¥ t * | 3 SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1968 DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA “vote. 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 yearn $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, Cures Managing Editor and Publisher Bditor hs. TR ni Social and Sports Editor . . . . Tabloid Editor Inc. CRE Myra Z. RisLEY Mgrs. T.M. B. Hicks Mgrs. FREDERICK ANDERSON CATHERINE GILBERT Louis MARks Black Side Of The Ledger : Your Bloodmobile needs your support tomorrow at Dallas Junior High School. The hours are 11:45 to 5:45. The Bloodmobile needs you, and you need the Blood- mobile. If it were not for the concerted action of the Red Cross in establishing the Blood Assurance Program, and you people of the Back Mountain in freely giving the life- blood which will be yours for the asking if an emergency should arise, the whole program would fail, and the cost of blood would be something like $50 a pint. Help keep your community on the black side of the ledger by appearing at the Junior High on Friday. Don’t Fail To Vote In Primaries Folks are lackadaisical about voting in the Primaries. They are willing to turn out for the November elections, when enthusiasm is keyed to a high pitch, but they fail torealize that they can’t cast a ballot for a candidate, no matter how popular, who is not selected in the primaries. His name will not appear on the ballot. "April 23 is the time to let your voice be heard. The Primaries, in many respects, are more important than the November elections. And this year there are some important questions to answer, outcome of the Constitutional Convention. Do not pass lightly over these questions. Do not wait until you are behind that green curtain in the voting booth to ake up your mind. It is your privilege to vote as you please, but please - It is your money which has financed the Constitu- tional Convention. YOU ARE THE STATE. If you fail to state your opinion on these questions, the Constitutional Convention has wasted your oney and its time. 2 Question 1 deals with legislative apportionment. A yes vote on this means equal voter representation in House and Senate districts, and machinery to reapportion every ten years to compensate for population changes. Question 2: A Yes vote means more realistic debt limit, financial planning, and audit control: Question 3: Specific definition of property tax ex- emptions for religious, charitable, veterans and cemetery use, the local government to receive a share of utility ross receipts tax in; lieu of local real estate tax] ,on operat- g properties of public utilities. Question 4: Home rule organization for counties and municipalities, local governments enabled to work to- gether to meet area service needs. Question 5: this concerns the judiciary: unified court system under supervision of Supreme Court, reelection of sitting judges based on merit, reorganization of minor judiciary system which voters may replace with commu- nity courts, right of appeal in all cases. Board with power to recommend discipline and suspension of judges. Manda- tory retirement of judges. Voters to decide in 1969 on appointment of statewide judges by Governor from a panel. The last question is the knotty one, and the ‘one which should be given the most careful study. Arguments pro and con. A yes vote on question 5 will bring sweeping changes in its wake. A NO vote will preserve the status quo, if you prefer it. In many cases, mandatory retirement of a wise and experienced judge might remove from the bench a man who is rendering outstanding service. Many voters will prefer to retain the present Justic of the Peace system. We, the People, have the inalienable right to vote as we please. * We, the People, are not even required to ponder these questions. We can pull a lever thoughtlessly, or we can be cognizant of what we are doing. This is Democracy in action. It is remarkable how well it balances out. The Word Is No Longer Taboo Probably you will never have cancer. Probably you will never be obliged to look on help- lessly while a member of your family wastes slowly away. The chances are great that you will never have to breathe a sigh of utter thankfulness when the end comes, and ‘the tortured body is at rest. The chances are that ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, research will pin- point the causes of cancer, and a completely simple answer will be found, a preventive that will rid the world of a prime killer, as has happened in the case of diphtheria and smallpox and polio. All such research costs money. The drive for funds is under way, and the need it great, For your children and your grandchildren, give now. There was a time when the very word Cancer was taboo. E There will come a time when your grandchildren may say, “Granny what WAS