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Editorially Speaking:
This Is A Workable Plan
For ‘more than sixty years this newspaper has watched all
efforts to bring Dallas Borough and Dallas Township Schools
together—die in committee.
For twenty of those years,
this newspaper has worked for
consolidated schools—not for the taxpayers and politicians but for
the kids that use them.
On Tuesday night E. S. Teter, County Superintendent of
Schools, presented the first workable, sensible plan for such an
accomplishment, Through the formation of a Joint Board by
Dallas Borough, Dallas Township and Franklin Townships, these
~ three communities can give their children superior and economical
education.
His plan has the added merit that it can be put into effecti
almost immediately—and, because of state aid, at very little addi-
tional cost to the taxpayers,
If it dies now, the three districts involved will—because of
compulsory increased teachers’ salaries—within three years be in
grave financial condition. This is alarming!
Mr, Teter has suggested that Dallas Borough School be con-
verted into an elementary building, grades one to six, for the
children of all three districts. This will involve the expenditure
of $275,000 for additional class rooms,
owned jointly by the three districts.
Under his plan Dallas Township High School will become
the high school for grades six to
and will become the property of the three districts.
Since the first construction would have to be in Dallas Bor-
ough (there are more grade school pupils than high school pupils)
it would appear on the surface
gain most from the arrangement. This is false. The first new con-
struction will be in Dallas Borough; but eventually the joint dis-
trict must enlarge”its high school building.
Lehman and Jackson Townships have already entered into
a joint Board agreement. Lake, Noxen and Monroe Townships
have their plans well laid. Joint
instruction for their children and substantial state aid will lower
their costs. This state aid is not
Since Lehman and Lake are many steps ahead of Dallas
Borough, Franklin and Dallas Townships, they will not consider
a proposal for a million dollar central high school to serve the
Tue Darras Post
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The building will be
twelve, for all three districts—
that Dallas Borough stands to
boards will give them superior
available to individual districts!
whole Back Mountain Area. Lake Board rejected the idea Wed-
nesday night. Lehman's application for a loan from the State
‘Building Authority to construct additional school facilities has
already been approved.
~~ This leaves Dallas Township, Dallas Borough and Franklin
~ Township to work out their own salvations. :
g Superintendent Teter has pointed the way. It will be well
~ for every parent to study his plan for its acceptance breaks down
the barriers of seventy-five years—and opens the way to the kind
of schools the Back Mountain deserves!
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FROM.
PILLAR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M.
B. Hicks, Jr.
Without presenting a mass of indigestible statistics, it seems to us
that ‘the matter of Compulsory Health Insurance, which being freely
translated means Socialized Medicine, should be discussed pro and con
as freely as possible and as quickly as possible, before a system is foisted
upon us.
~~ Boiled down to its bare ‘boiies,v-
the issue at stake is this: are we
willing, as citizens of the only free
nation left on earth, to exchange
our birthright of freedom and ac-
tion for a mess of political pottage ?
Is there anybody who can doubt
that a compulsory health program
will add so many bureaus to an
already dangerously overloaded fed-
eral government, and so increase
the already staggering burden of
taxes that the net income of the
nation after taxes have been de-
ducted will shrink to an alarming
extent ?
The medical profession, honored
through the ages by tradition as
well as by accomplishment, is
fighting for its very life. Once allow
a doctor to be reduced to the rank
of a warrant officer and the foun-
dation has been laid for the aban-
donment of the medical profession
as a career by every promising
young man who has more than av-
‘erage brains and ability. The qual-
ity of service will inevitably deter-
jorate, while its cost to the ulti-
mate consumer, the patient, sky-
rockets.
Voluntary Health Insurance is a
fine thing. Insurance companies are
offering such service at a reason-
able rate, available to everybody,
at a cost not exceeding normal ex-
penditure for small luxuries. Good
health insurance is an ace in the
hole against ruinous medical ex-
pense. It should be the norm, a
regular part of every budget. Much
progress has been made; much
more is in the cards for the near
future.
