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Farewell Dinner By Parishioners
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Rev. Paul W. Keppel was honored
Monday night at a dinner at Hunts-
ville Christian Church. Having
served as pastor for three years,
Rev. Keppel is being replaced by
Rev. Charles H. Frick, former
Huntsville minister, recently of Mt.
Rainier, Maryland. Following a
month’s vacation in Europe Mr.
Keppel will return to Stella Pres-
byterian Church, Forty Fort.
Addie Elston, Elva Warmouth, Carl
Warmouth, Mrs. Milton Culp, Royal
J. Culp, John M. Culp, Dale War-
mouth, William H. Davis, Al Jones,
Iva Jones, Hazel Bogart, Mrs. Wal-
ter Covert, Al Davis, Mr. and Mrs
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Wilbur Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Burtony/] 58. No. 13
Robepts, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Grgée, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Gar-
ipger, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shaver,
Mrs. Bertha Jenkin Dick Culp, Mr.
The out-going minister was preg| and Mrs JJ. Major, Mrs. Walter
sented with a quilt by the Ladies™=@+=€8Vert, Mrs. Edward Hopa, Mr.
Aid in the name of the church.
J. E. Roberts presided as master
of ceremonies and short addresses
were given by the two pastors.
Paul S. Frick acted as songleader
and was accompanied by Mrs. Wal-
ter C. Covert. The choir also pre-
sented a number.
Present: Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Robh-
erts, Rev. Paul W. Keppel, Rev. and
Mrs. C. H. Frick, Mr. and Mrs. P.
S. Frick and Nancy, Helen C. Bren-
ton, Hannah Culp, Mildred A. Major,
and Mrs. Charles Elston, Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Moss, Edith Dietz, Paul
Dargoy, Charlotte Culp, Mrs. Robert
Culp, Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Barnes
and Sterling, Mr. and Mrs. Carlton
Hadsall, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rob-
erts and Janet, Mr. and Mrs. Stan-
ley Culp, Joan Warmouth, Patricia
Clark, Barbara .Culp, Mrs. Lewis
Culp, Mrs. Ralph Frantz.
Supper was prepared by Ladies’
Aid Society.
Former Noxen Man
Dies At Bethlehem
Claude M. Williamson, 54, statis-
tician for Pennsylvania Power and
Light Company and a former resi-
dent of Noxen, died early Tuesday
morning following a heart attack
at his home 513 10th Avenue, Beth-
lehem.
An engineer, trained at Syracuse
University, Mr. Williamson's early
career with the company took him
to all parts of Pennsylvania where
he supervised many of the.firm’s
large installations.
Having an unusual aptitude for
mathemetics, he received many pro-
motions and of recent years, his
headquarters were in the home
office at Allentown.
During World War I while he
was a student at Syracuse, he was
accepted for the Army for officer
training at Madison Barracks, N.Y.
After the war he was with Brooklyn
Navy Yard and later entered the
employment of Pennsylvania Power
and Light Company.
His mother, Margaret Williamson,
was for many years teacher of the
- first grade in Noxen schools.
His wife the former Lucille Cleary
died of a heart attack on Decem-
ber 1, 1944.
He leaves three children: Jacque-
line, oral hygienist in Allentown
Public Schools; James, a student at
Mi:blenburg College, and Mrs. Rov
Beagle of Bethlehem; also two
grandsons and a sister, Miss Helen
Williamson, former Shavertown
teacher, now an instructor at the
Friends School, Philadelphia.
Mr. Williamson had been in good
health and high spirits before his
death. He was especially happy
because Grandma Cleary and mem-
bers of her family were up from
Trenton, along with his wife's sis-
ters’ families and his sister to be
present at the dedication of a bap-
tismal font given in memory of his
wife at Emmanuel Congregational
Church on Palm Sunday. Sunday
afternoon there was a family din-
ner at a nearby country hotel where
everybody made plans for his dau-
ghter, Jacqueline’s, approaching
marriage. For him it was one of
the brighest spots since the death
of his beloved wife. On Monday
night, he and his son Jim won a
bowling match. He was stricken
after he retired, so critically, that
a physician hastily summoned could
do nothing. He died surrounded
by members of his family.
Vegetable Growers
To Discuss Problems
Two tomato disease meetings,
sponsored by Luzerne County Agri-
cultural Extension Association, will
be held in this area during the
coming week. At both of these,
O. D. Buche, plant pathologist of
Pennsylvania State College will be
the speaker.
