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Ninetieth Year, No. 35 SHICKSHINNY, THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1965 $3 Per Year 7c Per Coptf ROBERT N. HUMMELL ShickshinnyHeadquarter DIES AT AGE 82 Robert N. Hummell, 82, of Huniock Creek RD 1, died Tuesday afternoon in Nan icoke rotate General Hospital where h'f, was Customers Will Share In Lower DGI Rates January 1st was the start of lower cost electric service for more than 6,000 customers of Luzerne Blue Cross Elects President and Directors The' Board of Directors of Blue reptesentative for Blue Shield Cross of Northeastern Pennsyl-1 which provides coverage of doc-vania has announced changes in lor bils.

There ar 351,000 area For Knights of Malta Very few people know ndMrtist John Trumbell to execute- a patient four days. Mr. Hummell was born in Him lock Township, son of Prank and Mary. Hummell, and was -IF ALL THAT WE SAY in a single day With never a word left out, Were each night, In clear black and white, Twould prove queer reading no And then just suppose, Ere our eyes we would close, life resident of the Township. Electriic Division of United Gas Improvement Com less remember, that America owes its freedom and liberty to the vulor and superb military strategy which could only be a large canvas showing the Surrender of Cornwallis- Thi? line, work is on display In the rotunda of the Capitol in Wash Mr.

Hummell was employed as pany. performed by the famous and ington, Q.C. Resildential consumers, large power users, and street lighting a lumberman and farmer-His wife, Flossie, died Febm ary 28, 1953. Surviving are children, Floyd, We must read the whole record To be onccord as affiliated fabulous Knights of Malta. Recognized as the best mU customers will share in the re and having contributed morally ductions totaling $61,745 in 1965.

tary minds in Europe at that and mateially toward the sup Sprtngville; Russell, Mrs. Pearl Residential customers under other cut In the step from 600 2500 kilowatt hours will result in monthly savings of up to per cent for some total electric customers, Brownlee said. Generaal residential bills will go down after 300 kisowatt hour a month and communities using modern street lighting equip-ment will" pay less for electricity through 1 Then wouldn't we sigh A great deal less talking to do? IF EACH ONE OF US could putt time, King Louis XVI of France port and memory of these world Stoker and Eleanor total electric living will reap wisely selected a group of these renown Knights, might be con sidered the crowning achieve- Knights to help free the Ameri special benefits from the cuts, according to James L. Brownlee go away and live by. ourelf.

If menit and glory in the life of any one righteous man, particularly UGI vice president and head of A- the Luzerne Division. all of Huniock Creek RD; Glenn and Mrs. Dorothy Lamoneaux. both Of Angola, N.Y.; Mrs. Ruth Wright, West.

Nanticoke; 30 grandchildren and 26 great-grasKichildren; brother Harry. Huniock Creek. Funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 from the funeral I can colonies. After Washington's army had suffered years of failure and despair, these valorous noblemen with, brilliant sirategem; the quick and successful surrender so if he happen? to be a red-blooded patriotic American. during the year.

AH Total Electric customers The new rates, approved De will get lower monttily bills. Descendants of these heroes we could be entirely independent of avery ona else in the world. In short If people didn't have to lira together, life would be much kimpler But because' thls old world doesnt wag that ywy, and everybody If cember 15 by the Public Utility Brownlee explained. These are are presently members of this households using electricity for 915 year old religious and miU Commision, also provide reductions for large power consumers home, Main Road Sweet Valley, tary, Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem-Knights of using more than 200,000 kilowatt vwith, and dependent up with Rev. Roland Updyke offici- of Lord Cornwall ia "to General George Washington at York-town, Virginia, October 19, 1781 Anyone interested enough to check' on this event, will fytd a large painting of these Knights house heating, water heating, cooking aind other general purposes.

The one cent heating rate after 2500 kilowatt hours and an-1 apon everybody alta, this thing aiting. Interment will be in Oak- hours and establish a high tension rate for customers taking dale Cemetery, service at 66,000 volts. Malta. The headquarters of this ancient organization is located in he mountains near where it carries on the tradition of Washington and Jeff Friend may call Thusday night mounted in full French uniforms 7 to 9. living with folk la highly, complex business' raquing considerable tact and finesse A successful old business man recently remarked: "If I wore to advise young fellows who wish George T.

Bell the responsibilitties of its two Personals Ralph S. Smith residents enrolled in Blue Shield. One the pioneers in the erson, dedicated to preserving Mocanaqua facing General Washington at Yorktown. This historic scene immortalized in 1817 'when the United States Congress commis the Constitution of the United principal executives. States.