Compulsion is something which
does not go down with the rank
‘and file of Americans. We suspect
‘too paternalistic a government. We
like to manage our own affairs,
make our own mistakes, paddle our
own canoes. We feel that educa-
tion in better health habits and
ket the cost of unavoidable illness
is the answer, not a staggeringly in- |"
“creased load of taxation to support
bigger bureaus. :
Somebody has to pay for all
paternalistic benefits, just as some-
body has to pay for the school
system. Is there any doubt in any-
Library Story Hour
Now Has Two Readers
The Library Story Hour every
Saturday morning from 10:30 to
11:30 continues to grow in pop-
ularity with many mothers leaving
their children at the library while
they do their shopping.
So large has the group of listen-
ers become that it is now into two
sections with Mrs. Janet Smith
‘reading to the smaller children
while Mrs. Elizabeth McQuilken
| Franklin Street,
Heart Campaign
Gets Under Way
Citizens Are Asked
To Give For Research
Red plastic hearts of the Am-
erican Heart Association appeared
on the counters of all stores and in
the offices of all physicians in the
Back “Mountain area this week as
the American Heart Association
opened its campaign here for funds
to continue research work.
Appropriate to Valentine Week,
the red heart banks will be one of
the means by which local citizens
can contribute to the 1950 cam-
paign. Henry Peterson has charge
of this phase of the campaign.
Small plastic heart banks will
also be distributed in all schools
by George Taylor, principal of Lake
Schools, who has charge of school
solicitation.
Mrs. Charles W. Lee, co-chairman
for the Back Mountain Region
opened the campaign Wednesday
night when she spoke at the meet-
ing of Dallas Senior Woman's Club.
She will be assisted by Mrs. Harry
Ohlman who will have charge of
direct mail solicitation, and contact
with all club and church organiza-
tions. Herbert Dreher will be in
charge of distribution of literature
and the Heart Quiz.
General chairman is Howard W.
Risley. Those who wish may send
their contributions direct to Back
Mountain Campaign Headquarters,
% The Dallas Post or to Northeast-
ern Heart Association, 130 8S.
Wilkes-Barre. See
the 1950 Heart Campaign advertise-
ment on page 3 of this issue.
Damage Traffic Standard
A large U-Drive-It truck from
Scranton delivering merchandise to
Hislop’s Market and driven by Jack
Taylor crashed into the traffic light
standard near Henry's Jewelry
Store Wednesday afternoon. Dam-
age was slight and soon repaired
by one of Paul Shaver’s electricians.
Rotary Ann Meeting
Women of Rotary will meet at
Thursday, February 16. Reserva-
the Irem Country Club for dinner
tions should be made with Mrs. L.
L. Richardson by Tuesday.
Book Club To Meet
The first meeting of the Library
Book Club under the leadership of
Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2. There
will be a book discussion and other
Principals in the first graduation
ceremonies at Jackson - Lehman
Veterans Vocational School Tues-
day night were: left to right, back
row, William Kiel, instructor; Ray-
mond Searfoss, instructor; William
Holloran, Veterans’ Administration;
Charles Nuss, president, Lehman-
Jackson Board; Howard Newcomb-
er, area supervisor of vocational
agriculture; Russell Ruble, shop in-
structor; front row: graduates Ed-
ward Dropchinski, Stephen Skopic,
Fred Stroud, Stanley D. Keller,
Michael J. Niemchick, and Charles
L. Patla, Warren Sutton, also a
Seven Veterans Graduate From Vocational Course
graduate was not present when this
picture was taken. The graduates
have attended the school since Sep-
tember 1948. Entertainment was
provided by Lehman High School
Band with vocal solos by Charles
Aiducavage.
PHOTO BY HUDSON
James Hutchison, Luzerne County
Farm Agent will speak on Farm
Ponds and show two motion pic-
tures, ‘Reducing Rural Fire Haz-
ards” and “Construction of Farm
Ponds” at the meeting of Back
Mountain Volunteer Firemen’s
Association Tuesday night when it
meets as the guest of Nexen Fire
Company at Noxen.
Having epproved the applications
of Huntington Mills and Franklin
Fire companies for admission, the
Association now numbers twelve
companies.