Cancer?” The Hendwriting On The Wall If you live in one of the more populous sections of the Back Mountain, the sewage disposal question is breathing down your neck. No matter how well your septic tank functions, and no matter how much frontage your property boasts, you are going to cope with the sewage question eventually. Face it, it is going to cost money, and there is abso- lutely nothing you can do about it. It’s the old dilemma: if you can’t lick ’em, join “em. The septic tank, given ten more years, will be as out-dated as the family two-holer, or the Saturday night bath in the washtub. The more rural sections, not yet built up, will not be obliged to invest in sewers for some time to come. Only Yesterday 30 Years Ago | shot himself while Carlton Averett's neck was also broken in fall from a ladder in his own garage. Eiether injury could have been fatal. Eleven year old Anna Costine, |: School, | | Franklin Township, was burned to | | death in the ruins of her home on | blaze | | pupil at the Michigan | Star Reute. Cause of the was unknown, as the house had no electricity and the furnace was not in operation, Dutch Mountain plant completion. Capacity of 45,000 brics per day. | mostly by local capital, |in- the planning. National neared master. Polacky. mail pickup, William, Corcoron, H. B. Arnold, Fred Youngblood, “Addi- Sheldon Drake,” Mil- Airmail was ‘new : to Great celebration . in | son Woolbert, | ton ‘Perrego. | the area. | Forty Fort, location of the first air- | | port in the Valley. [ Mrs. Flora Billings, | Dallas. | Mary | successful ‘operator of: big faim, | the Dorrance Reynolds Goodleigh | dairy farm. Murriel Hill, -well- known’ lecturer, a real dirt farmer. Daily wall. | Bowmans Creek branch line was at main standbys. The first locomotive in Dallas chugged through the sparsely set- tled community in 1886, three years before the Dallas Post was founded. Albert Lewis. a big lumberman of the area. was the branch first president. tracks humming. It Happened 20 Years Ago It was Daylight Saving time adopted it. As always; there were a few who claimed their cows wouldn't get up an hour early.. Premature summer the day after | an onion snow. Bernard Gerrity, band director at Lehman, led his players’ to! victory for the third successive year in ia | competition in Class C Music and | | Forensic League. A ‘Cub Scout Pack was in’ process. of formation in Dallas. i Paul Hilbert opened a store : in Kunkle. Women's dresses were hin length. and resembled meal. sacks. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Laux ob- | | served their” Golden Wedding “An- | | niversary. | June. Swan married to, Charles | Fisk. |. Mrs: Margaret Cottle bedame., a | Beensed judge for dog shows. 7 It Happened: new Back Mountain Shopping Cen- ter in Shavertown. Four genera- | tions of Eyerman family turned the first spadeful of earth. And work was being speeded on | the Institution at | Chase. | hard at it. Correctional (It developed that the | correctional angle faded out little | | by little, and the prison aspect | | came to the fore. Maximum secur- ity). Joe MacVeigh's Norti | Berti was Burgess. ‘Rev. Robert D. Yost was getting | | the Community Service Award from successor. | | | { { | Back Mountain Protective Associa- | [ tion. Exhibiting at Kingston Armory Dallas Outdoor Theatre, Common- | wealth Telephone, and Dallas En- | gineers. Top honors at West Catholic | Science Fair went to Ann Black, Carol Rinehart, Margaret Mascali, and Eddie Girvan. | Bill Rcod was setting up his own bottled gas business. Recipients of safety awards from local merchants were James Taylor, Carol Lahey, and Larry Carson. In the news were Dallas-Frank- lin-Monroe schools, and Westmore- land High School. Sound strange? That was before the union district. Poor luck on the first day of trout season, as 1,000 anglers en- countered ice at the lake. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE No use calling about that chain-~ drive tricycle, it's gone, as of last Thursday noon. The seller was gtill getting hopeful calls on Easter Mon- day, ] § Shavertown boy, 16, acciden! ally | hunting cats. | output | Financed | two years Airmail Week was to | be observed by a cachet said Post- f ‘In charge of air- | 79; died in Weir was in ‘the news as referred to her as | freight to Dallas was dis- | continued. The handwriting on the | Lehigh Valley Railroad. on | its 50th anniversary, announced the | cutback to freight every other day. | its peak of productiveness at the | turn of the century, when logging | and ice transportation were its two | agent at Stull. arcund 1903; recol- | lected the long trains that kept the | There wete two | pascenger trains daily in the early | again, and the majority of towns | 10 Years Ago Construction was started on the! Five hundred workers were | Borough