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By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
Apparently a lot of people, including the all-important folks who run
the Barnyard, see eye to eye with me on the desecration of the highways
An awakened civic consciousness is the most Vol 39, No. 17
and streams of this area.
lasting remedy, but this takes time
of pleasant meadows, rolling hills, sparkling streams, rugged rocks, and
HE Darras Post
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY. INSTITUTION
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949
BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious accidents since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
DALLAS | 2 {a2
LEHMAN [ 1 | 1
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP {Ce { 4
JACKSON TOWNSHIP | 2 |
MONROE TOWNSHIP | 3 | 1
ROSS TOWNSHIP | 2 |
LAKE TOWNSHIP | 1 [ 1
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP | | 2
6 CENTS PER COPY | TOTAL liad
and education. With this heritage |
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winding scenic roads, the residents
of the Back Mountain country are:
just plain crazy if they allow time |
to slip by without taking measures |
to safeguard their most precious
possession. The time is NOW, not
next month or next year. |
We have the makings of the
most beautiful and desirable resi-
dential section in this part of
Pennsylvania, but we are lazy]
when the time comes to exert a |
little personal effort. This is|
everybody's business.
Everybody |
who tosses a tin can alongside the
road is casting a vote for a slip-|
shod community.
Dallas might well adopt the far-|
sighted plan sponsored by Lincoln, |
Nebraska, some years ago, and for
all I know to the contrary still in
effect.
Lincoln noted that there were
small spots indicating decay with- |
in its spic and span borders. This,
the city fathers felt, could not be
tolerated. The Chamber of Com- |
merce and the service clubs met in |
solemn conclave, and a committee
on Eye-Sores was appointed, the
personnel to change once a month
so that no undue burden would be
laid upon any one group of people. |
The current Eye-Sore Committee |
toured the town with eyes wide
open, selected the most glaring bits
of offensiveness, and did some- |
thing about it, stirring up public
opinion in the process. One off-
shoot of this committee’s activities
is that a vacant store building in
Lincoln is never a catchall for junk,
but is left clean and neat, its win-
dows washed, its interior an invita-
tion for a tenant.
One vacant lot which was grow-
ing up to unsightly weeds in the
heart of the business district was
selected as the monthly project by
the Eye-Sore Committee. The
owner, a man of means who could
well afford to take steps, was ask-
ed to either turn the vacant lot
into a beauty spot by developing
a lawn, or build something on it.
He called an architect and directed
him to design the most beautiful
building in Lincoln and get it up
quick so that he coul® get that |
such-and-such and so-and-so com-
mittee off his neck. The deed was
done, and in record time, and the
building" whic% now o.cupies the |
vacant lot adds a great deal to the
downtown district, is in fact a
model for other buildings as the
city expands.
A junk yard which was located
near the railroad tracks just out-
side the town limits was told to
clean up its property or remove
itself to a spot a mile to the south.
A mile to the south was far away
from the railroad, and as a spur |
track
the owner selected the lesser of |
two evils. He built a long low |
shed, sorted his piles of junk into
huge bins, and put up a sign,
“Agricultural and Automotive i
Parts”. The Committee on Eye-
Sores gave him its blessing and left |
him in peace. i
A squatter who had moved onto
somebody's land near the railroad |
right-of-way, was living in a collec- |
tion of ancient packing ‘boxes faced |
with tin against the searching |
prairie wind. The Eye-Sore Com- |
mittee for that month decided that |
as this unsightly shack was the |
first thing which incoming pass: |
engers on the Burlington Railroad |
saw, something must be done to |
remedy the situation.
