Lebanon Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • Page 21

KIPKIRBV Lebanon Daily Saturday. Juntt, 1973 WAS ACTUAtLY PtAVING GREAT GOLF FOR A Oo KlffBY fS Off THE SAME. mite PfSMQNP RECALLS A GffSAT BUT A GRACEFUL FIGURE TUKHS MUST BE PESMONP'S TAMMY MAYBE I CAM WHAr ON WANTS) EARTH ME TO GO RIDING ON THAT THROUGH WHAT'S IT LOOK I'M PUTT IN YOU DOING PONTOONS ON MY LONG SWAMP! ASM I FV LOOKy.TATER!! VONDER COMES VORE BRflND-SPANKIN'- LEETLE RED MAIL-ORDER VAJAGON GOVERNOR DICK A charcoal burner's sod Chautaqua grounds until about 1900. hut (Foreground) which remained on the CANYON JOHNNY MINK I HAD A WRONG STEER ABOUT A RANKING OFFICIAL BEING IN A PRISON UP NOW Y'ALL COME OVfcR A61N WHEN VORE IN THESE WE'LL UEAVC YOU TO YOUR EDUCATIONAL ME STEW-PINTS. WILL I BE UP KISS1N 'SCHOOL A-Llkfi USUAL BUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TEAIL THEEE 15 ANOTHER ELEMENT OF LOCAL By JACKBITNER Fed Hikes Rate To 6.5 Pet.

JOEPALOOKA PALOOXA AKE5YOLI WILL BE WALKING) COMPARING INTO ATTAIN YOURSELF WELL, GETTING A CKACK AT JOE'S PO VOL) THINK YOU CAN STOP HIM I WHEN THE KING WITH HOW'S THIS FOR A PEMONSTKATIONT? MARK TRAIL LEE, THIS WAS yOUR 6PEAT- GRANDFATHEC AND THIS WAS YOUG fe YOUR FATHEC WAS BROUGHT UP TO BE A AND IT'S HADD FOP HIM TO SEE THE OLD WAYS YOU UNDERSTAND THEY WERE BOTH CHAMPIONS OF THE NO ONE COULD BEAT THEM RIDING LOGS, OR FELLING TIM6EB, OR LOG JAMS THEY WERE THE I GUESS SQ DICK TRACY MR.TRACY, SIR, COULD WE GO OUT TO THE TARGET RANGE AND LET ME SHOOT VOUR REVOLVER? SHOULD JUNIOR RETIRE, SIR, ISTHERE A CHANCE I MIGHT HAVE WIS JOB? DID YOU KNOW THAT I'M TALENTED IN MANY FORMS OF ART? NO. LIKE TO SEE SOME OF MY YOUR INDIVIDUAL HOROSCOPE Look in the section in which your birthday comes and find what your outlook is, according to the stars. FOR MONDAY. JINK 11. 1973 MARCH 21 to APRIL 20 (Aries) There's an advantage in every disadvantage.

YOU will be 1he determining factor and a substantial winner, or needless loser. Kerp vour wils about you. APRIL 21 to MAY 21 (Taurus) Generally auspicious, but your day won't run on its own steam. You will be the pilot, and probably Hie pivot for those with whom you come in contact. MAY 22 to 21 (Gemini) Handle routine before attempting the new or extracurricular.

(Jains indicated in advertising, promotion, written mutter and educational pursuits. JUNK 22 to JULY (Cancer) Don't overplay hand, but stay in there pitching with the best of thorn. The right balance and careful decisions can mean top results soon. JULY 24 to AUGUST 23 (Leo) Do not become involved in matters which do not really concern you. but 1X1 lake an interest in new trends within your own field.

AUGUST 21 to SKPTKM- RKR 23 (Virgo) Mixed influences. Special care needed in experimentation, hastily contrived messages and writings; also transportation. SKPTKMBKR 24 to OCTO- BKR 23 (Libra) You may run into snags or obstacles but you can handle them well. Pep up an old idea, keep your vision broad. Think over past experiences and profit by thorn.

OCTORKR 24 to NOVKM- RKR 22 (Scorpio) Avoid a present tendency toward procrastination, and do not overcrowd your schedule. Re realistic In demands and do not expect the unreasonable. NOVEMBER 23 to DECEMBER 21 (Sagittarius) Planets indicate some complications not easily unravelled. Yet, by diligent process, you will be able to up more than just fair results. DECEMBER 22 to JANUARY 20 (Capricorn) not bocomo discouraged if a pet project hasn't quite worked out especially if you KNOW it was worth the effort.

(Jive it another chance. JANUARY 21 to FKBRU- ARY 19 (Aquarius) Not much planetary help here but. you can, nevertheless, keep this day out of the mediocre class if you stress your innate enthusiasm and slick-to-- itivencss. FEBRUARY 20 to MARCH 20 (Pisces) Look to ambition and lofty inspiration to heip you put ovec most ideas and plans. A good day, under optima's generous influence.