Council’ delaped naming | were Caddie LaBar, Kunkle Motors, | ls wnwu KEEPI STED P Book Club News The Book Club will hold its first : meeting of the spring season Mon- + day afternoon at 1:30 in the Back April 10: U THANT hopes talks on Vietnam will start shortly. LBJ SPEAKS, says he has sent twenty messages to Congress on relief of the poor, black and white. working on 75 fires. KANSAS CITY fires, negroes snipe at firemen Five negroes shot. Missouri National Guard called out. FERRY BOAT IN NEW ZEALAND, 46 still miss- ing, 51 known dead, of passenger and crew total- ing 722. ton, schools closed. CIVIL RIGHTS BILL passes Congress. FIRES RAGE in Newark, 300 homeless. In Tren- In Cleveland, negro mayor asks negroes to help keep the cool. MAYOR LINDSAY asks crime commission be re- convened. * Cong around Saigon. King, * April 11: VAST EXPANSION of forces driving back Viet * LBJ SIGNS Fair Housing Bill. FBI IMPOUNDS white Mustang belonging to Birmingham man. Looks like car described as be- longing to suspect - in murder of Martin Luther HEAT WAVE in Midwest. * * * ori 12. TYPHOON JEAN, up to 175 miles per hour, at New Zealand. ment. Korean head. LBJ WILL GO to Hawaii, delayed visit with South Guam. Same savage storm that sunk the ferry in U THANT in Paris, cordial atmosphere, no state- WARSAW AND CAMBODIA suggested as scene | : or Rangoon. * dents and police. bridges destroyed. g * Weekend: THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS at Calvary, thous- ands at Wailing Wall in old Jerusalem. FBI WORKING on the King slaying. WEST GERMANY leftist riots, clash between stu- of peace talk. LBJ prefers neutral site, Geneva * BOMBING OF . NORTH VIETNAM stepped up, AT AGE OF 107, former slave thinks he won't get : married again, | enough. La hecklers, soon quelled. separate on command. hours, 6 minutes. * * LEN * * ; | April 15: LBJ FLIES TO HONOLULU to meet with heads line's | of state and military advisors. Demonstrations by Mr. Culbert. station | seven wives in succession was * SOVIETS MATE SPACE VEHICLES, unmanned, LONGEST BASEBALL GAME in history last 6 * Sor 16: FOUR AMERICAN PLANES lost in raids on panhandle, PRISON RIOT in Raleigh, N. C. Inmates want more. pay, more free time to watch TV. Dead, 5; injured, 75. | 3 * LONDON BRIDGE sold to anonymous American bidder. Will be used somewhere in Arizona, Was falling down by inches, over a span of many years. I: : BOBBY VISITS Sioux Indian reservation. go EDNA FERBER, famous novelist, dies aged 82. * : wk i Api] 17: SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT in Honolulu to Sk . confer with LBJ. NORTH KOREAN terrorist raids continue. Lie dis POPULARITY POLL shows LBJ way un there, ne following ‘his attempt to deescalate the War. his dropping out of politics. and the TV view of his Ei grandson learning to walk. § +» “MEMPHIS GARBAGE being collected again after LER long strike of. workers. | | . Library Has A Variety Of Books #18 You've hock longing to build 4" 'vacation house, learn the secret of “bonsai, or get some ideas for a more attractive - home, the Back | Mountain Memorial Library may be able to provide some help. The decorative arts ‘is the gFubject of a | special collection now ‘at the Li- brary. ; “My Favorite Things” is a semi- autobiography which touches on | various phases of housekeeping and entertaining by Dorothy Rodgers, Requiem Mass Today, Mrs. Andrew Fischer Services for Mrs. Andrew P. Fischer will be conducted Thursday | morning at 8:45 from the funeral home at 243 South Washington | Street, Wilkes-Barre, followed by |a Mass of Requiem at 9:30 in St. | Thorese’s Church. Burial will be at Mt. Olivet. | Mrs. Fischer died Tuesday morn- |ing at her home on Ridge Street, | Shavertown, after a brief illness. The former Anna Craven was |born in Kingston. During World | War 1 she was employed in Wash- | ington as a special telephone opera- tor for the US Government, and | was awarded a citation for services rendered. Thirty-three years ago she moved to Shavertown, where she became a member of St. Therese’s church and its Altar and Rosary Society. She leaves in addition to her husband, a daughter, Mrs. James Regan, New Goss Manor; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Thomas Tracy, Sugar Notch. A brother, Michael, Binghamton, N.Y. She lost two sons, Eugene and Andrew, and a sister, Mrs. Walter Aicher, of Easton. DALLAS COUPLES DINNER Dallas Methodist Couples Club will enjoy the annual Continental Dinner Saturday evening at 6:30 at the church. Chairmen are Mr. and | Mrs. L. L. Richardgon. | “How To | the facilities of the Osterhout Free | | | wife of the composer. There are a number of books on needlecraft, in- | cluding a “Guide To Altering and Re-Styling Ready-Made Clothes,” | “Rug Hooking and Braiding” and “Crewel “Embroidery.” Plans for new homes, including one