Appointed representatives of
each company to the Board of Gov-
ernors of the Association will pre-
sent their credentials at the Noxen
meeting and the Board of Gover-
nors will then elect a president,
vice president, secretary, treasurer
and other officers.
Companies represented in the
Association now cover more than
400 square miles of territory.
The Noxen Company has re-
cently obtained its own building
and there will be formal ceremon-
ies in connection with acceptance
of the building.
There will also be a number of
committee reports.
New Lion's Club
Formed At Lake
Calvin McHose Is
Named President
More charter members will be
accepted tonight at a dinner meet-
ing of the newly formed Harvey's
Lake Lion's Club at Brokenshire’s
Harvey's Lake Hotel.
At an organization meeting held
last week at the home of Ben
Banks, Harvey's Lake, Calvin Mec-
Hose was elected president; Dean
Shaver, secretary, and Fred Broken-
shire was appointed head of the
committee to arrange for a charter
meeting. Sheldon Cave was named
chairman of the membership com-
mittee.
Attending the meeting were:
Atty. Joseph O'Donnell, deputy dis-
trict governor of Lions and Ezra
Moyer, district representative; An-
drew- Kizis, Emerson Schmaltz,
Harold S. Donnelly, James O’Con-
nell, Carl Shiner, Fred Brokenshire,
R. Dean Shaver, Calvin McHose and
J. Sheldon Cave.
Flocks of Robins
Visit Lake Orchard
back of Mrs. Gilbert Carpenter's
home at Harvey's Lake are fickle,
usually showing up on blustery days
and disappearing during pleasant
weather.
The first appeared there this
year on January 9. Most of them
left by the eleventh and didn't
show up again until January 21
when a large flock arrived. Mrs,
Carpenter believes they come to
the orchard for apple seeds. But
she helps out by feeding them
raisins and bread crumbs. The past
few days they have disappeared—
possibly because the weather is
twelve years of age.
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interesting features.
fair.
The robins that visit the orchard
HUTCHISON TO SHOW HOW FARM
PONDS CUT RURAL FIRE LOSS
SOME PEOPLE CARE,
AND DON’T WAIT TO
BE ASKED TO GIVE
A few days ago Harry Ohl-
man, Back Mountain chairman
of the Red Cross Blood Bank,
received a note from Mrs.
Laura Rice. of Carverton Road
offering to give her blood to
the Red Cross Blood Bank and
asking for a few donor’s cards.
She said that she had received
blood and now wanted to give
hers to someone who -might
need it. She was on no com-
mittee and no one had ap-
proached her. Yesterday Mr.
Ohlman received another let- _
ter from Mrs. Rice. In it were
six blood donor cards signed by
her neighbors.
More Veterans
Offer Blood
Will Install Five
Basketball Boards
Six additional blood donors
signed up to give their blood to
the Red Cross: Blood Bank at the
meeting of Kingston Township Vet.
erans’ Association on Tuesday
night. -
They are: John M. Fink, Robert
D. Considine, Ralph Anthony, Ted
A. Poad, Franklin T. Hemenway
and Allen R. Malkemes.
It was also announced that the
Veterans are building five basket-
ball boards to be placed in strategic
vacant lots throughout the town-
_&
ship where youngsters can use
them. They will be located at
Carverton, Trucksville Gardens,
Center Street, Cliffside avenue and
Davis street.
Few people appreciate the com-
munity program sponsored by Vet-
erans’ Association, but it was
brought out at the meeting that
the stone wall in front of Kings-
ton Township High School Build-
ing, which the veterans promoted,
probably saved the life of a motor-
ist this week who ran into it and
would certainly have landed on the
railroad far below had not the wall
saved him.
The Veterans were also among
the first to point to the need of
having’ the Center Street bridge
widened, to support the short cut
to Fernbrook and to agitate for
the removal of obstructions from
the footpaths along all county and
State highways.
Additional Blood
Donors Announced
Harry Ohlman, general chairman,
has announced the names of the
following new blood donors to the
Red Cross Blood Bank:
Huntsville Methodist Church, Col.
and Mrs. Norman Smith, Alden F.