George T. Bell, president und Blue Gross movement, both lo sioned the well known patrfot- Crux News Service. one of the founders of the local COMMUNION BREAKFAST The Holy Name Society of St. Mary's Church has completed arrangements for their annual Communion breakfast to be, held Mr. and Mrs.

Alex Stepanski, Jr. recenttly visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Stepanski, Sr. Mr.

and Mrs. Cart Busted and children of Kingston, recently her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Andrews. Blue Cross Plan, wlH serve as cally and naionally, Mr.

Bell was one of a group -of area citizens Instrumental in organ Chairman of the Board of Direc tors and will remain active in izing Blue Cross Plan in 1938. Associated with Blue Cross the organization with Wesly Dlvies Assumes Schools' Superintendency Wesley E. Davies, Luzerne County's new superintendent of schools, spent a busy day Monday in the county schools office getting -adjusted to his new respansiQuaiicS. tuutm oiiiuu, fur more than years. Mr.

Bell Mr. and Mrs- Joseph Woods to get ahead in business, I would simply say, make friends; keep skM Chains on your tongue, always say less than you think; -cultivate a low pursuasivo voice. How yon say it, often counts for more than what you say." WITH ALL THE MAGNIFICENT PROGRESS being made by medical science in the development ol vaccines against disease it is unfortunate we shall be able to develope a Announce Engagement Mr. and Mrs. Michael Petx, of Derby, announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Anne, to Charles Scott Bicloell, son of Rev.

and Mrs. Charles A- L. Btckell, 132 Race former minister of' the First Methodist Church, Sluckshtimy "Miss Pets is a graduate of Derby High School, class of 191 and is presently a senior at Drew University, Madison, N.J. Mr. Bickell is a 1961 graduate of York Suburban High School, York, and is also a senior at Drew University.

An August wedding is executive director, baa been was the Plan's first Executive are spending some time with Mr. pointed to succeed Mr. Bea as Diectoor and has served as Pres and Mrs. Goss and family, at Sunday, January 10 after the 8 a.m. Mass.

AH officer and bers will meet in the church auditorium at 7:45 and will proceed in a body for the mass and Holy Conanunlon. Tickets can be purchased irwi the officers. Rev. Walter Foplawsld, pastor, has announced that Edward Kotz President. I ident since 1933.

Blue Cross or NonHieastern Mr. Smttth joined" the Blue position and answering many telephone calls, Orlando, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin RidaT.

visited Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Bid-all at Bent an. Many of the 'calls were con- Cross staff iri 1958 He attended the Blue Cross Executive Devel a 44-year period. He serv- gratulatory in nature while others from school administrators Recent visitors of Mr.

and opment Program at the Univer county superintendent spans, roth will be toastmaster, and Atty. 1948 to 1964. the Mrs. Charles Remaly were Mr. dealt with county schools office Pennsylvania is a non-profit camrnimity plan which provides coverage of hospital bills for residents of 13 of the counties in the northeastern part (the state.

It has 420,000 members and 38 member hospitals- Blue Cross also acts as regional E. A. Grudkowski will be guest speaker. and Mrs. Lawrence Remaly and business and offers of coopera sity of Michigan during' the summers of 1959 and 1960 and! was appointed Executive Director in 1964.

children Laura and Larry, of Claim Filed President, Elsworth Everett; vice president, Chester Bakita; financial secretary, Sylvester tion on the part of the administrators. Davies, who fcecame counxy superintendent January 1, following the retirement of Super For Lam pittstown, N.J.; and Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Spooler and children, Trudy, Toni and Thomas, of Bettville, N.J. Holiday visitors at the home Grzymskl; recording secretary.

vaccine against the disease of preventable accidents. -DISCOURAGED WITH HIS LAUNDRY coming back so badly' shrunk out of shape that he couldn't get Into them, a er' got dlscuited and sent them railroad spike, to which he -and a note, which read- can't shrink this." He received a small package later from Alfred O. and Mildred A-' Bran Carl BaeT; Guido Len- A-3C Robert Jay May is celebrating bis 20th birthday today, Jan. 7th. He is stationed at Trt-police, where he is in the Air Force Police.

He is the son of Chief ot "Police James May, of Town. Fairmcnntftos hies. .4 intendent E. S. Teter December Walter Poplawski Is son has filed a claim against McKlnley Long Jo gain possesion Mnd Mrs.

Frank McQuown of tiifr-Sociey. 31, lsotcerved maiKJngratuH Scouts who received the "Ad Mrs. William Eckart and Mrs. and John Spencer and of land used by them as a drive famijy. Altare" Scout Award, will be laitory messages in the, mail.