The committee called upon the!
squatter, explained that in that |
section nobody minded squatters, | many atendants will reign as Queen | Evans and Charles S. Evans, all of
but that the squatter’s
lltent gnd dafigerous” and the Ov-
{lerbrgok
las chairman of the Underprivil-
was necessary to business, |
Club Opposes
House Bill 1176
New Officers Preside |
At Overbrook Meeting |
ing Tuesday night went on record |
as opposing Anti-Firearms Legis- |
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Overbrook Gun Club at its meet |
Mothers and Daughters of Two Girl Scout Troops Dine at Dallas Church
lation as proposed in House Bill | Ei
1176 which would prohibit the use
of any firearm or airgun at any
time or place in the common-
wealth except under certain con-
ditions. #
Sportsmen's clubs have condem-
ned the bill gs**‘careless, incompe-
ub urges all other clubs
and ortsmen to oppose it by
writing to their. State Represen-
tatives. d
Presiding at the meeting were
newly installed officers: A. W.
Hudak, president; Leo B. Stout,
vice president; James Ellman, re-
cording secretary and Tom Royer,
financial secretary,
New trustees are: John Wat-
kins, Jack Grewer and Charles Ell-
man.
Kiwanis Club Plans
Birthday Celebration
Dallas Kiwanis Club will hold
a banquet at Irem Temple Country
Club on May 25, when members
will celebrate their twenty-second
birthday anniversary.
The club announced at its meet-
ing held Wednesday evening that
the fourth Junior Baseball League
season will open shortly. A meet-
ing with team captains will take
place at Irem Temple Country Club |:
Wednesday evening at the
Kiwanis meeting. Richard Prynn,
was named League Supervisor.
This is his third year as super-
visor of the Junior teams. Donald
Harris presided.
Rev. Howard Harrison, popular
member of the Club, donated a
birthday gift which was won by
Sherman Harter, Rev. Harrison has
done an excellent piece of work
next
eged Children’s Fund.
Dr. Roger Owen was introduced
as a new member. A film “The
Science of Milk Production” was
shown by James Huston.
May Queen
William Evans,
Eighty Today
Will Be Guest At
Open House Tonight
William H, Evans, Sr., is receiv- |
ing the good wishes of ‘many
friends today on his 80th birth-
day anniversary. Mrs. Paul R.
Dailey, his daughter, /will hold
open-house for relatives and friends
this evening at the {family resi-
dence on Lawn street, Shavertown.
“Pop” as he is more familiarly
known by customers at Evans’ Drug
Two beautiful: flags, one an!
American and the other flag for |
Troop 149 were presented to Girl
Scout Troop 149 by Mr. Jack
Loucks at a Mother and Daughter |
Dinner for Troops 54 and 149 held |
last Wednesday night at Dallas |
Methodist Church. Eighty-two at-|
tended.
Flags were presented to the
troop by Louise Loucks, daughter
of the donor. She was attended
by her color guatd, comprised of
Nancy Fitch, Jane Matchett and
Jacquelyn Kingston. Joan Lewin
expressed the .appregiation of the
troop for the: gifty”
A flag standard, the gift of Mr.
and Mrs. Andre Thevanon in mem- |
ory of their daughter, Helen, a
former member of Troop 149 was
presented by Mrs. {Harris Haycox.
lags were attached to new staffs
by Mrs. Ray Titus.
Miss Dolores Morris, Field Direc-
tor of Wilkes-Barre Council, gave
the invocation and welcome. Mrs.
Harris Haycox, founder and first
leader of Troop 149 gave a history
jot the troop.
Flag ceremony was performed by
Flag Bearers and Color Guard. Pro-
ficiency badges were awarded girls
of both troops. Mrs. Jack Loucks |
gave a short talk.
Troops 54 and 149 presented |
t | folk dances and a pantomine ‘The |
| Old Woman and the Peddler” un-
der the direction of Mrs. W. E.|
McQuilken. In the cast were]
Joanne Lewin, Mary Polacky, and |
| Charlyn Reinfurt. An international |
| Candlelight ceremony by Troop 54, |
| directed by Mrs. Fred Butcher con- |
| cluded the program. |
Store, was born on April 29, 1869, |
in Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County. |
His perents were the late Daniel
H., and Jane Brown Evans, pioneer
WILLIAM H. EVANS, SR.
