i ) 8) ® VO Ub RY el 2 AVA | NL No. 18 J ES OR 1 V1 AV I SSS J Se os i ID AY A Ss eB VAN a So I Dallas, Pennsylvania BR LAV VAN AY Ea = (D1 @) | 50 years ago, a quiet VE Day MORE DALLAS PosT THAN A NEWSPAP NSTITUTION | a gR, A COMMUNITY I 5 CENTS PER COPY | Back Mountain FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1945 Foxhole Reader : | vol. 55, No. 19 William Phillips Was | \ Survivor Of Destroyer | y sunk Off Normandy Phillips. 21. seaman th killed } rst william class, and of Italy and Fran in action in the g rations accor ; i : BS received the oe i lowing v-E Day by his payer = 0 "|| and Mrs. Henry Phillips © a veteran of the inv ce, has been Far Pacific | ding to 2 Naval Star Route. Date of hi i is ¢ the action in which he Jost h 0! caled by the Navy g96-word tel in a . Department mn eof bis requestings that the nam ship be kept Ss He was a her during her last action Receives Award Woman S Club s death or the i Air is awarded the in aerial CO®~| a. 4 Nicely, Lehman, egram itorious bat” ecret for security Force in Italy. Class of 1942 wed the foot ormer seaman Oc- Seaman Phillips “ 1 ib- nical Sergeant. the medal awar at the \ 8 Celebrates End B of War Quietly V-E Day Sorbered 0 By Knowledge Pacific War Is Yet To Be Won Back Mountain ells and horns al announce- had end- : — Honors Mothers At Annual Tea More Than 175 Women Aftend May Meeting ) a 1 To Held In Shavertown || ge More than 175 women attended Mo! hter r in Europe her and daug | ment that wa :r horns the annual mot b held in cars blew their s Woman's Clu ed. People il fire truck drove &- tea of Dalla dnesday evenin ; ik House. Mothers of Club mem bers and member | Woman's Club an | were guests. and the Dall : rb iny weather helped to cu Te he biggest reason : Mrs. ; but t ss meeting, enthusiasm, was the know- At a short busine foe ti ’ \ Milford Shaver oH ell! i ne i the Bacific the fighting r the sale May ~'~ ge were open mage fo tollowing places whers : nie Treb-| continues. robes Te: 1 services. VAN gave the OF re left: Trucksville . Here Pic. dge of | day for prayers see a on iness GIR age may fasy lie Eo d on the € laces of bus T/SGT. JOSEPH mm 2 and Mrs. Vin ilcox is seen seaté January 12 Although most De closed, the T/Sgt. Joseph Girvan Medal for “mer-|' 0 McGuire. ntaining | including the Dallas Post s usual. hy apie oe and the as Post co! Ph.M. Harold Roberts, | bank, the hools worked 2 ing the October | sc : 2 picture of| Lehman Schools obse : ie Post! wi e purchase of 2 i eading his with the p radent, then went © rved the day War Stam] E. Manzo at a Lewis, Kunkle, Mrs. Col. 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Air : and three German edo-| 88 2 Ma Bombardmenth eh in the po A Pacific. i songs 2nd |! ines asion the Cole Was torp tor | Liberator Heavy chern Italy, has acts will be made P special service of song one oe chased the submarin€ Ho | Grou based in ig Air Medal for i Florence Crump, © 1 h an Band in the evening. i A PART, i i ed a When she came been awarded tI eat” and hes of the War Loan Drive for th e Im Services were held in Ji the three churches on the ton-Mt.Zion-Orange hae : the morning by, Rev. ar hert and Waele T swrie the rank of Tech- ub. ures e in the same manne { 00. ota of $8,000. a short address of welcome sident. the oldest mother | Musician Clnbh member d at qu . nt | After s Will Prese Hy the pre Sy o - Senintr CANTER a) 4 de by his grou gl. 8B ee States, The original V-E Day received low-key play in The Dallas Post. According to the story, the celebration lasted only about 15 minutes. | Girvan saile With Pacific war still on, it wasn't a big deal By JACK HILSHER Post Correspondent On May 8, 1945, soon to be 50years ago, anevent took place which put an end to a terrible war, a war which had produced almost 767,000 U.S. casualties, including over 177,000 dead. This significant event, history records it as “Victory in Europe” or “VE Day,” was the signing of surrender documents by a Ger- man general named Alfred Jodl. It took place at 2:41 a.m. on May 7 and became effective at 11:01 p.m. the next day, after much stalling on the part of a German admiral named Karl Doenitz. Doenitz had been appointed as head of Germany by Hitler shortly before Der Adolf fired a pistol through the roof of his An Honor Roll you may not have seen By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff KINGSTON TOWNSHIP — Anyone driving up the Dallas- Harveys Lake Highway has seen the Honor Roll, which lists the names of people who served their country in wartime, on Memorial Lane in Dallas. Unless they're old-timers or very observant, they might not know about Kingston Township's Honor Roll, which once was displayed in the entrance hallway of the King- ston Township High School, and now hangs in the lobby of the See HONOR ROLL, pg 10 with JodI's hemming and haw- ing, gave him the ultimatum of unconditional surrender on both fronts (Russians for a change “They were sending back those with 85 points or higher, based on a set formula, and I had 83. I had to wait a bit, but I knew I was heading for a short furlough and then training for B-29’s and the