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EDITORIAL
a desperate need
[1 The frontier town melee which occurred in Dallas
recently is additional evidence (if indeed additional
evidence is needed) that the Back Mountain com-
munity can no longer tolerate the horse and buggy
police protection to which it is accustomed.
When it became apparent that seven or eight
carousers were becoming increasingly abusive to
passersby and showed little intention of leaving
Dallas’s Main Street peaceably, special policeman
. Willard Newberry attempted to contact Dallas
Borough police. The policeman on duty, Sev New-
berry, was attending a hearing in Kingston Town-
ship and was not immediately available. Attempts
to contact Police Chief Honeywell at his home were
unsuccessful. Finally, Dallas Township police were
summoned and, fortunately for everyone concerned,
responded quickly to the call for help.
That little damage and few personal injuries
‘actually resulted from the fracas should not cloud
: In a time of emergency, Dallas
gency been a matter of life and death, there would
have been no police protection for Dallas Borough
“citizens.
The plea for a unified police force in the Back
‘Mountain community has to date gone unheeded.
Petty political posturing on the part of a few individ-
“uals has blocked the efforts of Dr. Hugo Mailey and
responsible community leaders to establish a joint
police force in the area. This is doubly unfortunate
as the vast majority of Back Mountain citizens
want—and deserve—the police protection that can
be provided only by such a team effort.
Must we endure further crises before acknowl-
edging the near desperate need for a single Back
“Mountain police force?
family income
[1 After we pay our Christmas bills we don’t feel very
affluent, but the truth is that Americans are doing
better financially now than ever before. That’s the
word we get from a ten-year survey of American
family income. ;
: The average family now has an income of $8017
v
3a year, an increase of more than 571 percent over
our median income 10 years ago. On the other hand,
the cost of living in that same period rose only 15%
Pp percent; so we're much better off on the whole.
This survey was made by Meinhard-Commercial
Corporation, the country’s largest factoring firm.
That is, Meinhard provides more than a billion dol-
lars a year in financing to manufacturers, distribu-
tors and retail stores. It also provides these custom-
ers with advice on marketing and research.
According to Meinhard’s annual study of family
income, nearly 70 percent of today’s families have
an income in the big middle range between $4000
and $15,000 a year. The largest income group is now
- the $7000 to $10,000 bracket. Meinhard says these
families should be the main sales target for Ameri-
can industry in the next few years. Until recently
the largest income group earned $4000 to $7000, but
now the higher bracket has taken over.
Income in northeastern Pennsylvania rose dra-
matically during the past decade. Effective buying
per household, and total for Luzerne and Lackawanna
Counties showed steady, economic progress, though
both counties still remain below national averages.
; In Luzerne County the total effective buying in-
come for 1960 was only $569,661. By 1968 it had risen
to $841,213.
~ Effective buying income per household increased
from 2.5 percent annually in 1960 to 5.2 percent in
1968. The effective buying income per household the
first year of the decade was $5885, while in 1968 it
had climbed to $7884.
Effective buying income is wages, salaries, in-
terest, dividends, profits, and property income minus
federal, state and local taxes.
All reports show a growing share of American
_ families with high incomes, along with a decreasing
percentage of families in the lower income group.
This present decline in the percent of lower income
brackets further amplifies the improving income
potential for area residents.
Tie DALLASO0ST
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president, advertising; J. R. Freeman, vice presi-
- You can guess the president’s
plans sometimes outside ‘the
White House. If a couple of fire-
trucks wait in the rear he will
be taking off soon in his heli-
copter. If a TV truck is parked
to the left of the portico of the
flood-lit mansion, he’s holding a
press conference. As you show
your pass you note the noble
loveliness of the edifice behind
the black, leafless trees. ‘‘Gen-
tlemen, the President of the
United States,” says the attend-
ant, and all the gilt ballroorn
chairs scrape, and George and
Martha Washington look down;
and the crystals, of the three
immense chandeliers twinkle in
kleig lights." 2
This. is the eighth press con-
ference in 11 months, the fewest
of any president in modern
times (FDR had two-a-week in
. peacetime). You speculate on
the president, the nation arid
the era. Fifty million peoplé are
watching on TV; it’s gfnazing.