Wagner, Carol Lee Wagner, Mil-
dred Wagner; Jackson Fire Com-
pany, Walter I. Palmer; Dallas Wo-
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Announce Party
For New Parish
Catholic Daughters
Bid Gate of Heaven
REV. EDWARD HAGGERTY
General Chairman
Court Our Lady of Fatima, No.
1478 Catholic Daughters of Amer-
ica, St. Therese’s church, announ-
ces a benefit party to be held Feb-
ruary 21 in the church auditorium.
Proceeds will be for the Gate of
Heaven Church building fund.
Rev. John J. O'Leary is honorary
chairman. Rev. Edward Haggerty is
general chairman. Mrs. Michael
Chalowick is co-chairman. Members
who will act on Mrs. Chalowick’s
eommittee are: Mesdames William
Boyd, Edward Miller, Herman Sei-
ber, Thomas Wisnieski, Phillip Con-
iglio, Joseph Cullen, Bolish Luzin-
ski, Harry Jarrett, Alexander J.
Wazeter, Edward Borton, Arthur
Bouquet and Misses Elizabeth Be-
line, Lorraine Lukasavage, Ann and
Mildred Borton.
Mrs. John H. Stenger Jr., chair-
man of the ticket committee will be
assisted by Mrs. Algert Antanitis
and Misses Louise Evans and Nancy
Stenger.
Mrs. John Purcell, chairman of
bake sale will be assisted by Mes-
dames Stephen Tkach, Raymond
Laux, Joseph Rother, Eugene Hin-
dricks, Henry Mastalski, Daniel
Cowen, Jacob Beline, Clinton John-
son and Tillie Loveland.
Mrs. Joseph Wallo, chairman of
refreshments will be assisted by
Mesdames Frank Ferry, Joseph Po-
lacky, William Gavenas, Grant Sha-
ner, Guy Dunham, Francis Barry
and Mary Kamor.
Mrs. William Boyd is chairman
of publicity assisted by Mrs. John
Bush.
Mrs. Frank L. McGarry, Grand
Regent of the Court will have the
following officers of the Court assist
her on the reception committee:
Mrs. Robert Breslin, Mrs. Joseph
Gibbons, Mrs. George Z. Keller,
Mrs. Robert Williams, Mrs. Leland
Guyette, Mrs. Albert Pesavento,
Mrs. Robert Laux, Mrs. Henry Gal-
lagher, and Mrs. Joseph Hughes.
World Day Of Prayer
Annual World Day of Prayer will
be observed at Dallas Methodist
Church Friday afternoon, February
24 at 2. All church societies and
women of the Back Mountain area
are invited to. attend. .
Gay Nineties East
Plans Are Laid For Back Mountain
er Horse Parade
Joint Board Is
Proposed For
Three Districts
Grade School Would
Be In Borough; High
School In Township
Before a joint meeting of Dallas
Township, Dallas Borough and
Franklin Township School Boards
Tuesday night in Dallas Township
High School Library, E. S. Teter,
County Superintendent of Schools,
presented a plan for the joint op-
eration of the three districts.
Mr. Teter, who was introduced by
Supervising Principal Raymond
Kuhnert, stated that the plan is an
outgrowth of the State Building
Authority's refusal to grant a loan
to Dallas Township for school build-
ing purposes. It is a policy of the
Authority, Mr. Teter said, not to
grant assistance to school districts
that are building accommodations
for non-resident students (in this
case Franklin Township.)
Mr. Teter then explained exten-
sively how joint school boards op-
erate.
Each district maintains its own
school board of five members,
elected by each separate district.
In a joint district composed of
Franklin, Tallas Township and Dal-
las Borough, the joint board would
be made up of these fifteen school
directors who might in turn ap-
point a committee composed of
members from each district to op-
erate the schools; but the joint
board, as such, would have no auth-
ority to approve the budget or to
approve employees. Each individ-
ual board would adopt its own bud-
get and by majority only of that
board. Likewise approval of em-
ployees would be only by majority
vote of each board. In all other
matters the Joint Board would
have full authority.
