SECTION A — PAGE 2 THE DALLAS POST Established 188% 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 re, Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association < Member National Editorial ‘Association = Member Greater Weeklies Associates, Inc. cus Managing Editor and Publisher ...... Myra Z. RISLEY Bditor ... 5. An, reese Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks Social Editor Sports Editor Mgrs. FREDERICK ANDERSON Mgzs. Doris MALLIN Tabloid Editor... vaviciipsiveess CATHERINE (GILBERT Advertising: Manager ................. Louisr MARKS A non-partisan, liberal progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Thursday morning at the Dallas Post plant, Lehman Avenue, Dallas, Pennsylvania, 18612. 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 — Scouteén’s Store; Shawaneses — Puterbaugh’s Store; Fern- brook. POLITICS . . . THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME “Vote early and often” used to be the slogan, in the days when names on headstones in Mt. Greenwood ceme- tery commonly appeared on the list' of registered voters, and all you had to do to vote again at any poll was to change your appearance slightly by wearing a different hat or discarding your tie, or turning your coat inside out. Both major parties entered wholeheartedly into the sport, with no holds barred. Voting was strictly for men. Women didn’t go near the polls. Broken whiskey bottles and broken heads followed the elections. There was one party, which shall be nameless, that offered certain people a bottle of whiskey -and a dollar bill if they could demonstrate that they had NOT voted. Col- lection was made the day after election. Sometimes a party saw to it that certain voters be- came quietly too drunk to stand on election eve, and that the hangover lasted all of the following day. And of course there was that famous story about the electioneer who neatly defeated an opponent by walking into bar after bar, announcing that he was a candidate, giving the name of his opponent as his, and buying him- self one glass of beer. When he walked out, he left in the bar a covey of disenchanted voters, all of them with a consuming thirst and a desire for revenge. Politics . . . it’s the great American game. From now until November, it will be open season for kissing babies and shaking hands with the great unwashed. SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO SHUT UP To Residents who are swondering why the Dallas Post carried nothing about the short-lived strike at Natona Mills in last week’s issue: There are times when too much. publicity acts like an Australian boomerang. Too much publicity at a time when feelings run high and labor and management have their problems, can serve to fan the small blaze into a conflagration which will spread like wildfire. Natona is an institution which has added a great deal to the welfare and the well-being of the area. Strikes, allowed to blossom, divide a community right down the middle, as in the case of the Linear Strike. The only thing more virulent than a strike is the congregations of two warring churches clawing each other to bits. 1 Any time the Dallas Post can help ease a tense situa- tion by keeping its mouth shut, it hopes to be able to keep it shut. There are plenty of times when it has to speak, and speak sharply. Instant news has its drawbacks. small occurrence into a big one. newsworthy than peace and quiet. It can blow up a Calamity is always more Only Yesterday It Happened D: 30 Years Ago Regulations were issued by Har- veys Lake Chief Ira Stevenson, rela- | tive to camping at the Lake. Before | a tent could be pitched, campers | were ordered to clear it with the | Chief. Lake Silkworth adopted the same measures. Most campers, said | Stevenson, were welcome, but every | summer there was rowdyism: among | the uninhibited, and a ‘certain | amount of petty theft. Irem Country Club had a new | | manager, William G. Scott succeed- | ing E. A. Pine. Mundy promised the area that | the Luzerne By-Pass would be start-| ed within a month. State lighway | | Department was ready to call for bids. The Back Mountain had been waiting for a long time, its traffic threading its way through the bottle- neck of Luzerne. | Proposed addition to Dallas Bor- | ough High School was being studied by State Department of Education. Talk of possible consolidation in the area was a factor, though plans had | | already: been approved by Harris- | | burg. Republican committeemen strong for Arthur: James, candidate for | Governor, did not favor ex-Governor | | Remember | bond issue of $50,000 for construc- | School, DON’T BE CAUGHT WITH YOUR LICENSE DOWN | Whether it's a big dog chained outside as a watch dog, a child’s pet, or a lap dog which never touches his pampered