——— FE PAGE TEN M y Typewriter Talks bythe Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Lover of Trees There is a plant whose name is philodendron, meaning a lover of trees. It twines around a tree as if its very life depend- ed onit. So far as I know it is not 5 Pal at . A TE ER ATE Oy mn EI ERA rE Fab iri yuan ry Fond rete EERE ER EE ET ne Fa FEN EEE REE LT ee ag at Se at LE SE ETRE en st ew BI NN BE RR RR FUE meine ii Sr BLL i a parasite but simply loves a tree for its companionship and support. There are several ~ varieties of this plant, and I do not have any special one of it in mind. It is the idea of its being named a lover of trees that appeals to me. For I, too, am a lover of trees. Trees Grow! When we came up here in 1969 to begin our life of retirement there were not many trees on this place, but we were sur- rounded by them. One year we bought a clump of three paper- white birches. They were not white then. The trunk and limbs were covered with a beautiful reddish brown bark. I think it was about three years before those stalks began to show white. We had set the clump in our side yard where the un- derlying land is mostly rocks. It has been a wonder to me how trees set there could possibly find soil and water enough to grow. But finding nourishment for the trees has not been my prob- lem, for they were equipped to find for themselves. And down went the roots. How they must have squirmed and pierced and hoped for what they were born to require. I have had occasion to plunge my crow bar into the yard in order to dig holes for various plantings. The steel bar was not equipped to find its way downward. I had to move.it, try another spot and finally, find a place where the bar could make a hole. Brown becomes Paper-White Finally that clump of shiny brown stalks became white with curling bark and almost trying to shed paper of its own accord. 1 know what could have been done with that bark, for I have seen strips of the bark peeled from that kind of tree. It can be used for writing paper of a kind. It can be separated into thin sheets. One’s imagination can easily picture Hiawatha taking a large enough white birch tree and winding off from it a sheet big enough to be shaped into a canoe. It would be waterproof, for the bark is oily. In fact when I was in Scouting, I learned that a piece of white birch could be lighted with a match even when wet and was a help in starting a campfire. So now our clump of small birch trees is a clump of sturdy white barked trees. Fashioned From Roots One of my hobbies used to be to see in my mind some possible shape that could be formed from a queer angle of roots. From some pieces of yellow TRUCKSVILLE Cub Pack 155 will meet to- morrow night at 7:30 in the edu- cational building of Trucksville United Methodist Church. The group will hold a Halloween party at that time. All cubs are to be masked. Girl Scout Troop 630 will meet in the Trucksville United Meth- odist Church Monday at 4. . Back Mountain 4-H Club met in the municipal building Friday night. Paul Beard pre- sided at the business meeting. Plans were completed for the fall and winter program. Mem- bers will attend the achieve- ment banquet to be held at O’Lears in Hazleton, Oct. 25. Mr. and Mrs. Vought Long, Grove Street, will return this weekend from a motor trip through Florida. Some of the cities they visited are St. Augustine, Miami, and St. Petersburg. Lucy Cortright is a patient in Town Nursing Home, 15 Lombard St., Philadelphia. Miss Cortright is a former resi- dent of Harris Hill Road. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Harris, Cliffside Avenue, entertained Saturday evening. Richard N. Fedock, 134 Gramgorna Drive, has been awarded an engineering scholarship by the William T. Morris Foundation. He attends Bucknell University and majors in chemistry. Robert Griffiths, a member of the freshman class at Drew Stanley Hozempa attending lectures Dr. Stanley Shavertown, is in Corning, N.Y., this week, along with other optometrists from New York, Pennsylvania, New Hozempa, Jersey, Quebec and Ontario, at- . tending lectures at the 31st New York All-State Optometric Con- gress. The Congress, in addition to providing a forum for the ex- change of information among optometrists, presents lectures by leading authorities of the optometric profession and other related disciplines. University, Madison, N.J., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rober Griffiths, Clearview Avenue, last weekend. David Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Newman, terrace Avenue, was confined by illness to his home several days last week. Harvey Sink, Harris Hill Road, is convalescing at, ‘home following an illness. William A. Shuster, executive director of Model Cities Agency, Wilkes-Barre, was recently notified by the Greater Dela- ware Valley Regional Medical Program of his appointment to serve as a member of the tech- nical committee on health care for the poor. Mr. Schutter resides with his family on Lime- wood Road in Midway Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Knorr, Harrisburg, will visit her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. S.J. Lawson, Car- verton Road, this weekend. They will also visit his sister, Julia Knorr, S. Memorial High- way. Mrs. Paul Bently, Ackrin, Ohio, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Forest Slagle and family, Highland Avenue. Friendship Class of the Trucksville United Methodist Church met in the educational building Tuesday evening. Mrs. Donald Anderson presided. Beatrice