The meeting on Wednesday,
March 31, under the auspices of
Bloomingdale Vegetable Growers Co-
operative will be held at McKendree
Grange Hall at 8 p.m. The second
will be held Thursday, April 1, at
Mountain Grange, Carverton, under
the auspices of Carverton Upland
Tomato Growers Association. Car-
verton Potato Growers Association
will meet the same evening to dis-
cuss plans for the year.
On Friday night, April 2, vege-
table growers of Luzerne County
will meet at the Little White House,
Kingston, to hear James Dutt of
Pennsylvania State College discuss
| “New Varieties” and problems of
vegetable growing.
Easter Services
The four choirs will participate
in the Easter music at Trucksville
Methodist Church Sunday morning.
A bouquet of flowers given by
neighbors in memory of Mrs. Jane
Lohmann, and other potted plants
presented to the church by the
W.S.C.S., will decorate the chancel.
Two Baseball Teams
Needed For New Loop
Two first class baseball teams
are needed to complete the Susque-
hanna Upper County Baseball
League so that the schedule can
get under way the first week in
May.
Managers seeking berths are in-
vited to attend a meeting Tuesday
night at Lawson’s Sports Center,
16 West Luzerne Avenue, Larks-
ville, when plans will be discussed
to form a new baseball loop in
the Back Mountain Region.
Alexander Named As
Mill Office Manager
Jay Lewis Alexander, West Pitts-
ton, has been named to succeed
Howard = Bowers, Berwick, « office
manager at Natona Mills. Mr.
Bowers has resigned. *
Mr. Alexander fs a graduate of
Lehigh University with a degree
in business administration and has
been employed with the Packaging
and Shipping Service of Scranton,
and is assistant treasurer of the
Scranton Record Company. At one
time he was purchasing, agent for
Kingston Coal Company.
New Mill Construction
May Start During April
Avsnounceinoxt’ was made this
week that construction will start
on the new Fernbrook Park Mill
of Bloomsburg Mills Inc., sometime
during April.
‘When completed the plant will
contain 288 Crompton and Knowles
S-6 automatic looms and approx-
imately 25,000 throwing spindles.
All equipment will be new. Lacy,
Atherton, Wilson & Davis are the
architects.
‘Thirty-One New Members
Join Methodist Church
Thirty-one new members were ac-
cepted at the Palm Sunday services
at Dallas Methodist Church making
a total of fifty for the year.
The growth of church membership
is an indication of the renewed in-
terest in things spiritual and also
reflects the growth of the com-
munity.
More and more Dallas Methodist
Church is becoming a community
church with a membership made up
of many with previous varied church
affiliations.
better than fifty each year.
Druggist To Be Honored
At Pharmaceutical Dinner
Edward Hall, Shavertown druggist
and president of Luzerne County
Pharmaceutical Association, and
Frank Koronkiewicz, Nanticoke, who
has been selected as Luzerne County
druggist of the! year, will-be hon-
ored at the anntal“dinner of the
Association in Hotel Sterling on
April 14.
Richard M. Stapleton, Luzerne, a
past president of the Association,
will be toastmaster.
New Officers Preside
At CF Society Supper
CF Society met in the social
rooms of Huntsville
Church Friday night for its monthly
meeting. A covered dish supper
was held. New officers began their
duties at this meeting, with Burton
Roberts ' presiding.
It was reported that the recent
box social cleared $55 for the par-
sonage fund, and it was decided to
make the event an annual affair.
Present: Mr. and Mrs. Walter C.
Covert, Mr. and Mrs.
Brobst, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Gar-
inger, Mr. and Mrs. Burton Roberts,
William Eckert, Mrs. Elva War-
mouth, Miss Mildred Major.
During the past three
years 177 persons have joined the
church for an average increase of
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Christian
Kenneth
Dallas Township
Under The Direction
Presenting a varied program
Proceeds from the concert will
be used for the Band Uniform Fund.
Since coming to Dallas Township
in April, 1947, Mr. Camp has in-
creased the size of the Band from
forty-two musicians and seven
twirlers to a well rounded musical
organization of sixty-five musicians
and ten twirlers. Piccolo and flute
sections have been added. He has
also developed a Junior Band com-
posed of pupils from the Fourth,
Fifth and Sixth grades. The latter
organization now has twenty-three
members.
Although he will lose twelve
senior musicians by graduation this
spring, these will be replaced by
younger musicians who are now
being prepared to take their places.