Fe has no notes; he stands
alone. He is poised and confi-
dent. Call it glib if you want,
but would you'like to stand there
batting back answers to quick
questions? His best defense is
that there’s no. follow-up; he
turns to the next questioner
quickly. He makes a couple of
boo-boos, Marines have built
the Vietnamese ‘250,000 pa-
godas (about one to every 50
people) ; it is corrected to 25,000
next day. His figure that 35-37
percent of gross-national prod-
uct now goes to taxes is wrong,
economists say; it’s around 30
percent—a difference of maybe
$50 billions in a trillion-dollar
economy. But so what? It’s a
remarkable performance. He .
keeps his cool throughout. Yes,
even when asked about Martha
thissa ‘n
The liberal brethren and sis-
tren had better run to their
typewriters to write a letter to
the editor calling for the Gaf-
fer’s scalp, because today’s
preachment is going to offer
the opinion that white people
have just as much rights as
colored people; further, that
certain colored people are in-
fringing on the rights of white
people.
What is irking the old gentle-
man this week is the newspaper
report that in Chicago, a cer-
tain Rev. C.T. Vivian chose the
Christmas season to issue the
following manifesto: ‘Effective
immediately, at 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
curfew is established for all
whites in the black community.
No whites will be permitted to
enter the black community
for any reason during those
hours and all whites inside the
black community must
leave by the 6 p.m. deadline.”
His unilateral ukase went on
that *‘ a black tribunal will be
convened to try Negro judges,
policemen, politicians and any
other individuals who have been
and who are presently cooperat-
ing with the forces of power in
this city (Chicago) to the detri-
ment of the black people.”
The Reverend who pulled in
his horns somewhat on the fol-
lowing day, allowed that there
would also be a black investi-
gation of the ‘murders’ of two
Black Panthers who tried to
shoot it out with the police and
that policemen operating in
black neighborhoods will be
watched by community resi-
dents.
I will digress at this point to
mention that I have read state-
ments that the two Panthers
{ were shot in cold blood by the
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ticket to a ‘sinking
Mitchel, the talkative wife of
the attorney general.
She has burst upon the na-
tional scene as suddenly as Mr.
Agnew, and is giving insights
into her austere husband’s pre-
sumed thinking en route. It was
she who coined the phrase over
TV “liberal Communists”
against the anti-war demonstra-
tors. The Washington News
broke the story that she had
undertaken personal telephone
lobbying pressure for Judge
Haynsworth on senators’ wives.
They were hopping mad, ac-
cording to an amplified account
by another reporter .the next
day. Vote for Haynsworth she
threatened, according to one
angry senator’s wife, or she
would ‘‘go on national television
and defeat him.” Her words
were ‘strong and colorful,” ac-
cording to the assistant of Sena-
tor Gore (D) of Tennessee; the
wife of one of the senators used
sharper language.’
Mr.” Nixon shrugged off the
incident wryly in a comment
that will win the sympathy of
many husbands, but he started
trains of thought about. the ad-
ministration as he went on. Mr.
Mitchell, in Mary MecGrory’s
phrase, ‘was the ‘‘architect of
disaster” in the Haynsworth
nomination. campaign which
showed a striking insensi-
tivity to Senatorial ritual; the
three top Republican leaders
all voted against Haynsworth.
The objective Associated Press
. (Dec. 10) begins a piece—*‘Pres-
ident Nixon’s troubles with
‘Congress are being compounded
by his failure to win support
from key members of the
Congressional Republican lead-
ership.”” Proposals mentioned:
Haynsworth, civil rights, anti-
poverty legislation and a key
provision of the tax reform bill.
Where is the locus of Republi-
can uneasiness? In Fortune (no
liberal Communist sheet, that)
James ‘Reichley explores the
administration’s plan to capture
the South most exhaustively set
forth in The Emerging Republi-
can Majority by Kevin P. Phil-
lips, 29, special assistant to
Mitchell. The bonds that would
hold this new alliance together,
Reichley says, would be (1) dis-
like elsewhere for the populous
Northeast and (2) “fear of
urban blacks.”
