book Award. The above mentioned titles are among the 65 notable books listed for 1967, all of whichiare available at or through your Back Mountain | Memorial Library. MASS OF MEMORY tion of John F. Kennedy” by Roger | Hilsman is a lively survey of foreign | policy and the ‘men who have made and are making it. Mr. Hilsman is stubbornly specific and paints vivid, blunt portraits of national figures. “Because television can make so much maney doing its worst, it oft- en cannot afford to do its best.” This is the theme of the book, “Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Con- Gate of Heaven was the scene | Tuesday night of a Mass in-Memory | of Martin Luther King in which | young people of the church assisted. | Members of the Holy Name Society made the arrangements. The Mass was followed by a meeting at which | Rev. Allan Conlin; editor of Cath- olic Light, was the Sesion. 1 { | Safety Valve PRAISE FROM DAN To the Editor: Instead of being criticized right | and left, the School Board should be commended for recent actions | in backing away from enlarging the | district, and in eliminating a half | million dolar swimming pool from | the new junior high school. Besides investment cost, the swimmmg pool would require sub- stantial expenses for maintenance, and an enormous expense for safe | operation. An unprotected and un- | supervised pool is an invitation to | disaster. We commend the school board, | especially since a substantial in- crease in expenditures for teacher’s salaries is in the offing. According to reports the school | | board bonded indebtedness. (in the |'name of the authority) is expected to. be about $7,293,000 when the junior high school is financed. To | this must be added about $1,250,000 to cover the proposed elementary building. Actual school board rental payment for the proposed elemen- tary school was supposed to be about $65,000 based on 4% bonds | for thirty-seven years. The rental for the senior high school will run | to the year 2000, and the new junior | high school will prcbably be for | about “the same term. But no bonds at 4% can be sold. The best rate obtainable is 5.76% | for the money for the junior high | school. The 1967 valuation for the school | district was reported by the county | assessors as $17,197,192. The sum absent. Oppose Strikes ‘at a meeting of the Tau Chapter dino Manor, Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin “| presiding. of the bonds outstanding, plus tem- porary loans, plus annual deficits | carried year after year, will make | a total, as soon as the elementary | building is started, amounting to | half the assessed valuation of the | schoel district. And since the State Tax Equaliza- tion Board in figures for 1966 pub- | lished last July showed a market value for the district of $43,465,400, there is no guarantee that the state share of the rental will continue at the prevailing rate. As local in- come increases. state rental pay- ments will probably decline. D. A. Waters Status Teachers Key women teachers of the Back Mountain went on record as oppos- ing mass resignations and striking, of Delta Kappa Gamma, internation- al honor society. The poll was taken at the March | meeting held last Saturday at Al- A “Giving of the Green’ cere- mony was held to share green stamps and greenbacks with the Alice Lloyd School, Pippa Passes, Kentucky for educational work in that Appalachia section. Seventy- five dollars were collected and enough green stamps to fill five books. Mrs. Dorothy Bayless of Hazleton High School reviewed the book | “Death in Life” by Listca of Yale | who did psychological research on the effects of the Hiroshima bomb. | These Back Mountain members attended: Miss Pearl Averett, Mrs. Oce Beryl Austin, Miss Lillian Bur- | Davis, Mrs. Nora Dymond, Mrs. | Sarah Dymond, Mrs. Marjerie Cos- grove, Miss Ruth Merrel, Mrs. Mil- dred Garinger, Mrs. Thelma Lamo- | reaux, Miss Esther Saxe, Mrs. Ar- | line Trimble, and Mrs. Dorothy | Withey. gess, Miss Hazel Baer, Miss Cornelia | | | Dallas Cadet Troop Works On Citizenship Cadet Girl Scout Troop 639 of | Dallas is now working on the Chal- | lenge of Active Citizenship and is in need of help. The project is to | create a Girl Scout shelf in the | Back Mountain Memorial Library for the use of all Girl Scouts in the Back Mountain as research facili- ties for badge work. May we ask your help? If you have my books in any of the follow- ing . categories, please contact 675-1217 at any time after 4:00 p.m. ‘ "Camping and Campcraft Skills. Health and Saftey. | Cooking, Homemaking and Sew- | ing. | Music, Games. Arts and Crafts. Child Care. « Money Management. U. S. History, Science, Folklore, Nature Lore, Citizenship. International Friendship. Signed: Nancy Rodda, Carol Pil- ger, Melanie Albert, Charlene Dem- my, and Georgeanne Kostenbauder. “Butterfly That Blushed” Girl Scouts of Troop 656 Car- | verton recently attended the per- | formance of “The Butterfly that Blushed,” staged at Misericordia. As in the past the cast obliged the scouts by autographing their pro- grams! Attending were: Meagan Davis, Cindy Cobleigh, Jane Mar- stell, Nancy Voitek, Debbie Werts, Elsie Harris, Sandy Perry, Susan Richards, Debbie Jo Wasserott, Leader Joan Wasserott and Mrs. Lois Davis. Three scouts were | Hospital. ~~ DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA From— Pillar To Post by HIX So many momentous things have happened during the short span of a wek that a flippant column, aimed at amusing and enter- taining the readers with a tongue in cheek, seems completely cut of place. Pillar to Post seldom goes off the aos end. People have enough problems, and they need to laugh upon occasion. laugh far oftener than they do. They need to But this week, there does not seem to be too much to laugh about. A terrible thing has happened, and terrible consequences are being felt. have helped to point the gun. At