This is the second of a series of 24 articles about Mt. Gretna researched and written by Jack Bitner. The articles will appear in every Friday and Saturday edition during June, July and August. Governor Dick Governor Dick; a name as logs to the burn. One might familiar as Mt.

Gretna. we sa that he worked for a Generations of summerites living. The "fairy rings" have known it as the ridge located so far lie largely in an south-east of Mt. Gretna, the area bounded by Pinch the hike to the top of which has been a pilgrimage for young and old for 9 decades. As it has for perhaps 200 years, Pinch Rd.

climbs the flank of the ridge. It was once a main road to Lancaster. It is also universal knowledge that Gov. Dick was named for a Negro charcoal burner who provided charcoal for the Cornwall furnace from the area. The very name suggests that he possessed a more-than- ordmary character.

Today's column presents what little evidence and record remain of his activities. Just east of Pinch on the fringe of Mt. Gretna Heights, a plaque reads: "Enclosed springhead, 500 yds. in rear, is the probable site of cabin of "Gov. negro slave charcoal burner of Grubb's furnace, Cornwall, who lived at base of Gov.

Dick Hill about 1776 to 1800. Cornwall Furnace There is indeed good reason to believe that Gov. Dick lived at this spot. It has fresh spring- water, and is well located for his activities in the area. Records at Cornwall reveal that he at times worked as a stone mason.

This suggests that Gov. Dick himself may have constructed the neat, sandstone enclosure from which the spring still bubbles. In past years in a huppier, more innocent and imaginative era hikers discovered mysterious circles in the' woods, and were inspired to call them "fairy These rings are uniformly round, perhaps 80 ft. in diameter, with perimeters formed by low mounds. Closer examination reveals these mounds to consist largely of charcoal fragments, lor these are actually sites of charcoal burns.

I have started mapping the location of these rings in the Ml. Gretna area, and judging from the number already located, would expect Daily Cryptoquote Here's How To Work It: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW One letter simply stands for another. In this sample A ii used for the three L's, for the two O's, etc. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are hints. Each day the code loiters arc different.

CRYPTOQUOTES SG EGSCEJEVn VN UVSR TIE X- EU NGX NM VZX QNGUWEQINIU MSEJEGFU NM A 0 CSFXZNV Yesterday's Cryploquole: I HATE TELEVISION. I HATE IT AS MUCH AS PEANUTS. BUT I CAN'T STOP EATING WELLES to discover 50 to 100 in time. This would not be surprising, as it is safe to assume that Gov. Dick worked in the area over a period of years, and a burn did not require more than several weeks plus a prodigious amount of work.

The process consists! of piling a number of cords of hard wood oak, hickory, ash and chestnut into a large mound. This was then covered with layers of leaves and dirt to restrict air to the fire, and the pile ignited in the middle. Perhaps a week later, the wood had been reduced to charcoal, which was hauled to the furnace. There it was mixed with iron ore and limestone and burned in the furnace at high temperature by blasting air into it. The molten iron was topped from the bottom of the furnace.

The only assistance Gov. Dick had would have been a team of mules for hauling old RR tracks and Gov. Dick ridge. The probable site of Gov. Dick's residence mentioned above is within this area.

In the early days of the Chautaugua, two charcoal burner's huts remained intact on the grounds one adjacent to the caretaker's home near the Post Office, the other a few yards from the Community Building. The latter remained until about 1910, and was photographed by Mr. Harpel. It is typical, and clearly reveals the method of construction an inverted cone of logs, like a tepee, covered with sod. These two huts undoubtedly housed charcoal burners who succeeded Gov.

Dick. With respect to Gov. Dick's character and personality, one small window is open to us, and through this, as with old glass, the picture seems distorted. The September 3, 1889 Lebanon Daily News is quoted as follows, in part: "He is no less a person than the original Gov. Dick, who had the honor to be on Washington's staff and did yeoman service in the great revolutionary conflict" "It is not generally known that the Gov.

was at one time a disciple of Esculapius a famous mountain doctor. For every ailment he had a cure, and he scorned drug stores He was a kin relative of the notorious Dr. Eisenborn, of Revolutionary fame Tradition has it that the Gov. and the Dr. were intimate friends and started a congregation, using a barn for their (the article then discribcs how the two broke up in dispute over collections).

"In the life of Gov. Dick we find he was also a weather prognosticator and a walking encyclopedia of the meaning of signs. Disdaining a belief in superstitions, yet the turn of the leaves, the shape of the clouds, the moving of stars WASHINGTON (UPI) an unusually tough move against inflation, the Federal Reserve Board has raised its key discount rate from 6 to 6.5 per cait, the highestsince 1921. The board's governors said in a statement Friday they took the tep' 'in recogniti on of increases thathavealready occurred ii other short-term BI- terest rates, the recentgrowth in money and bank credit and the continuing rise in the general price level." The explana ti on i mpl ied that the governors were unhappy with President Nixon's seeming inability to make a significant dent in the inflationary spiral. It was the fifth time since January that the board had raised the interest rate commercial banks pay for money borrowed from the 12 district banks of the Federal Reserve Sys tern.