The President has publicly
taken issue with the idea, Reich-
ley notes, but with Phillips’ re-
taining ‘‘his position at the at-
torney general's side . . . it
seems permissible to question
whether the administrationlead-
ers truthfully reject his theory
(which Republican Sen. William
Saxbe of Ohio calls ‘a ticket on
the Titanic’), or merely are
‘chagrinned that he has spelled
it out with such candid cyni-
cism.”" Hasn't Mr. Phillips
really done for Mr. Nixon ‘‘the
i same dubious service that
. Machiavelli performed Tor,
‘sare
Borgia—describing,, ..in
naked words what his hero had
all along been doing by instinct.”
Indeed, a lot of moderate Re-
publicans worry about this ticket
on the Titanic.
The press conference zooms
on. As many as 20 reporters
jump up at once, trying to catch
the President's eye. Now he is
talking about taxes ; threatening
to veto the Senate’s Christmas
tree tax bill. The mind goes
back; how did this business of
inflation start, anyway?
It started, we believe, be-
cause the United States was
willing to fight the Vietnam war,
but not pay for it. The crucial
year was 1965; it was then that
the four-year boom needed a
tax increase to cool it down. But
the official theory of Vietnam’
was that it wouldn’t cost much,
and would be over by Christ-
mas. Mr. Johnson didn’t want
to ask for taxes and he was vir-
‘tually certain Congress wouldn’t
give them, or the public accept
them. Economists pleaded in
vain; LBJ waited more than a
year, Congress another year
after that. The taxes were too
small and came too late. Infla-
tion took over.
The nation has made generous
sacrifices for other wars: re-
strictions, controls, higher
taxes; not this one. The country
was willing to fight it; not pay
for it: It ducked the burden in
two disastrous ways, inflation-
ary IOU’s (i.e., went in debt)
to raise cash, and postponed up-
keep on physical plant and hu-
man values. It's like owning a
home: you can always ‘‘save’’
money by not puttying windows,
fixing drains, painting walls.
..S0Cial structure.is.like that too,
~ we have been ‘‘saving’’ billions
by ‘not ‘meeting -the frightful
depreciation costs of big cities,
or the human costs of poverty.
If it’s a home, it decays; if it’s
a country, it decays, too, as
class and racial tension in-
crease.
Some of these ‘‘social IOU’s”’
of Vietnam are already coming
due. This is the worst of all pos-
sible times to cut taxes, but
Congress is bent on it, mostly
for the rich and middle income
groups. If the unpatriotic ghetto
rebels, there's always re-
pression.
thatta: biack disobeaience infringes
on equal guarantees to whites
police, one while he was asleep;
and that I doubt it very much,
but even if true, the Panthers
had turned a building into a
fortress, including such weapons
as a machine gun, protected by
sandbags and that two police-
men were shot when they broke
into the building. If these two
. were sleeping or not attempting
to defend themselves, they were
' cowardly Panthers.
As I hinted, the following day
the Rev. Vivian retracted his
brave words and said that ‘‘no
one was ordering anyone to do
anything.” This came after the
sensible black leaders of Chi-
cago criticized him or openly .
disavowed his ideas. In fact,
four black aldermen submitted
a resolution in city council de-
ploring the curfew and the reso-
lution was approved by a 46-0
vote. The Chicago Urban
League, apparently a reason-
able and fair-minded Negro
organization, issued a statement
calling the curfew ‘unilateral
and provocative’ and that ‘‘they
do not approve or condone it.”
If my inferences are correct,
the decent, sensible and law-
abiding Negroes are in the
majority and not only disap-
prove of defying the laws but
realize that-decent, sensible and
law-abiding white people want
them to share the fights of
citizenship in full measure.
Full measure means that
race should be no factor in
granting or withholding any of
the privileges of citizenship, but
it also means that the individual
must accept the responsibili-
ties of citizenship and obey the’
laws, regardless of the citizen's
color.