toes to the green grass, they all need licenses, says John Wilson of the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Wilson, the State dog law enforcement officer, says you'd be astonished how many folks in Luzerne County neglect to buy licenses for their dogs. How many people right here in the Back Mountain skin by without licenses. It’s a safeguard to owner and dog, as well as a con- tribution to the tax pot, says Mr. Wilson. If a dog wearing an up-to-date license is picked up by the police, the officer has a moral obligation to find out the name of the owner and get in touch with him be- fore taking legal steps. A drive is now under way to search out all stray dogs. A dog without a correct license on his collar is a stray, and liable to be taken. There is another safeguard about the license: a dog- napper is not so likely to take a licensed dog as he is one without a collar. Dog-napping is not as prevalent in this area as it is near the big cities, but there is always the possibility. The fine for dog-napping is considerable. - Pay it or spend thirty days in jail. Mr. Wilson says there are 19,000 Luzerne County residents who have not procured licenses. If a resident has a tiny Pomeranian, it is just as necessary for him to procure a license for it as if it were a mastiff, one of those outsize meat hounds. Folks move to the country so they can have dogs, but it is up to the owners to see that the dogs are not a nuis- ance, that they don’t tear up theneighbors’ flower beds, that they don’t bark all night, and that they are licensed. So watch it. You have been warned. DID YOU VOTE? So, primary elections are over. Did your favorite candidate get the nomination? Are you disappointed? DID YOU VOTE? If you didn’t, you bought it by not bothering to go to the polls. a | 10, Lehman Horse-Show for July 8. | mond C. Malkemes. Pinchot’s bid for support. Lehman Township's proposal to take over Hillside Avenue at Har- veys Lake as a township road, was okayed by the court. Improvements | | were already under way. Bi-County League listed eight teams: Vernon, »Dimmick, Jenks, Noxen, Beaumont, Dallas, East Dal- | las, Carverton. Don Gross was man- | ager of the Dallas team. Joseph Polacky, Dallas Post- master, invited students of Dallas Borough and Dallas’ Township high schools to compete in a model air- plane building contest. The prize was to be a trip by plane over | Dallas. Russell Smith, manager of Smith's Flying Service at the Forty Fort Airport, was cooperating. Daddow-Isaacs Post was asking | for names of deceased veterans, in advance of Memorial Day. Dash Dixon? Little Buddy ? Detective Riley? See you in the funny papers. Hamburg was 12% cents a pound; sugar 10 pounds for 46 .cents. Shavertown's new’ theatre: was about to open, with Radio City Revels as first night attraction. Dan ! Shaver was jutifiably proud of his | contribution to the entertainment world. Television was still only a | dream. | Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Phoenix celebrated their 55th anniversary. It Happened 20 Years Ago Six girls were in the running for | | Lehman May Queen: Betty Ide, Priscilla Abbott, Marie Beline, So- | phie Kasko; Neva Edwards, and | Marilyn Edwards. At Dallas Township, Mildred Bor- ton was to be crowned May Queen. Kingston Township defeated the tion of an addition to the High to house music room and | cafeteria, and take advantage of | a State and Federal government ap- propriation for lunches. Dallas Township and T.ehman were operat- ing successful cafeterias. Beaumont | also. Library Auction was set for July Dallas firemen were seeking for scrap. A drive for metal following closely on the heels of the annual | Borough Clean-Up Day. Kingston Township Vets contrib- | uted rare blood type for James | Durkin, who needed almost daily | transfusions. This was before the days of the Blood Bank and the Bloodmobile. Negative blood was hard to find. Lehman and Jackson considered organization of a joint school board. Anniversarv: Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Hilbert, 3rd. Ross Township voted a $30,000 bond issue for construction of ‘a school to replace six one room schools, It Happened 10 Years Ago The Recession was not affecting growth of the area, real estate and building were both holding up. | Paul Monahan, retiring president | of Back Mountain Toastmasters | § Club, pased the gavel to Gerald Dettmore. | William Florop was named man- ager of Natona Mills. Mrs. Edwin Roth was named Mrs. | Wyoming Valley, the third from | the area. Former winners were Mts. Charles Eberle and Mrs. Alva Eggleston. Mrs. Milton Franks, Harveys Lake, rescued three men from drowning, | | casting a line from her motor boat | and towing them ashore. | Hollycourt Starbright, Robinsin’s | Kennels, won at Timonium. 