Within the past year the band
has played a number of outside
engagements. It took part in
Kingston Township Veterans’ Mem-
orial Service in April, 1947 and
played at the dedication of Tyler
Memorial Hospital at Meshoppen.
It also played at the Bloomsburg
Fair and took part in the Armistice
Day parade in Wilkes-Barre. In
addition the Band appeared at all
Township football games, at Parent-
Teacher meetings and gave a benefit
concert for the school athletic as-
sociation.
Members of Dallas Township
musical organizations have been
well represented during the year at
State Music Festivals.
Band members Harry Bellas,
trumpet; Jacqueline Mahoney,
clarinet, and Robert Henney, bass
horn, represented = Dallas Town-
ship at the District Band Festival
of the Pennsylvania Music Educa-
tors’ Association in Hazleton dur-
ing January.
Early in March, chorus members
Theresa-Polachek, soprano; Barbara
Hope, soprano; Wilma Hess, alto
and Lois Klein, alto, represented the
Township at the P.M.E.A. Chorus
Festival in Milton.
On Tuesday of this week Barbara
Hope, soprano soloist; Wilma Hess,
twirler and Patricia VanCampen,
twirler, represented the school at
Luzerne County Forensic and Music
League Festival in Forty Fort under
the joint sponsorship of the Univer-
sity of Pittsburgh and the office of
the ‘County Superintendent of
Schools.
During its Spring Concert the
Band will play two of the P.M.E.A.
All State Band selections. These
will be Pastel of Moods, by Skor-
nicka, and March and Chorus from
the Oratorio, ‘Judas Maccabaeus”,
Rhy Handel. Other selections and
marches featuring the twirlers will
include Stout Hearted Men by Rom-
berg and Vienna Dreams by Dr.
Sieczynski.
Chorus selections will include
Gypsy Song, a Roumanian folk
song; The Dancers, by Lacome, and
Panis Angelcus by Cesar Franck.
The last number is a P.M.E.A. All-
State Chorus selection and will
feature Barbara Hope as soprano
soloist with the chorus.
Three sextet numbers will be
P.M.E.A. All-State chorus selections.
They will be I Must and Will Get
Married by Bingham; Night Song
by Clokey and Music Where Soft
Voices Die, by Dickinson.
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1948
School Band
Will Present Spring Concert
Combined Musical Clubs Will Appear
Of Milliner-Camp
of instrumental and choral music,
Dallas Township High School Band of seventy-five members, and the
school chorus of sixty members, will present their annual spring con-
cert in the high school auditorium, Friday night, April 2, under the
direction of Alfred Milliner-Camp.
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Sportsmen Want
More Fox Hunts
Lake Camp To Hear
Reports Monday Night
The latest in hunting and fishing
equipment will be displayed at the
meeting of Harvey's Lake Camp,
United Sportsmen, Monday night
when it convenes at Herman Kern's
Tavern, Harvey's Lake.
There will also be entertainment
by Jack Edwards, Wyoming humor-
ist, following the business session.
A report will be made by the
chairman of the fox hunt which
was held two weeks ago and was
attended by approximately « 140
sportsmen.
Two foxes were killed during
the hunts which were held on the
Andrew J. Sordoni and Newell
Wood properties. Six dogs were
‘used for the trailing and at one
time they had five foxes going.
The first fox was~shot by Leo
Mayeski, Lynwod; and the second
by Joseph Dula of Harvey’s Lake.
So popular was the event that it
is planned to hold several hunts
next year. No more can be held
this year because game laws do
not permit dogs in the field after
March 30.
During the past two weeks sev-
eral crates of adult birds have been
reléased by the club ‘and more are
due and will be released in time
for natural brood rearing.
Considerable stream stocking has
instances measuring fourteen inches.
The fish committee has received
word from the Government that
the order for lake trout for stock-
ing in Harvey's Lake will be
changed to black bass because lake
trout are not now being raised
for distribution.
y Plans for a summer outing will
be discussed at the business meet-
ing.
Local Students Win
In Music Contests
Dallas Township, Lehman and
Kingston Township students rated
among the winners this week at
the Luzerne County Music contest
of the Pennsylvania Music and
Forensic League held in Forty Fort
High School.
Wilma Hess, Dallas Township
Senior, and Betty Ide, Lehman High
School, were judged superior in
baton twirling.