The new cftxmty superintendent has made known that he intends Charles Shetler of Berwick and Miss Marilee Shetler, of Wash Land is. in Long's name and Iguests at the breakfast. BAND PARENTS MEETING wee Mr. and Mrs. Addison McQuown, Budd Lake, N.J.; Mr.

end Irs. Jack Tomahunis and family of Delaware, and Mr. and Mns. Richard Greenly and family of Berwick. taxes have been paid by him the' The Northwest Area Band ington, DC, spent Monday with Mr.

and Mrs. Don Gear hart and last 42 years. parents will meet Monday evening at 7:30 in the band room. Plaintiffs re represented by Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Masters and family were Sunday dinner guests af Mr. end Mrs. Charles Masters and family at Sweet Valley. Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Titman daughters. Attorneys Lewis R. Crisman and Mr. and Mrs. Donald McQuownj Mr.

end Mrs. Eugene Millls to continue the program of education that was set up by the county schools office under the 'leadership of Superintendent Teter. Meanwhile, the county schools office staff, in cooperation with the surjervisinK nrincinals of the' Raymond F. Lowery. Defendants and children of Harlsburg re called on Mr.

-and Mrs- Jay Shultz Monday evening. attorneys are C. W- Dickson and cently visited Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McQuown.

H. Monroe Hontz. and family of Berwick, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Don Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Jacob- The Altar and RJosary Society of St. Mary's Church are making arrangements for ttheir annual Holiday Party to be held on Sunday, January 10 at Foot Hills Manor, Shickshinny. Mrs. Clementine Kokora, Chairman, has named Mrs.

Stasia W. Kowalski and Mrs. Clementine Everett as co-chaiirladies. Rev. Walter Poplawski is Pastor and Moderator.

Dollar gifts will be exchanged the laundry, witti a carpet tack and a note, which ed. "Who says we cant?" WELL, ONE WEEK OF THE NEW YEAR is gone and what have we done? How much we wish for. How many idle moments that become hours, days, and more, we spend wishing for what we do not have i wishing that others would agree with us on somethings so thai the wcrld would be perfect. And happily-here are enough to dis James Whitmire, student at Gearhat and daughters. son and family of Jamestown, county, is completing plans for EVANGELIST TO SPEAK N.V., spent the New Year's Holi Arthur Hilley, son of Mr.

and Baptist Bible Seminary Johnson City, has returned to the School after spendng the Chist- Rev. Nate Killian will be guest days with Mr. and Mrs- George Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Whitmire.

Patsy Wiaans has returned to Baptist Bible Seminary after spending the Holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Winans. Mr. and Mrs.

VefncU Whit mire and daughter of Mifflin, ville; Mrs. Margaret Whitmire and Susan Houck of Berwick, recently visited Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Whitmire. 4 Mrs.

Arthur Hilley, left on Post. Mrs. John Evcland of mas vacation with his parents, speaker at Sunchine Church, Sunday morning and evening, January 10- Taster Lewis Jones a testimonial dinner for Superintendent Teter. "It wiil be held Saturday at 6 at Irem Temple. Approximately 500 persons are expected to attend.

Teter's career in education Huntington Mttls, spent New Year's Day with the Posts. will meet at "the church after extends an invitation to the pub-1 Monday for Sain Diego, where will be stationed with the Navy. There will be regular morning worship here at 9:30 on January 10th and Sunday School at 10:30. and a 10c fun gift brought in. Billy, Joseph and Donald Rosary Devotions on the day of lie to attend.

Boiwka spent several days last Anyone wishing transportation the party week with Mr. and Mrs. William Hollywood Deb Stars Of 1965 Jenkins, at Red Hill. Comment from the Capital' Mr. and Mrs.

Gerald Masters and daughters spent New Year's MISSIONARIES AT HARMONY CHURCH Hugh and Kay Coombs, Mis; Eve with Mr. and Mrs. Jay AFTER THE UPHEAVALS feyVorrfNeff i Shultz. agree with us to keep the world from going to ruin Probably, too, we wish for things that we might have, if we were wiling to apply ourselves to the real tasks of living The successful inventor, artist or business and professional men got there because they wanted to so much that they broke down every barrier It Is very plain, if we want life's prizes we must work for them. sknaries from the Congo, will Mr.

and Mrs. Sam Stiles of be at the Harmony Church Sunday, Januay 10th at 7:30 p.m. i' Clifton, N. J. visited Mrs- Bea Klingieinsmith and Roy They will relate their work by Pennington recently.

showing slides and curios. 4 Mr. and Mrs. Don Gearhart have very sosn nuclear arsenal it can use against almost every capital city in Asia. Is this nothing to worry about? For all the soothing syrup it's handing1 the American people, the State Department is in fact worrying plenty and in all the wrong ways, it seems to me.