2 Married: Mary Lou Weigel to Bae) i THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1968 PE ESE RES BDI NEESEEESNES KEEPING POSTED April 17: McCARTHY ADVOCATES DUMPING Dean Rusk to denote changes in policy. LBJ AND PARK of Korea, agree on policy, meet- ing in Honolulu. MAYOR DALEY tempers his pronouncement on “shoot to kill” in case of riot. * * * April 18: CHARGED WITH MURDER, Eric Galt. War- rant out for arrest of presumed slayer of Martin Luther King. NATION-WIDE PHONE STRIKE. - LBJ AND EISENHOWER confer in California. * * * April 19: BOMBING MISSIONS, all below 19th Parallel, mount to 145. CREW OF PUEBLO on T-V. Looks like a care- fully rehearsed program, with captain and all crew members saying they've been naughty boys, they won't do it again, please let us go home. Language stilted. UNITED STATES says it will not ransom the crew, it's blackmail. TORNADOES IN ARKANSAS, everywhere. : ISRAEL AND JORDAN at it again. CABOT LODGE named Ambassador to West Ger- Fr many. freak weather * * * Weekend: KOREAN INFILTRATION stepped up. UNITED STATES tells Hanoi Warsaw not accept- able for peace talks. What happened to that state- ment “Anywhere, anytime?” BANK RATES on the up and up. tighter money. to curb inflation. PHONE STRIKE CONTINUES. No hope of early settlement. Nation not hurting too much at pres- ent, because of automatic dialling systems. ERIC GALT identified as prison fugitive James Ray. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S BROTHER savs march on Washington will be “not to demand, but to command.” PLANE CRASH in Southwest Africa takes 122 lives. Big shipment of diamonds remains unre- covered. U THANT leans toward Paris as center for negotia- tion. Hanoi says it’s either Warsaw or Cambodia, period. ! Higher rates, RUSSIA, BRITAIN, U. S. combine efforts to halt nuclear arms expansion. * * * 22: SHIRLEY TEMPLE, day-before-yesterday’s darling of the films, still thinks she might like a nolitical career. Grow up. Shirlev, vou're 40. BOMBER DOWN, presumably over Thailand. Much opposition to the fated 1-11 model. * * * 23: METHODISTS AND U. B. join forces, largest Protestant denomination in the world, 11 million. VOLCANO IN PHILIPPINES erupts, inhabitants flee. yi U THANT INSISTENT that Paris is the spot for talks. BOBBY KENNEDY puts on an old fashioned cam- paign among the Hoosiers, whistle stops, banjos, The Wabash Cannonball. USS INDEPENDENCE joins the swingers, aban- "dons shuffleboard, girds itself to become the hot- test thing in luxury liners. IN CHICAGO, folks stand in line eight hours to buy tickets to pianist Horowitz concert. Who says culture is dyiny? BUILD-UP of enemy forces around Khe Sanh and Hue. BRITAIN ASKS total sanctions against Rhodesia. DOW-JONES AVERAGE up, stock market making good gains after slump. TORNADOES RAVAGE Midwest along Ohio River Valley, twelve known dead, hundreds homeless. Situation bad in Kentucky. MORE FIRING across Jordan. : * * * 24: UNITED NATIONS meet to discuss nuclear arms ban. NATION BEGINS TO HURT as telephone strike continues with no hope of early settlement. April April April PARAMOUNT THEATRE — WILKES-BARRE Now — 2nd Big Week VOTED ‘BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR’ —National Board of Review All the violent beauty of Thomas Hardy's immortal love story! Re Ny JULIE CHRISTIE TERENCE STAMP PETER FINCH ALAN BATES © aebecomsrey FREDERIC RAPHAEL: "oa tiie Ny RECTED Br JOHN SCHLESINGER CRTD rm 27 PanAVISIONS an METROCOLOR MGM vw oF ST A . ¥ You're Home Free At The Library You're home free at Back Moun- | tain Memorial Library today, if you | | have books which you have been | | putidag off returning: because they | are long overdue. | All Greater. Wyoming Valley li- bravies are . cooperating in this | drive to get ‘bocks off your shelves land back to the Libra-y. You can even drop your hocks off at any of the libraries, and they | will be forwarded to the library | | where they belong. Participating libraries are: Back ! | Mountain Memorial, College Miseri- | | cordia, Hoyt, King’s College, Mill | Memorial, Osterhout, Plymouth, West Pittston, Wyoming, Wilkes- College, and King's College. Safety Valve Sixth Grade, To Vietnam April 2, 1968 Republic of S. Vietnam .S/Sgt. W. F. DeRemer RA 13594061 | 586th Signal Co. | APO 96 294, San Francisco, Cal. | Dear Sir: | I have been in Vietnam for the | Editorial note: ‘our Kiwanis Club. We are proud last 6 months, and I just received a number of letters from the 6th | | grade class of the Dallas Elementary school. I am asking you to please print my answer to all those letters, | since it is almost imposible for me, | timewise, to answer them myself, | one by one, as much as I would like to. | - I also want to thank you for | sending the Dallas Post over here, it is good