The board hoped by makmg borrowing more expensive to play its part in slowing down business investment spendiig and dampen the economic expansion that has pushed prices and economic growth upward in recent months. It was the highest the rate has been set since 1921 when the rate peaked briefly at 7 per cent. The prime borrowing rate which most commercial banks charge their most credit worthy customers now stands at 7.5 per cent, the highestsin- ce the 1969 credit crunch. The FRB action is likely to give the prime rate another push upward. Interest rates are not under mandatory controls under the admnistation's economic stabilization program, although the Committee on Interest and Dividends, headed by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F.

Bums, has pressured bankers through a variety of cost justification measures into keeping their rates down. CF.NSIS One hundred fifty-four patients, including five infants. ADMISSIONS Mrs. Kristina T. Wolford, Myerstown Mrs.

Ruth R. Rigdosh, Wiconisco Mrs. Mary S. Brown, Annville Dennis N. Kohr, Lebanon Herbert M.

Heilman, Lebanon Mrs. Faith P. Barnaby, Grantville Mrs. Donna M. Mease, Lebanon Tammy J.

Engle, Manheim Howard E. Weaber, Lebanon Joseph J. Smith, Myerstown Victoria T. Schaeffer, Corn- had a deep meaning." F.ven with reservations, the above tends to confirm our. suspicion that Gov.

Dick possessed considerable character and intelligence. Since slavery was abolished in Pa. in 1780, he was a free man, probably holding a status similar to that of an indenture servant. In any event, his work as a charcoal burner apparently left him time for various and colorful activities. Any further information from our readers relative to the above will be appreciated.

Hit-Run Mishap A hit-run vehicle struck a car operated by Beverly L. Books, 20. fiOR N. Tenth St. at Twelfth and Chestnut Streets shortly after midnight, it was reported by Patrolman Terrance R.

Spiller Damage to the Books car was estimated at $75. To Crackdown On Cheaters LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) The district attorney is cracking down on slot machine cheaters who are using magnets, yo-yo coins and drills to steal $10 million a year in the state. "There is an increasing incidence of persons cheating slot machines and other gaming devices in small taverns and package liquor am underway in an all-out campaign against those cheaters," District Attorney Roy Woof ter said Friday. He said the cheaters are being trained in clandestine schools and that their "teachers" receive a percentage of what the "students" steal.

One such school, set up in a cabin in the Mount Charleston area, was raided by the sheriff's department several months ago. Woof ter said the cheating devices used most frequently are magnets, which control the spin of the wheels on slot machines, yo-yo coins and drills. "Drilling is most common and successful to cheaters," Woof ter said. In using a drill, a cheater makes a hole in the side of the machine and then attaches a wire to the inside mechanism which triggers the pay-off apparatus. Mrs.

Esther N. Walborn, Jonestown Mrs. Martha A. Shaak, Lebanon Mrs. Cora L.

Koons, Palmyra Mrs. Ruth E. Whitman, Lebanon DISCHARGES Miss Jean A. Sensing, Fredericksburg Robert A. Davis, Lebanon Mrs.

Joan R. Landis, Lebanon Mrs. Ruth E. Houshower, Richland Miss Kathleen S. Laicha, Lebanon Mrs.

Mary S. Fisher and son, Myerstown Paul W. Starner, Lebanon Mrs. Mary Fox, Myerstown Mrs. Ruth A.

Benney and son, Richland Mrs. Sheila M. Elllinger and son, Quentin Charles P. Gaibraith, Lebanon David E. Shindel, Lebanon Miss Susan L.

Gingrich, Cleona David L. Ditzler, Jonestown Thomas L. Baer, Palmyra William E. Voter, Palmyra Mrs. Josephine D.

Flashel, Lebanon William P. Kupp, Lebanon Mrs. Ellen B. Ward, Myerstown Will Continue Their Studies Two local girls have been accepted by the Thompson Institute of Harrisburg to begin studies in September 1973. The girls are: Miss Stephanie Siegel, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Stan Siegel of 1534 Nowlen St. and Miss Joanne Mikoni, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mikoni of 130 Lehman St.

Miss Sirgel plans (o pursue her rarcer in the Fashion Merchandising curriculum. Miss Mikoni will be entering the Executive Secretarial curriculum. Both girls are 1973 graduates of Lebanon Catholic High School. Car Damaged A parked car owned by Ed- B. Pettey, 1022 Orchard Ave received damage estimated at $40 in a mishap at Mifflin and Jones Streets Friday night, it was reported by Patrolman Richard Hevcrling.

The report said a truck owned by N. K. Martin, 1844 Creston Drive, which was also parked, may have also been involved in the mishap. The truck was not damaged..