Two new words have been coined of late at Foggy Bottom "Chirep," which means giving Ton might have thought that Khrushchev's ouster and Red China's A-bomb would have jarred some of our apostles of the soft line to their senses, but it doesn't look that vsy. This clique with the rose-colored glaiues is pushing" its "eo-existeRC'' pitch as much aa ever, and with no more rhyme or reason. After all, if ths coexistence was doing1 us ocy good, it obviously must have Mrs. Coombs uses ventriloquist dummy. She is the former Kay Hertzog, director of Child ing free to explode them out of existence by war-as the Chinese want or to eat away at free people by crafty subversion, the Russian method.

The answers, the only answers, lie in strength and determination. And not in any fond fie tion of a split between Russia and Red China. The Red masters have always acted pointedly and instantly when their interests were dis turbed. Now Russia threatens i and daughters spent New Year's i Day with Mr. and Mrs.

Gesrge Roup and family at Danville. Evangelism in Luzerne County. Mr. and Mrs. Coombs have Mrs.

Josephine Gearhart was been in the Congo several years, sent by the Berean Mission. They New Year's Day guest of Mr, and Mrs. Jay Shultz. Keel (Jhina representation in the U.N., and "Chirec," giving her been lulling the Communists. The New Year brings us new opportunity.

THE SURLY OLD MISER became ill, and in a panic sent for the local clergyman, although TiesATnever done anything to help the parish. "If I leave to ibe he moaned, "will my salvation be assured" "I wouldn't be certain re. mpivthr Viet Cone if tha nd if it was, it certainly 'would We hear and Mrs and Mrs. Mr. Peter YeiU' and more talk of these as part have been one of the reasons have two daughters.

1 i COMPLETES TRAINING who are moving from Williams port to Kentucky, spent New HaroidT Yple, Still water, RD Year's Day with Mr. and Mrs. John Yeliitz and family. 1, has successfully completed a Home Office training School for the Farm Family Life Insurance II 1-0 I Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe and Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer Norman and of a more "flexible" policy toward China. Now, you know and I know the vast majority of the American people are firmly opposed to both these ideas. Every U.S. president who has had to face the menace of Red China has considered and rejected them.

This doesn't seem to bother the soft line disciples a bit. Apparently, the theory is that when a nation the civilized world regards as an outlaw becomes an outlaw with nuclear power, the only thing to do is to give it what it wants. Company, Detawr, N.Y. Sally had suppor on Friday with Mr. and Mrs.

J. T. Norman at He recently began working U.S. dares defend itself by bombing red supply lines ia North Vietnam. And together the lying Commies have hidden the facts of the Congo massacres from their blasted the U.S.

"intervention" and encouraged mobs to storm our embassies and burn the Kennedy Library in Cairo-Without shame we have backed, down under their screaming red led Congolese rebels. The Reds have played their "split" for everything it's worth, for the clear, simple reason that it suits their ends, not ours. It gives Russia a cloak or respectability under which to-erode the vigilance and the unity of the West. In short, it lets the Communists have things both ways at once. piled the clergyman, "but It's well worth trying THAT ALL OF US SHOULD THINK ALIKE is unthinkable But ft would help a lot if all of us would just think.

Nikita got the boot. But not so. That semi-secret "memorandum'' Nik's successors handed out to explain his downfall listed 40 pages of his shortcomings, but peaceful coexistence" was not to be found. Indeed, at the Moscow confab celebrating the 47th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Party Boss Brezhnev was up there touting coexistence as enthusiastically as Khrushchev in.hia mellowest moods. Now, when the Reds show such steadfast adherence to a policy, it saenu to me gravely suspect as a policy for the United States.

But I admit the mental procaines of the soft-line crew are beyond me. Take their reaction to Red- with the (Pennsylvania Fanners' Association Insurance Service in Luzerne and Columbia Coun Huntington Mills. Mr. and Mrs. Merle Wagner and family of Huntington Mills spent Saturday evening with Mr.

TOMORROW'S STARS Thia quintet of youna beautiei Vil appear on the Clairol Television Special, "The Deb Stars of 1965 ties. Your new insurance repre on Saturday, 2 p.m. EST), over ABC-TV. Top, Left to Right: Raquel Welch, Margaret Mason, Tracy McHale, Seated, Left to Right: Wendy Stuart and Mary Ann Mobley. sentative has a successful farm background making him well OYE MAN GETS NOTHING hut discord out of a pitiio; an other get harmony.