Many white people do not
obey them and are accordingly
treated as public enemies.
Colored people who do not
respect and obey the laws must
expect the same treatment.
People like this Rev. Vivian
should be aware of this, as ap-
parently he was not. :
The paradoxical aspect of his
hysterical manifesto is that he
was making a plea for self-
imposed segregation of Ne-
groes, much the same as the 50
colored girls at an eastern col-
lege, who demanded a separate
dormitory for themselves and
others of their race.
Do the Negroes want to be
segregated or don’t they?
I suppose that some of them
do and some of them don’t,
being human individuals with
poetry corner
differing tastes; and I firmly
believe that each viewpoint
should have an opportunity of
doing it the way he or she wants
to do it.
Whites have the right to live
with other whites of their own
particular brand and the same
right should apply to Negroes.
But neither white nor Negro
has any right to break laws,
nor to defy the police. The po-
lice, remember, come in both
colors too. : ‘
The Black Panthers are not
doing anything to help solve the ~
racial problem in this country,
nor is the Rev. Vivian.
continued on PAGE 10
by F. BUDD SCHOOLEY, M.D.
Dallas
Man is more. than a speck in the land,
His destiny is influenced by a higher hand.
His life is bound by love,
And redemption from above.
His being more than microscopic dust,
In a universal God that he can trust.
A worthwhile purpose in humble labor,
A meaningful objective in his behavior.
In the past, today and hence,
Conscious pattern of his existence.
Man's spiritual goal was ordained
To accomplish more than was attained.
The finality of death is not all,
The inner spirit hears the call;
To guide him on the final journey home,
God is there and he is not alone.
From
Pillar To Post
‘By HIX
Hap Hazard and Hix ex-
change insults freely, making
scathing remarks and counter
remarks on paper. Hap always
gets a reply through the mail,
because he invariably encloses
a stamped self-addressed en-
_ velope, a dodge which a good
many business firms would do
well to adopt in the interests
of speedy returns and enclosed
checks. When I get a bill with
an addressed envelope, I remit
within a week. When I get a bill -
with a self-addressed envelope,
with a stamp already in place,
the mail practically glows red
hot and sends up smoke signals.
This accounts for the speed
with which Hap is answered,
every time he addresses a let-
ter to Chipmunk Crossing.
Native thrift will not permit
Hix to waste a stamp, and as
Hap licks them in place with
a fervor which causes them to
stay put, they are of no value
on any other envelope. They
resist steaming off. I've tried.
I quote . . . and it is Hap
Hazard who is not talking:
“You must have removed
the black patch over the eye
to enable you to write me such
a snide note. I may be on the
string bean side, but I do have
the capacity to take aboard
an awful lot of food. Last night
I had dinner at the Alexanders,
and here is what Jeannie turned
out:
“Flounder, thin sliced and
rolled, baked in milk and but-
ter sauce; tiny onions with lima
beans, done in cream sauce
and delectable; a cole slaw fit
for the Waldorf, all downed
with a cauldron of milk. After
that came a brown Betty mit
cream yet, and contrary to your
accusations, I had to leave half
of the brown Betty on the
saucer and could not take it
home with me, seein’ that I
love brown Betty and have it
so seldom.” (How about a dog-
gie bag, Hap?)
“I see by your one-time rag
that the community at large
is going to give you a whoop-
de-ding. On such occasions they
normally present the victim
with a hand-painted carpet bag,
and instructions to get going.
“®ham ‘réminded of ‘the big
party ‘the! Sanitation « Depart-
ment in New York City gave
a very old Italian who was
retiring after forty years on
the force, pushing a'cart with
a barrel on it and wielding a
big broom and shovel. His con-
terees decided to give him a
FORTY YEARS AGO
A. C. Devens, Kunkle flour
and feed dealer, purchased the
Dallas Lumber Company build-
ings and announced plans to
establish a modern flour and
feed business in them. At the
same time another feed com-
pany, Brown and Fassett of
Tunkhannock, announced that
it had begun operations on a
new plant to be located op-
posite the Glen View Coal Com-
pany on Demunds Road at
Fernbrook.