to find out what is going | on back home, so keep the paper coming. | Here is a list of the boys and girls, who wrote to me: Ellen Parker, . Chip Koehl, Randy Kolb, George | Otto, Bill Perry, Maureen Yaka= boriea, Chris Bittenbender, Megan | Delaney, and Keith Gordon. | I really enjoyed your letters, and | | would love to hear from all of you again. But it is very hard, to an- | swer that many letters. To answer | some of the questions you have | asked me, | The war is going as well as pos- sible, the people over here have been, and are doing their best. We | all believe in what we are fighting for, and will keep on doing so. We also know that most of the people back home, feel the same way, our country has always believed in free- dom, and we have always fought for that belief, and we are doing 'so now. I will try to answer your letters as time permits, but right | now a lot of things are happening | over here, as you probably know’ | {see I i | before the Safe April 8, 1968 DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA Valve | April 10, 1968" 4, WE'RE PROUD OF YOU Dear Editor The Kiwanis Club of Dallas wishes to thank the entire staff of the Dal- las Post for extra-ordinary coverage of our Music Festival. Of fifty-six editors approached in a twelve county area, twenty-two offered advice and assistance in publicizing the Kiwanis Music Fes- tival. ‘We received many favorable spots in these papers - but it was | the Dallas Post which week after week carried the Festival activities on page one. Many of thecontestants reported that their first knowledge of the | contest came from items appearing in their newspapers. Thank you, Vincent D. Roman Publicity Chairman It’s our town and of both. Whose Responsibility ? To the Editor: We were shocked and disappoint- ed to find on the Democratic ballot for the upcoming April 23 primary the name of a dead man, Edward A. Maziarz, listed first among the candidates for alternate delegate to the Demccratic National Convention. There was no indication on the ballot that Mr. Maziarz had died | on March 1st, and therefore could not be considered as a genuine candidate. State law provides that the en-| dorsers of a candidate who dies be- fore the primary can replace him primary with a new candidate. Although there has been plenty of time, the deceased has not been replaced. Instead, if Mr. Maziarz' name receives the most votes, the Democratic County Com- mittee will appoint a substitute for him after the primary. —Concerned Democrats Editorial Note: Lots of precedent on this kind of thing. Was yeur Democratic committee on the ball? | And if not, why not? Whose re- sponsibility is it to inform head- | quarters ? —Hix. CARD OF THANKS Harry wish to thank friends and neighbors for cards and gifts which they re- ceived while patients in General Hospital. enjoyed. frotn the newspaper. - Thank you again, boys and girls, | knowing that the coming genera- | tion cares, helps a great deal. Yours truly S/Sgt. Bill DeRemer "1.3 gun, Siglin and Clark Oliver hey were appreciated and ! Gentlemen: { We read in your column ‘Only ' Yesterday” 30 years ag> a note of the burning of the Schoonover grist- mill at Center Moreland. This is very interesting to us as we have purchased’ the ‘Schoonover Home- stead adjoining the ruins of this gristmill. We have 5 told that this home was called the “Mill House.” As we are vitally inter- ested in any information about this property we wonder if you have any additional information on. this home or mill. Sincerely yours, William R. James April 5, 1968 Dear Sir: | 1 received my first copy of the Dallas Post today. It really made | me feel good und close to home lag I read the paper. | I am Chief of Section of number I am new at the job and | felt insecure, thanks to my men and | the paper, my spirits are going full | strong once again. i The Battery consists of five M- 1105 towed howitzers. The battery larrived in Vietnam October 1967. | Our base camp is located 12 miles i north of Chu’ Lai AirgForce Base. | It is most likely, thi material is | very uninteresting. However, I feel | much better talking about this place 110.000 miles from the “World” as | the GI's refer to civilization as the USA. I appericate receiyng the Post , and I'm impatiently ting for the | next copy. | Sincerely, | Sgt. David T. Higgins | | Btry. B. 1st Bn. 14th Arty. | 198 Light Infantry Bde. APO San Francisco - 96219 FOR QUALITY PRINTING } | THE DALLAS POST | 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- {4 tion, ‘and federal income and estate taxes. | 283-231 - THE BIGGEST SELECTION OF MASSEY-FERG USON LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT WE HAVE EVER OFFERED largest tractor manufacturer! TRACTORS! 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