the time of this writing, Who pulled the trigger is of small moment. All of us the suspect has not 3 caught. We think, ourselves, that authorities are looking for the wrong man, but we may be proved in error, even before this paper goes to press. We entertain a deep-seated conviction that the murder was staged too well. sponsible was a red herring drawn across the actual trail. That the man who is supposed to have been re- That he made certain that he would be remembered instead of fading into the background. Certain it ‘is that advocates of violence have now received the go-ahead signal, and that they are now on the march. We feel the winds of change, and their breath is cold upon us. We are headed, we know not where. A mob is unpredictable. Violence is wildly contagious. There are lawless elements in our society, both black and white, who are panting for a chance to take the law into their own hands. I have a background which enables me ito ‘have a better under- standing of relations between the races than many people have. Born in Pennsylvania in a country parsonage far out toward the Ohio border, years old. I had never seen a colored person until I was six I had never known that there were other races. Children live encapsulated in their environment. When we moved to Baltimore there would be colored folks, and I was not to stare. I tried to make a picture of soleifesonle on pink. green, blue? in 1898, my parents had told me Colored . . . my drawing pad with my new crayons. The sedate colored woman who moved into our kitchen was chocolate brown, and I loved her motherly. and just exactly the right color. She was warm and I got out my drawing on sight. pad and the brown crayon and got to work again. 1 was brought up in a border state where races were strictly segregated. We took this for granted. were. and not to be questioned. It was the way@at things When I went away to school, it was in the north. The question of color did not arise. Students were in college to study demonstrate. Nor did it arise during the college years. in those far distant days. not to Our fathers, having paid a substantial sum, for our tuition and our housing, expected us to study: When I married. it was to a northern man, and there was a new home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mv husband took me to a church supper, where there was a distinguished looking colored couple. The man, a lawyer, noting that I was a stranger, came and sat beside me at the supper table, to welcome me to the church and the community. For a moment I was completely at a loss. I like to think that innate breeding took over, for it was only for a moment. The amaze- ment turned to interest, and in no in Europe. drawing near. time we were discussing the war At that time, it was not our war, though the time was On the Pacific Coast, years later. the:schools were alive with Orientals, small and fragile looking children for the most part. Per- haps there was a racial problem, but if so,.I never knew it. When we lived in Texas for a few months, mv eldest son was the only American child in his class at seliol. children were Mexicans. All the rest of the At the present writing, I have a Rn who oper. “i nursery school in Virginia. She has two little colored children in r kinder- garten, and in the course of her recreational work duringgthe sum- mer, she has supervision of two playgrounds for colored 1ldren as well as supervision of playgrounds predominately white. To her. a child is a child, small hands placed confidingly in hers, small faces lifted in complete trust. TOO LATE NOW, Now that it is too late, BUT SPEAK UP a “good many people of the Dallas School District are deploring the loss of a possible swimming pool, for which designs had been incorporated into the plans for the new Junior High School. A good many people are also writing in, to compli- ment the school board upon a wise decision not to spend the money. We get it all, here at the Dallas Post. We ask that you keep your letters short, otherwise there is difficulty in finding space for them. The complaint which we published last week in Safety Valve would have been twice as effective if half as long. 7 It is much harder to write a short article than a long one. It’s like a speaker who is limited to ten miffiites. He can compress an hour’s worth of platitudes into a short space if he is watching that minute hand. Dallas Kiwanis Festival Of Mesic Finals of the Second Annual Ki- | wanis Music Festival held Satur- | day night, showed the Trumpet Trio of Dallas High School taking fifth | | place in stiff high school competi-| | tion, and an honorable mention for | | Alto Sax player Robert Morgan of Dallas. | Trumpet Trio members are Larry | well repre- | a fresh- | Wilkes College was sented. James Ferrario, man. is accomplished pianist and | vocalist. He took first place in the | College Open. | Second place went to the Per- cussion Trio from Wilkes, and an Bilan. Charles Tes M. and Mrs. Herbert Lee Jr., of | | Harveys Lake, announce the birth | jof a son April 6, 1968, at Neshitt; Brian Charles weighed | six pounds, eleven and three | quarters ounces upon arrival. Book Club Postponed Back Mountain Memorial Library Book Club is postponing its April | meeting from the Monday fry Easter to the following Monday, April 22. | Bethlehem, | division honorable mention to clarinetist | John Vanderhoof. A tenth grade student from Peck- | ville, Edward Polochick, placed first in the high school division. He has played © with the Scranton Phil- | harmonic, the Niagara Philharmonic, Ballet Symphonies of Scranton and and was a winner in | Earl, Tom Vernon, and Tom Shaver. 1 1966 and 1967 Baldwin competi- | tions: Second place in the high school went to Robert Hall, | Wilkes-Barre; third, to Andrea Lu- kesh. Exeter; fourth to “The Chosen Few” from Meyers High. 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