No ona claimai qualified to serve your insurance needs. With their selection as Holly BENSCOTER SUED FOR $26,051 BILL Recovery of $26,051.71 for mer- wood Deb Stars, ten of filmland's groups in silent screen days, 12: actresses have been honored as Deb Stars. Ninety-three hare the piano is at fault. "Life Mr. Yaple qualified to attend luckiest girls get a firm loot- itsmtniBLi' Hun.iia ami Weil Is about the same.

The discord this special Life Insurance Train and the harmony art there ing Course by insuring many Among those whose fresh beauty and talent caused their names to ie added to the Deb Stars roster in the past are ICim farm families, in his area. fame. Past events have shown that with this honor comes an Sj chance of achieving actual stardom. The presentation of the girls who were chosen this year by the film industry's make-up art SPORTSMEN'S MEETING United Sportsmen, Camp 271, ists and hair stylists will be Huntington Mills, Sunday, Jan. 10 at 2 p.m.

in the hall. 1965 dues are due at this meeting, and Deere Company of Syracuse, N.Y., in a suit started at the Courthouse, against Clarence O. Benscoter, also known as O. Benscoter and Clarence J. Ben-scoter trading as C.

J. Benscoter and Rural Supply Company, ShicksMnny RD. Complaiiint also asks interest from August 21, 1964. It Was filed by Attorney Theodore L. Krohn.

Mr. and Mrs. Omar Seals and seen on the Clairol Television Special, "The Hollywood Deb Stars of 1965" on Saturday, Jan. 2. over ABC-TV p.m.

EST). Co-hosts of the gala affair, Peking exploded the thing, they were us- it was nothing -to worry about. But let's look at the facts. Red China's bomb was about as big as the one that destroyed Hiroshima. China has the e- sources to build many Buch bombs a year.

Peking has 275 Soviet-built IL-28 bombers that can carry these bombs to targets 600 miles away, and five 1L-18 jet transports that could carry them as far as four thousand miles. Peking also has a missile program Washington hasn't told us much about-although we do know it is run by one Chien Hsueh-shen, a California Tech grad who was allowed to leave the U.S. for Red China in In short, Peking las or will Installation of Officers. China have agreed to pursue a strategy of "peaceful coexistence." Both have agreed that this means conquest without thermonuclear war. And both have defined the United States as "the main foroe of aggression and war, andthe enemy of the We, the most powerful 11 a tion that ever existed on this planet cannot be defeated by Russia, or by Red China.

We can only be defeated by ourselves. We cay only be defeated by moral failure to nse strength, by handing our enemies ona small victory after another un- til those enemies have seized-the balance of power. Russia knows this. Red China knows it. I hope the great ma-, jority of Americans will knovj it in time.

1 Study to play It correctly, and it will give- forth the play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness Life It not at fault. tANGER AND WORRY ARE the most unprofitable conditions known to man While they are in possession, mental, physical, and spiritual growth are suspended Anger is a highway robber, and worry is a sneak thief. IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAI COUNTS Novak, Carol Lynley, Kamy Nolan, Tuesday Wold, Jill St. John. Yvette Mlmloiix and Paula Prentiss.

To be eligible for the Hollywood Deb Star title, a lady must be a wot king proles, sional actress with motion pic ture or television credits, be between 16 and 22 years of age, and be nominated by a studio, network, production company, major star or an agency. This year's lucky Debs are Janet Landgard. Donna Loren. Margaret Mason. Mary Ann Mobley, Tracy McHale.

Barbara Parkins, Laurie Sibbald, WenfiT Stuart. Beverly Washburn aud which will take place at Holly How much more obvious could the foolishness of such a policy be? How often must we remind ourselves of the folly of. granting piece-meal concessions' to an enemy sworn to destroy usT When will we recognize appeasement for just what it is surrender on the installment planl The only disagreements between Communists are over the most effective means of destroy- Mr. and Mrs. Hale Marshall and children, of Newport News, spent last week with Mr-and Mrs.

Righter Betterty. Crawford Thomas of Rochester, N.Y.," spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Robert, wood's famed PallPaium, are Carolyn Jonas, star of "The Addaras Family," and comedian George Gobel. Since 1953, when the guild of experts whose deft touch adds immeasurably to Hollywood piamor decided to revive the future-star idea first made famous by the Wampas Baby Star family of New York City, spent last week with Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Colder and Mrs. Isla WilczynsH and family. uavtuei weica..