Tables were decorated in green |
and yellow with the Girl Scout
| trefoil, the main centerpiece being |
| a maypole, surrounded by foreign |
a : :
Fe Bans crepe paper dolls and flags of all |
Schools and Wyoming Seminary. Lous, made by Troop 54. Din- |
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JACQUELINE MAHONEY
Jacqueline Mahoney, with her
shack | at the May Day Festival to be Ashley; sons, William H., Sandusky,
should be a credit to the commun- | given by Dallas Township High | Ohio; Daniel H., Danville; Sheldon
What could he do about it| School on Thursday, May 5 at 10|T, Shavertown; Donald J. Evans,
| past eighteen years.
nor was in charge of Mrs. William |
Diebert and Mrs. Richard Robbins, |
assisted by Senior Scouts of Troop |
149 |
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After his marriage to the late Ida |
May Thomas Evans, he resided for |
some years in Edwardsville. He |
| also lived for many years in Ashley, | |
Dorranceton and Forty Fort. He |
has lived in Shavertown for the
To Study Curriculum |
A member of Coalville Lodge, Lehman and Kingston Township |
F. & A. M. Ashley, he received his | Schools will be dismised one hour |
fifty-year pin from that organiza- , early at 2:30 next Thursday so that |
tion last August. He is a member | teachers may attend curriculum re- |
of Caldwell Consistory and has been yigon meetings at both schools.
a communicant of St Stephen's Similar meetings were held some |
Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre for Yous A and another meeting |
many years. He is a charter mem- | "'= °¢ 2€ ater.
ber of Wilkes-Barre Aerie Fraternal
Order of Eagles. Frank M. LeGrand |
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Mr
Joining in to wish Mr. Evans a . |
happy eightieth birthday are these . and Mrs. Lewis LeGrand of |
relatives: a brother Dr. Daniel A.|Forty-Fort announce the birth of a |
son, Frank Malinowski in Homeo-4
pathic Hospital on Tuesday, April!
26. Mrs. LeGrand is the former
Nancy Malinowski. Mr. LeGrand is
ity.
il! how much help did he need? |am. The event will be held re-|Dallas, and daughter, Mrs. Paul R.|the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Le-
Th tter walked to the rail. gardless of the weather. Affair will | Daily, Shavertown; also these | Grand of Baldwin street, Dallas.
B Sa tormod himeelf about | Pe held indoors if it rains. Miss| grandchildren: William H., 3rd, |This is their first child.
road track,
and looked at his home with the!
eye of an incoming passenger. It |
had never occurred to him that |
his shack was a disgrace to a pro- |
grssive community. |
The committee skirmished around |
and provided materials, the squat- |
ter built himself a small, snug, |
two-room house, the committee |
furnished paint, and the job was |
complete. The squatter added the |
Mahoney was elected by Senior |
High School members,
The all day program is in charge
of Mrs. Helen Guyler, assisted by |
Alfred Millner Camp, Mary Vahey,
Robert Dolbear and teatchers of
the elementary grades; Mrs. Char-
les Lipp and Mrs. Melvin Mosier,
refreshments; Melvin Mosier, prop-
erties.
The event which promises to be
a gala spectacle was attended last
and Nancy Jane Evans, Sandusky,
Ohio; Midshipman Daniel H. Evans,
Jr., U. S. Naval Academy, Anna-
polis, Md., and Jean Ann Evans,
Danville; Lois and Sheldon E. Mac-
Avoy, Shavertown, and Donald J.
Evans, Jr., and Terry S. Evans,
Dallas.
| Mr. Evans also has a sister, Mrs.
| Barbara Clark, Member
| of the congregation will teach.
| Wednesday evening in the Shaver-
| and the treasury has $2,560.00 set
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‘Scouts Receive Flags and Standard |
At Mother And Daughter Dinner
New Parish To
Be Permanent |
Diocese Will Aid
Prince of Peace
Under authorization of Bishop
Frank W. Sterrett of the Episcopal
Diocese of Bethlehem, the Prince
of Peace Episcopal Church has
been permanently established in
the Back Mountain Communities.