The astronomical program
. for 1930 included two eclipses
“of the sun and two of the moon;
* thereturn of two periodic comets
and perhaps several new ones;
a gradual decline of sunspots
and solar activity. As a result
of the sunspots’ decline better
radio reception was promised.
Somewhat prematurely, a
tDallas Post editorial noted that
because Christmas business for
1929 had been as good as a
year before the economic out-
look for 1930 looked brighter
than it had just a few months
before. The reason people did
not cut down on their Christmas
shopping, The Post related, was
because President Hoover's
‘business conferences in Wash-
ington had restored public
confidence in the soundness of
the nation’s industries.”” With a
decade-long depression still to
come, the optimisim reflected
in this prediction would soon
seem hollow indeed.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
Luzerne County officials
jumped the gun and listed as
delinquent in payment of taxes
hundreds of people who had in
fact paid them and were em-
barrassed by publication of their
names. i an
Credited with the delivery of
over 3000 babies, Dr. H. A.
Brown of Lehman was honored
big party, to which they in-~
vited Mayor Laguardia, hoping -
he would come.
“The Mayor did come, and
after the banquet he gave a
glowing account of the devotion
of this old Italian to his job,
and his long years in service.
At the end he called the A ;
man up to the speakers’ ta 1
shook him by the hand, and
presented him with a nickel-
plated shovel. The little old
Italian was overcome, and with
tears streaming down his face
he blurted out, ‘Tanks, Mr.
Mayor, I'll remember youse
after every shovelful.’
“With all good wishes to you
and the big black eye-patch, I
shall always look forward to
receiving your caustic com-
ments about my failings. I hope
you will hang around these
diggings for a long time and"
complete the work you have:
under cover, and when the
alarm rings off at seven o’clog,
you can thumb your nose a# it
and turn over for a final snooze.
One good turn deserves: an-
other. But a friend of mgge
once told me that when. ias
wife did one good turn she had"
all the covers.
“When I heard you were in
the hospital I thought maybe
you had been expecting, though
I hadn’t noticed it especially
the last time I saw you in
that outsize tartan house gown.
Afterwards I read that there
was a baby in the house, but
not yours except by remote
control.
“When you stop playing the
part of a pirate, I'll drop around;
this time sans chicken.”
(Forget the chicken, Hap. It
was the wretchedest little
chicken I ever saw in my life,
taken away from its mother
far too soon. About the size of
a brook trout, but very tasty. It
ended up in chicken Hoodle
soup, noodles by courtesy Wi
Mrs. Jimmie Kozemchak. The
ravens are at it again. All
small offerings thankfully re-
ceived. :
Happy New Year and every-
thing. ; %
by the American Legion for
having typified during his 34
years of service as general
practioner the highest ideals of °
the medical profession.
The Governor Arthur James
Mobilization Crusade against
the downward spiral of unem-
ployment was to be be headed
in this area by Mrs. G. A. \.
Kuehn. a J
Luzerne County relief pay-
ments were up sharply over
1939.
To meet the challenge of
providing warm garments for
refugees of World War II, *®
las Junior Woman's Club started
a Red Cross sewing group. Mrs.
Charles Jones was in charge.
Died: Mrs. Frank Mazur,
Trucksville, and her sister Mrs.
John Walsh of Edwardsville
died of peritonitis within two
hours of each other; Sarah
Thomas, 83, Noxen ; John Hayes,
72, Idetown.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Dallas Township High School
had alargerepresentation at the
Farm Show, both band member
and vocational agriculture .
dents. Andrew Mattie and Wil-
lard Race won gold medals
for projects in state-wide com-
petition: Mattie for five acres
of tomatoes and five of cab-
bage, Race for two acres of
cucumbers.
- Fred Anderson pressed for
reinstatement of James A.
Martin as supervising principal
at a lively meeting of Kingston
Township school board, as a
first step toward complete ac-
creditation of the high school.
Dallas Borough PTA was. the
only PTA in Luzerne County to
win the certificate for achieve-
ment of goals during the previ-
ous year.
Died: Amy Young, Shaver-
town.
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