Williams led devotion. Ruth Merriel gave the bible lesson. James Pichert, a member of © the freshmen class at Bucknell University, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pichert, and family, Holly Street. William Hopkins Jr., Spring- garden Street, was: guest of " honor at a family party -. marking his birthday Wednes- day. Mrs. Harry Hunter and infant daughter have returned to their home at 18 Harris Hill Road from Nesbitt Hospital. Carla DeGluseppe, Chase Road, is spending a month in Italy. She will visit Lt. (jg) John DeGluseppe while there. Penn State offers engineeringreview Charles R.:Meck, assistant director for Continuing Education at The Pennsylvania State University’s Wilkes-Barre Campus, has announced a Professional Engineering— Electrical course will be held at the campus in Lehman begin- ning Nov. 12. The Professional Engineering Review program is for practic- ing engineers who are planning to take the professional engi- neering examination for state registration in Pennsylvania. ~The sessions, which meet for The 3 whi | i fat + 21 weeks on Thursday’s from 7 to 10 p.m., will cover those phases of engineering with which the engineer should be familiar in order to adequately prepare for the state examina- tion. The review will consist of a systematic coverage of typical problems and pertinent engi- neering and scientific prin- ciples, fundamental instruction in professional ethics and engi- neering economy, and familiar- ization with the examination format and procedures. birch I made a pair of bookends with the curly yellow bark forming a decorative texture. And from small branches I have made paper knives, letter openers. On time I saw in my imagination a peculiar kind of animal shaped by the cutpoff stem and roots of a maple tree. When I dug up the thing and kept my imagination alive I fashioned it into a door stop which rears its ugly head with grinning mouth, and holds aloft a forked tail behind its camel- like humps on its back. We gave it an impossible name coined from a combination of turtle neck, camel-hump, walrus hinde. I cut eyes in its watchful head. There it stands holding open the door between our dining room and kitchen. A cousin of mine who is an expert at naming things said it was a skeuomorph, a word not yet in the dictionary at that time! The Grain of Wood A friend of mine a long time ago knowing how much I likes beautiful wood gave me a big slab of wood which had been sawn out of a mammoth burl of a maple tree. It ‘was not then a thing of beauty, but I took it to a lumber yard (I had to hunt around to find one with a fast enough planer) and asked the man to plane it on both sides. Of course the planer knives had to work across the grain and on one side the knives snatched bits of the wood out and left rough spots. But the other side, especially after I gave it a good dressing down through a drum- sander, became a handsome piece of wood with what looked very much like an Indian head in deep red in the middle. Even- tually I had it sawed into shape for a small table and when finished with fine shandpaper and varnished was and is a thing of beauty: Now whenever I see a large burl on a maple tree along the road I think how such a bump on the tree might turn out to be another thing of artistic loveliness if sawed through its cross-grained body and finished. Along the Highway Many times I have almost gasped with the wonder and thrill of a huge oak tree which has been liverated from the confines of a forest to spread and spread its arms of strength out across the road as if to protect travellers from danger from the skies. Within the forest an oak unable to spread its wings sideways grows straight up and up in its insatiable yearning for the light of the sky. Such a tree becomes long oak boards from which flooring can be made or church pews or other furniture. A young Englishman once told me how extravangant the English con- sidered us Americans for the way we used oak for church seats. When I drive up the road from Carverton to Orange I gasp at that lovely spreading oak just up the road from the Grange- hall. And when I drive up route 92 there is another old great- grandfather oak tree guarding the highway up near the Har- ding Hose House. Flaming Colors I do not need to call attention to the extravagant colors of our time of year in this region. You can count on Columbus Day being the time if ever for the pigmentation of the leaves to be at its most brilliant best. Marines plan birthday ball Marines in the Scranton and: Wilkes-Barre area will cele- brate the 195th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps, Nov. 6 at Convention Hall in Pittston Township. The celebration will include guest speakers, cocktails, dinner and dancing. The even- ing’s program will commence with the serving of cocktails at 7 p.m. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. and then the Marines, their families and guests will take part in the traditional cutting of the Birthday cake. There will be dancing until 1 a.m. The uniform for Marines will be dress blues or winter service, with civilian suits for former Marines and civilian guests. For the ladies, cocktail dresses or evening gowns. For tickets, reservations, or ‘information, call the Marine Corps Reserve Training Center at 825-6811 extension 270-270 or 822-1493 after, 5 Pp, m. and ‘weekends. E THE DALLAS POST, OCT. 22, 1970 cut from BON ELESS ROUND bottom round ROAST BOTTOM ROUND Swiss Steak Boneless Rump Roast .. 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