Beginning this Sunday at 9, a
Holy , Communion” service will be
ted in Shavertown Fire Hall
by v. William L, Williams, Vicar
of Peter's Episcopal Church,
Plymouth! Rev. Mr. Williams has
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Born if ussex, England, the
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Trucksville Man State College
Is Ninety-Three Honors Waters
Fred Boote Was Dallas Boy Wins
Born In England Livestock Award
Fred Boote, Carverton Road, ‘one James S. Waters,
of Trucksville’s oldest residents, | awarded the Arthur
celebrated his ninety-third birthday | Scholarship of $100, outstanding
anniversary on Tuesday. A birth- livestock award of the School of
day ‘supper. for members of his | Agriculture at Pennsylvania State.
immediate family was held Sun- College. The award wag anpoun-
day evening at the home of his ced by Prof. Ralph Paterson,
daughter, Ys Fre # Houghwout, chairman of the awards committee,
with who he Bs Tivol for after the faculty of the School of
Agriculture had approved.
has been
C. Bigelow
Mr. Waters, a junior in animal
husbandry, is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Daniel A. Waters, Huntsville
road, Dallas. The scholarship is
provided by the ‘“More Sheep More
Wool Association of the United
son of Jonathan and Sarah Boote,
Mr. Boote came to the United
States with his wife in April, 1908
and settled in Scranton. In 1909
pointed by Bishop Sterrett
and Incorporated Trustees of the
Diocese, to organize the new Par-
ish.
Within less than a month thirty-
seven families have signified their
desires to support the newly found-
ed church. On Sunday, May 8th,
at 10 o'clock, the first regular
Sunday School session will be held,
and several young men and women
At the organization meeting held
town Fire Hall, there were twenty-
seven parishioners present. Rev.
Mr. Williams presided, and report-
ed on the present financial and
material condition of Prince of
Peace Parish. A building lot for
the proposed new church is lo-
cated at the intersection of Pion-
eer Avenue and the Old Highway,
aside for building purposes. It al-
so owns Holy communion vessels,
an altar, candlesticks and a Cross. |
Edward Hildebrandt, of Trucks-
ville, has offered to contribute a
prayer desk, and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles W. Lee, Dallas, stated that
they would furnish the weekly
offering envelopes as their contri-
bution.
Rev. Mr. Williams announced
further that the Bishop and Trus-
tees are. watching organization pro-
cedings with keen interest, and
will gladly lend whatever support
is needed providing the members
of the new parish evince enthus-
iasm and help in placing the new
parish on a sound progressive bas-
is.
At the close of meeting, Rev. Mr.
Williams extended a cordial in-
vitation to all Episcopalians in the
Back Mountain to attend Sunday’s
services, and asked that the child-
ren attend the first Sunday School
session the Sunday following.
Dinner Speaker
Joseph MacVeigh will be one of
the speakers and also show mo-
tion pictures at the annual ath-
| He was married to the former Julia
| ton.
letic dinner at Wyoming Seminary.
the family moved to Trucksville. o ,
States”.. Winners are selected on
Parris, who died twenty-one years the basis of scholarship and ability
ago. displayed in sheep husbandry. All
Employed for many years at
Hillside Farms, as gardener and
manager of the greenhouses at
Conyngham’s lovely estate, he was
noted for his success in raising
every kind of flower and vegetable.
He retired in 1936.
Mr. Boote has been a faithful
member of Trucksville Methodist
Church for many years and still
attends quite regularly. It is ‘not
unusual to see him taking his daily
stroll when the weather permits.
In «good health, his eye sig™ aad
hearing are failing. 8
Attending the birthday party
were his children: Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Boote, Corning, N.Y.; Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Boote, Forty-Fort; |
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boote, Pittston; |
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Boote, Wilkes- |
Barre; Mr, and Mrs. Harry Post, |
and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Houghwout, |
all of Trucksville. Also present |
were several relatives, Mr. and Mrs. |
William Ciunden, Scranton and |
Mrs. Howard Wickheiser of Scran- |
Another son, George Boote
of Maine was unable to attend.