on cabins and vacation houses, home repair and vomodeling guides | .are all’ represented. Inspiration and practical help for fe interior decorator will be found | ‘‘Hatje’s Design For Modern Liv- ing” “Van Dommelen’s Decorative | Wall Hangings” and Hockman’s Refinish Furniture.” Those who prefer to do their dec- | orating outside the four walls want | to read the Rockwell's “Complete | Guide to Successful Gardening” and | the “Art of Home Landscaping” by | Garrett Eckbo. This and other rotating collec tions on a variety of subjects have | been made available to the Back | Mountain Memoria! Library and to other local public libraries through Library. Wilkes-Barre District Li- | brary for the continued develop- ment of public library service in Luzerne County and part of Wyo- ming County. ‘National Players To Present ‘Lute Song” National Players will present “The Lute Song” for College Miseri- cordia students in Walsh Audi- torium on April 26, the first major activity for the students who return from Easter recess on Monday, April 22. National Players are one of the country’s leading touring reportory companies who have performed throughout the United States and in Ttaly, France, Germany, Korea and Japan. Performances have been at the white House, by special invitation, and in Off-Broadway theaters, as well as on television. Starring are Philip LeStrange and Kathleen Klein, | shoulder and out the chest, leaving | Requiem | Mountain Memorial Library Annex, | Mrs. Ornan Lamb presiding. | | Hulme Daron will show slides of | his travels. | Hostess committee, headed by | Mrs. Carl Henderson and Mrs. A. J. | Rutherford, will have as members Mrs. Ben Edwards, Mrs. James! Alexander, Mrs. Harold Titman, and Mrs. Williard Seaman. George Is Home Again, Eating And Sleeping Mrs. Anthony Bogdon got re- | sults from her ad, as soon as the | woman who had her dog read the | Dallas Post. George had been missing from his | heme on Machell Avenue, and the | Bogdons were distraught. George | looked like a small model of a deer, so he was easily recognized. An ad was inserted in the Post on Wednesday, for: Thursday's publica- tion. : Mrs. Foss, out on .the Meeker Road, had seen him two days earlier. On Wednesday, she noticed | that he was injured. Somebody | had taken a pot shot at him, just because it was nice spring weather | and the trigger finger itched. When Mrs. Foss phoned the Bog- |- dons, the entire family piled into | the car and drove out. Mrs. Foss | opened the barn door. and there | was George, wagging like crazy. | George is doing fine. The bullet | | passed through the flesh of ‘the | All he has done |. Mrs. Bog- a clean wound. since getting home, says don, is eat and sleep. Famed Lecturer For Library Week Both the Back Mountain Memorial Library and College Misericordia are cooperating with the Northeast Chapter of the Pennsylvania Li- brary Association in presenting a lecture by Stephen Birmingham, author of the best-seller Our Crowd. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at the = Jewish Community Center, Wilkes-Barre, in observance of Na- tional Library Week: The public is invited. Other cooperating libraries are: Hoyt Library, King's College, Lu- zerne County Comraunity College, Marywood College, Mill Memorial leLibrary in Nanticoke; Scranton Li- brary, University of Scranton, Vet- eran’s Administration Hospital, West Pittston, and Wilkes College Library. Walter Hemnebaul, 53 Was Manager At Esso Walter John . Hennebaul, 53, Huntsville Road, died April 3rd at Nesbitt Hospital, where he was ad- | mitted earlier the same day to the | medical service. Mr. Hennebaul was manager of | Birth’s Esso Station in Dallas. Docoratively Speaking The Local Native - of Wilkes-Barre, he at- | tended St. ‘Nicholas School, and upon moving to Harveys Lake with his family, high school at Laketon. | Five years ago he moved to Dallas, | He was a veteran of World War | II, serving in the Pacific on USS | Destroyer Raleigh. He belonged to Gate of Heaven | Church. Surviving are: his widow, the | former Mary Grimes; these children: | Walter Jr. ‘and Mrs. Raymond Strazdus, Dallas; Frederick, Mar- | garet and Mary Jean, at home; six | | grandchildren; brothers and sisters: | Mrs. - Clarence Grey aad Mrs. Har- | 'old Engle, Harveys Lake; Ferdinand | and Charles, Wilkes-Barre. Burial was in St. Nicholas Cem- | etery. following services from the Disque Funeral Home, and a Mass of from Gate of Heaven From— Pillar To Post... by HIX Not too many people are living today, who remember well the sinking of the Titanic on April 14, 1914. People of the present generation cannot visualize a world with- out radio communication, without instant news, without a satellite to flash messages around the world, to appear mirdculously on the home television set. At the time the Titanic went down