Barbara Hope, Dallas Township
Junior, won a superior rating in
the soprano contest for girls, and
Harry Trebilcox, Kingston Township
High School won a superior rating
in piano.
All of the winners will appear in
the district contests at Kingston
High School on April 10.
Disposal Plant Approved
The State Sanitary Water Board
has approved the waste products
disposal plant of Natona Mills. The
mill management is now purchasing
chemical supplies and dye stuffs
so that it can open its dye house
department shortly.
been done with the trout in some|
Coaches Pick
All-Star Team
Four Dallas Girls
Named On Two¢ Teams
Two members of Dallas Borough's
championship girls’ basketball team
won uncontested places on the all-
star team picked by League coaches
while Dallas Township and Kingston
Township placed one girl each and
were tied for a guard position. One
star Laketon girl was also named
to the team.
Dallas Borough also placed two
girls on the second team with Dal-
las Township, Harter, Lehman, and
Kingston Township each having one.
Named forwards on the first team
were Elkins of Dallas Borough,
Spaciano of Kingston Township and
Hess of Dallas Township. First two
guards are Cundiff of Dallas Bor-
ough and Shiner of Laketon while
P. Martin of Dallas Township and
Ness of Kingston Township tied for
the other position.
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Sixty-Five Piece Dallas Township Band To Give Concert
To Fire Company
$3,087 Pledged
Jackson Firemen Are
Out To Raise $10,000
Solicitors turned in pledges
amounting to $3,087 at the second
report meeting of Jgckson Volunteer
Fire Company Monday, night at
Rome schoolhougé. his amount
$708 was in cash Reports were from
twenty-four out of more than fifty
solicitors who have been covering
the township to raise funds for the
purchase of new fire equipment and
the erection of a community hall.
Many volunteer contributions
came from nearby townships where
interest the formation of the
new fire company is also high.
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The next report meeting will be
at Rome schoolhouse on Wednes-
day, April 7. At that time it is
hoped that all solicitors will be on
hand to make their final reports
| of the response in their respective
areas.
On the second team are: For-
wards—Culp of Dallas Borough, Ide
of Lehman, and Byorick of Harter;
guards—Cooper of Dallas Borough,
Anderson of Dallas Township, and
D. Houser of Kingston Township.
Receiving honorable mention
were: guards—Lines, Fairview; E.
Martin, Laketon; Culp, Lehman;
Rowlands, Kingston Township; Gay,
Dallas Borough; Harding, Laketon;
Forwards—Frace, Harter; Hoover,
Lehman; Byorick, Harter; McCola-
tion, Laketon; Koscelvick, Fairview;
Belleva, Fairview, and Williams,
Lehman.
During her six years at Dallas
Borough High School, Coach Park
has had three League champion
teams and three second place win-
ners. The 1948 team was defeated
only by Kingston Township.
Crispell Out For
Auditor General
Prohibition Party
Picks Former Teacher
Albert Crispell, former Lake
Township teacher, has been nomi-
nated by the Prohibition Party to
be its candidate for State Treas-
urer.
Mr. Crispell who is now com-
pleting his work toward a B. S.
degree in secondary school educa-
tion at Mansfield State Teachers
College, is on the sie ticket with
Dale Learn, East Stroudsburg real-
tor, who is a candidate for vice-
Athletics Call
Dallas Player
Bob Grose Leaves
Soon For Training
Bob Grose, has been called by
the Philadelphia Athletics to report
for spring baseball practice at Red
Spring, N.C,,_on April 8.
He will later be assigned to the
Athletic’s farm team at Welch,
West Virginia.
For two years a shortstop on
the Dallas Legionaires team, Bob
was picked for a try-out at the
close of last season by Athletic
scouts. He is a former Dallas High
School star player.
During the winter months Bob
has been employed in a plywood
plant at Jamestown, N.Y. but will
arrive home this Saturday and will
remain here with his mother for
a few days until he leaves for the
South.
Back Mountain
Exceeds Quota
Red Cross Returns
Are Still Incomplete
The Back Mountain area has ex-
ceeded its quota in the Red Cross
Drive $1,712.25 having been sub-
president. The candidate for Presi-'
dent is Claude A. Watson, Califor- |
nia attorney.
Mr. Crispell expects to tour the
State with Charles Palmer, candi-
date for State Auditor General.
They will do most of their speaking
in churches and to young voters
groups.
“Though I don’t expect to be
elected, it will be a good experi-
ence” Mr. Crispell said this week
while visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Crispell over the Easter
holiday .