JAMES S. WATERS
winners have their names in
Mr. Boote also has twenty-four bronze, attached to a plaque on the
| grandchildren and nine great grand | wall of the Agriculture Building.
children. | This year’s winner is a graduate
. L : | of the Dallas Borough High School,
First Rid Movies
| where he played a baritone in the
First Aid movies will be shown |
| school band, was on the yearbook
staff and had a part in the senior
at Lake Township school Monday | play. At Penn State he has been
night at a combined meeting of | active in the Block and Bridle
Harvey's Lake Fire Company and | Club, a student livestock organiza-
Alderson Methodist Church Boy |tion, and is now its treasurer. He
Scout Troop 331 at 8:45. The fire- |is fitting an animal for the club’s
men will conduct a business meet- | annual show, the Little Internation-
ing at 8, prior to the picture. The
public is invited.
al Livestock Exposition, to be held
on April 30 on campus. In ad-
dition, Jim is one of the club's
representatives to the Ag Student
Council.
In State Competition
Lehman Township High School
Band, winner of the Regional Class
C championship, will leave Satur-
day morning at 6:30 in two special
busses to take part in the State
competition of the State Forensic
and Music League at Pottstown.
At Penn State he is majoring in
animal husbandry, and has been
devoting much of his spare time
in recent months to activities in
the sheep barn, where six breeds
of sheep and lambs are used for
classwork and experimental tests.
Kingston Township Schools to Present Annual Music Festival
final touch by planting flowers and | year by nearly a thousand spec-
enclosing his yard indnd picket | { tors, Music will be furnished by
fence, painted white to match the | Dallas Township Band, under dir-
house. They say that after the|. ijon of Alfred Millner Camp.
face-lifting was finished, the squat- |
ter spent most of his spare time | Boeke Mountain Teachers
admiring his handiwork from the |
railroad track.
Property improvement is in the |
air. What are we waiting for? Carl Lumley, supervising prin-
| cipal of Sullivan County Schools
| discussed Teachers’ Retirement at
} | a dinner meeting of the Sixth Dis-
Opens Electric School | trict attended by 130 members of
Ritter Electric School on Pierce the Pennsylvania State Education-
Street, Kingston, which opened its | al Association in Dallas Township
term this week, has been declared | High School Auditorium last night.
one of the “finest and best equipp-| Mr. Lumley is the man who
ed G.I. Schools in the State” by | wrote the bills on Teachers’ Re-
‘Hear Talk on Retirement
Of May Day Pageant i
Barbara Clark, Wilson College
| freshman and daughter of Mr. and
| Mrs. Peter D. Clark, Baldwin street, |
| will be a member of the cast for
Wilson's May Day pageant, ‘“Trea-
sure Island.” i
Gayest Wilson holiday, the all-
day fete will also include the
crowning of the May Queen, a
campus fair, two dances, a buffet
luncheon, and a student art ex-
hibit. Proceeds will go to the
Chambersburg Community Centers
and the World Student Service
Fund.
Veterans’ Administration officials |
and educators.
The school is owned by Philip
Ritter of Dallas, veteran automo-
tive ignition expert, and is es-
tablished in the former Miller Cas-
ket Building which Mr, Ritter re-
cently purchased.
tirement which are now before the
Legislature in Harrisburg.
The Sixth District comprises
teachers from Dallas Borough, Dal-
las, Lake, Lehman, Ross, Frank-
lin, Jackson and Exeter Townships.
The dinner was served by the
school cafeteria.
Plan Dinner Meeting
Raymond Kuhnert, president of |
the Supervising Principals’ Asso- The Music Department of Kings-
ciation of Luzerne County, has an-| ton Township Schools, under the
nounced a dinner meeting to be | direction of Verus Weaver, has
held at Irem Temple Country Club | prepared an outstanding program
on the third Thursday in May. |for its annual Music Festival to be
presented on Wednesday, Thurs-
day and Friday nights of next
week. The Festival will open Wed-
nesday night at the High School
Auditorium with a concert by the
High School Band and students
of vocal music. On Thursday night
their concert, and will be conclud-
ed Friday night when Trucksville
the program will shift to Shaver- | grade school pupils give their con-
town Grade School where Shaver- | cert at the Trucksville Grade
town grade pupils will present | School,