Pacific. So why get excited?” Lamar Sharpe Trucksville “break off all negotiations and seal the Western front,” thus preventing any further move- ment to avoid Russian capture. Doenitz immediately stopped the stalling and had Jodl sign. No one was to break this news until after the official announce- ment, but an AP correspondent named Ed Kennedy - breaking a promise from all newsmen - sent word of the surrender to the U.S. and Times Square promptly went nuts. You've probably seen pictures of the ticker tape del- some time. In April and early May it was all the Allies could do to avoid running down the pa- thetic hordes of both soldiers and civilians who were desper- ately trying to get behind Allied lines and avoid the dreaded advancing Russians. Hundreds of thousands of German troops began to sur- render and Eisenhower, fed up mouth. The admiral, in an- nouncing Hitler's death on the radio, told the German people that Adolf had died “a hero's death at the head of his troops!” Deception came rather easily to most Nazi party heads. Word that Hitler was gone quickly erased the German sol- dier’s will to resist. That resis- tance had been feeble at best for See VE DAY, pg 10 POST PHOTO/GRACE R. DOVE HIDDEN MEMORIAL - Two Kingston Township residents, Air Corps veteran Francis Youngblood and municipal building caretaker Harry Owen, show off the Kingston Township Honor Roll in the lobby of the municipal building. fully agreed) or the Allies would By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff Voters in the Lake-Lehman school district will find a crowded ballot when they step into the voting booth May 16. Nine candi- dates are vying for five seats on the Lake-Lehman school board in the primary. Lake-Lehman candidates are elected by the regions where they live. Region I comprises Harveys Lake, Lake Township and Noxen Township in Wyoming County. Region II is composed of Ross Township and the middle and southwestern districts of Lehman Township, while Region III in- cludes Jackson Township and Lehman Township's northwest district. Adding interest to this year's election is the Lake-Lehman Tax- payers’ Association, formed in 1991 as a grassroots organization to obtain the best, most cost-ef- Arena friend, foe make their case By GRACE R. DOVE Post Staff BACK MOUNTAIN - With groups campaigning for and against the proposed Luzerne County arena and backing huge voter registration drives, a record number of voters is expected to decide in the May 16 primary whether or not to allow the county to build the facility. Two Jackson Township resi- dents are representative of the opposing views. “The arena is abinding referen- dum,” said Mike Warner, a Lake- Lehman school board candidate and member of Taxes No, a group which doesn’t want the county to use public money to build and maintain the arena. “The voters are about to make a huge, whop- ping mistake if they approve it.” While Warner and Taxes No don’tbelieve it's Luzerne County's job to build and operate an arena, former supervisor Joe Stager changed his mind after hearing a presentation by Rep. Kevin Blaum and attorney Anthony Lupas, and now supports the project. A convert The country’s newest 30 mu- nicipal arenas, similar tc the one proposed for Luzerne County, are operating in the black, making DISTRICTS \/12 0 \Viay & 0 9 nameson Lake-Lehman primary ballot fective education possible for the students. Gary and Patricia Gold, John Tasco and Marcy Lathrop were among the founders who had held several meetings during the fall of 1990 before formally organizing the group a year later. : “A board member had told me that a25-mill taxincrease in 1990 was just the beginning,” Patricial Gold said. “When we asked what we could do to stop more tax increases, he told us to fill the room (with an audience). So we did.” : Four years later the Lake- Lehman Taxpayers’ Association has grown into a force to be reck- oned with, seating members Pa- tricia Gold and Allen Moss on the board in the 1993 election and sponsoring four candidates this year: Lois Kopcha, incumbent See PRIMARY, pg 9 “We must take this chance to create jobs for our children’s and their children’s future.” Joe Stager Arena supporter money through reserved box seats and anchor groups such as hockey teams, Stager said. Ifthe arena lost money, it would cost Luzerne County taxpayers an average of $15-$20 a year in a+ worst-case scenario, he added. “That's not even a carton of ciga- rettes, a case of beer or a night with the family at MacDonald's,” he said. : “We must take this chance to’ create jobs for our children’s and their children's future,” Stager said. “We can't guarantee any- thing — there are no guarantees in life.” Although conceding that many of the jobs created would be serv- ice jobs, he said that some of the bigger businesses which have relocated to the area don’t pay much more than the minimum wage and don't provide benefits. See ARENA, pg 10 Hl Celebrating 70 St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Shavertown slates special service to note an anniver- sary. Page 3. 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