A world war veteran and assist-
ant chaplain, he expects to enter
John Wesley Seminary at Asbury
College, Wilmore, Kentueky, next
fall.
Good Friday Services
Special services will be held at
Dallas Methodist Church on Good
Friday evening at 7:30. Rev. Fred-
erick Reinfurt will have as his ser-
mon topic, “Were You There When
They Crucified My Lord?” There
will be special music by the choirs.
scribed to date with reports from
many districts still incomplete. . The
quota was $1,610.
Grace Cavef chairman of the area,
asks, however, t all who have
not yet given should do so to swell
the final quota.
Districts, their quotas and
amounts subscribed follow. Quota,
$210, Lehman, contributed $239;
$175, Lake, $59.39 incomplete; $75,
Franklin, no report; $250, Dallas
Township, $348.67 (this report in-
cludes $190.99 from Natona Mills
which was not included in the
original quota and leaves the town-
ship $92.32 short of original quota;
$300 Dallas Borough, $386.50; $200,
Shavertown, $297.75; $400, Trucks-
ville, $349, incomplete.
Thus, quotas have ben exceeded
by Lehman, Dallas Borough and
Shavertown.
Cafeteria To Open
Edgar Williams, former manager
of Irem Temple Country Club has
been made manager of the new
cafeteria which is expected to open
next week at Natona Mills.
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Bob Smith Is
Made Commander
At Annapolis
Huntsville Midshipman
Stands 2nd In Senior
Class at Naval Academy
Midshipman Bob Smith, son of
General Norman Smith of Hunts-
two regimental commanders at the
Naval Academy, Annapolis. The
appointment was made by the
faculty.
Bob, a senior student, is a grad-
uate of Wyoming Seminary and was
an alternate appointment.
Only one other Annapolis stu-
dent outranks him. He is Dick
Scott, All-American center, who is
student corps commander. The
other regimental commander is
John Shimshak, All-American
tackle.
Announcement of the appoint-
ments came shortly after the close
of the first semester when Bob was
promoted from a four stripe bat-
talion commander to a five stripe
regimental commander.
He stands second in the Senior
Class of 400 midshipmen in aptitude
for naval service and seventh
academically. The six men who are
ahead of him in scholarship were
the Naval Academy. Bob entered
from Wyoming Seminary.
Last year Bob was one of several
midshipmen on a cruise of Euro-
pean waters who was chosen to
attend a royal reception in England
where they met Princess Elizabeth.
every year since he has been at the
academy playing end on this year’s
team.
After graduation this June' he
will enter the Marine Corps being
among those high ranking students
who are permitted to choose the
branch of service they wish to
enter.
His dppointment as regimental
commander during the last half
of his senior year is an honor
coveted by all shipmen because
they have an opportunity to take
a leading part in all activities and
reviews subsequent to and during
the colorful commencement cere-
monies.
His father, who is director of
athletics at Wyoming Seminary,
says that Bob, a six-footer, is the
runt of the family, “but a swell
boy, a swell boy, mind you.”
Legion Post To
Entertain Vets
500 Are Invited
To Open House
More than 500 Back Mountain
veterans of World War II have
been invited to attend the open
house of Daddow-Isaacs Post, Amer-
ican Legion on Tuesday night, April
2, at the Legion Home on Hunts-
ville Road.
The membership corn Sites hopes
to make Daddow-Isaacs Post one
of the finest in Luzerne County
and is sparing no effort to make
contacts with veterans who have
lived here for years and with those
who have recently moved here. All
are welcome at the open house
whether they have received a per-
sonal invitation or not.
There will be refreshments, enter-
tainment and good fellowship. To
assist it in sending out invitations,
the membership committee used
this newspaper’s service record file
which was up to date until two
years age. ‘ Others on the com-
mittee were assigned to obtain the
names of veterans who have moved
here during the past few years.
Easter Sunrise Service
An Easter sunrise Service for the
young people of Dallas Methodist
Church will be held on the Church
lawn at 6 o’clock Sunday morning.
The entire service will be in charge
of the young people with the pastor
bringing the Easter message.
Following the service there will
be Holy Communion. An Easter
Breakfast will be served to the
‘young people in the ehurch parlors.
In case of bad weather, the program
will be held in the church. All are
welcome to attend, but breakfast
will be served only to the young
people.
ville, has been appointed one of °
all college graduates before entering «
He has won his letter in football