in the Arctic waters of the North Atlantic, newspapers put out extras all through that perilous night, but nobody could actually conceive of the monster shi eing so badly damaged that it could be lost. The extras held out hope that she could be towed into port stern first, and that the crew and passengers would be saved, delayed somewhat by the collision with the iceberg, but arriving safe in New York eventually. The morning papers dashed all hopes. The Titanic had sunk, and only a fraction of the human freight on its maiden voyage had been rescued. Seldom does a big city newspaper put out an extra these days. News comes so fast that the Television has it before an extra could be rushed through the press and sold on ‘the streets. An extra, in 1912, still cost just one penny, the price “of, the regular morning and evening editions. It was when I was at college in: Baltimore that the momentous news about the sinking of the’ Titanic made’ headlines. More and more details dribbled in, each further bit ‘of informa- tion the occasion for another extra. Small newsboys, bear ing bundles of limp papers, damp from’ the press, were besieged by eager buyers. The Sunpaper did a Tondotfies, business, and the small newsboys profited accordingly. : . - “A Night To Remember” is the hirels tale of the sinking of the Titanic. It is at your local library. r In these days, when catastrophe piles upon catastrophe and the standard of measurement of progress is how many more p&@le are killed on the highway, how many more are lost in Vietnam, how many more rockets are pointed toward the moon, the sinking of a luxury liner might not cause such ‘world wide consternation as it did 56 years ago. ; That was the period when the world was more or less at peace, the time before the great upheaval in Europe, the time w the Russian Revolution, the time before the scientists gave us Stich ter- rible engines of destruction. We could take time to ponder the implications of a tragedy at Our senses had not become blunted by a surfeit of horror. Life rocked along, a well ordered life, with no possible fore- boding about the future. the throat of Europe, but they meant nothing until the rumblings were transformed overnight into the’ snarling reality of the first World War, the War to End Wars, the War, to make the world safe for democracy. The moon was a calm and peaceful satellite, a thin oliver of light in the sunset sky, growing night by night until it sailed majes- tically clear of the hills on the eastern horizon, a remote and placid sphere, changing from gold to silver as it climbed the midnight sky. The splitting of the atom was well in the future. China was a giant, slumbering in the sunshine, far on the other side of the world. Airplanes were in their infancy. The appearance of a plane skimming the roof and rattling the red painted tin, was a signal for everybody to leave the dormitory luncheon tables and crowd to the roof to see the phenomenon pass slowly overhead. Organ grinders with small and wistful looking monkeys in red jackets and gold laced hats, patrolled the streets. sea. It was a different world, the! last of the age .of innocense. A world that was incredibly unaware of the winds of changd¥ Church. SUBURBAN ser PAPERS RESTAURANT L=== at the “Y" — DALLAS : WEDNESDAY SPECIAL FISH FRY S19 * SERVING ® Breakfast ® Luncheon ® Dinner * SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNERS Served all day - from 11 a.m. Moderately Priced * STEAKS e CHOPS e SEAFOOD - © Delicious Filet, of * HONEY DIPT CHICKEN Haddock ff ROAST BEEF : Golden Brown French Fries ROAST PORK ® Crisp Cole Slaw HAM ; : ® Zesty Tartar gluce TURKEY ® Crackers - Hot Rolls Butter TAKE-OUT — if you Cd ! 674-4561 There were already rumblings deep in Service Friday For Mrs. Rulison Evans | Services for Mrs. Marian Bowkley | Evans, wife of Rulison Evans, are scheduled for Friday morning at 11 from the Snowdon Funeral Home in | Shavertown, where friends may pay their respects this afternoon or eve- | ning. Rev. Robert D. Yost will be | the officiating minister. Burial will | be at Fern Knoll. Mrs. Evans, admitted to General | Hospital 3 few hours before her | death, passed away Tuesday night. Native of Pittston and a lifelong | resident of Greater Wyoming Val- | ley, she had lived in Kingston for many years before moving to Hunts- ville a few years ago. She was a graduate of West Pittston High School. Church affiliations were with First Presbyterian Church, West Pittston. With her husband, chair- man of the board of Pennsvlvania Gas and Water Company, she was interested in a wvariet of civic en- terprises, She leaves in addition to her | husband, a son, Robert R .Evans, of Shavertown, president of Pennsyl- vania Gas and Water Company; and two grandchildren. 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