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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-
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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 |
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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
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