Establishment of a joint district
will not effect teachers’ tenure, Mr.
Teter said. Appointment of teachers
would be on the basis of their ten-
ure. If it became necessary to dis-
miss some teachers because of the
jointure, the last hired would be
the first dropped.
Establishment of a joint board is
by contract among the participating
boards; it does not require the
approval of the electorate.
With this as a background, Mr.
Teter pointed out the advantages
of joint board operation.
Joint boards receive between
17% and 25% increase in funds
from the State Department of Pub-
lic Instruction as compared with
separate boards.
This means that the State's con-
tribution to the joint District would
cover all overhead costs, plus all in-
struction times the reimbursement
fraction.
Here Mr. Teter deviated to ex-
plain that under the present School
Code which calls for $200 increases
in teacher salaries each year for
the next nine years and an addi-
tional $200 increase for each teach-
er holding a master’s degree, 63
districts under the County Super-
intendent’s jurisdiction in Luzerne
County will have to raise within
their own districts one million dol-
lars to pay these increases. After
| the coming year the State will no
longer provide the funds to meet
these increases.
Districts operating as separate
units will face difficult financing
problems but joint districts will re-
ceive all overhead costs, plus all
instruction costs times the reim-
bursement fraction from the state.
Because of this financial assis-
tance the joint district has a tre-
mendous advantage in educational
opportunities for students as well
as in costs over the individual dist-
rict.
After taking all aspects into ac-
count, Mr. Teter said, his office had
come to the conclusion. that the
solution for Dallas Borough, Frank-
iln and Dallas Townships is a joint
board. =
The plan he outlined calls for
the creation: of a central secondary
school in Dallas Township High
School where there are adequate
facilities to take care of grades
seven to twelve of the three dist-
ricts. This building would be ex-
panded as the number of pupils
increased.
An elementary school would be
created for grades one-to six in
Dallas Borough by the construc-
tion of a $275,000 addition to the
present building.
The jointure, he said, would re-
sult in slight increases in taxation
for the three districts.
Current expenses for each of the
districts, Superintendent Teter
Business Association
Sponsors Event To P.
Held Easter Afterr
Plans got underway - Monday
night at the meeting of Lailas
Business Association for a Gay
Nineties Easter Horse Parade to
surpass any previous horse parade
held in Luzerne County.
More than 100 horses are already
entered in the event which will be
theld Easter Sunday afternoon at
2 under the sponsorship of the
Association. Backers are confident
that as many as 235 horses will |
eventually be entered. ;
The parade route will extend for
two miles from the intersection of
Route 309 below Dallas to the Rob-
inson Farm on Harvey's Lake High-
way, where arrangements will be
made for the convenient loading
of horses into vans.
Speaking for the Parade Com-
mittee, Al Bowman told the Asso-
ciation there will be no prizes and
no commercial entries although ar-
rangements' will be made to pro-
vide horses ‘and vehicles for any
group or organization that wants
to enter a Gay Nineties float. He
said it is hoped that spectators as
well as those entered in the parade
will wear Gay Nineties costumes.
William Stoeckert, general chair-
man, showed motion pictures of
previous Easter Horse Parades held
in Kingston that attracted between
75,000 and 100,000 spectators. Mr,
Stoeckert suggested that the local
crowd might run between 30 and
40,000. !
Harry Bittenbender of Plymouth,
one of the directors of the previous
parades held in Kingston, said there
would be no parade in the valley
this year, and that all horsemen
will cooperate to make the Gay
Nineties Parade an outstanding suc-
cess. ein
Arrangements will be made with
State Police and Volunteer Firemen
to police the parade route. :
The Business Association will
shortly have posters and entry
blanks printed and "all eatries
should be mailed to George Turn,
secretary.
At the conclusion of the discus-
sion on the parade, Harry Smith,
president, and George Turn, secre-
tary, spoke on the Red Cross Blood
Bank campaign and six members
signed as donors. -
Attending the meeting were
Francis Ambrose, Grace Cave, Jo-
seph Hand, Timothy LaBar, Norti
Berti, Lawrence Updyke, Dr. R. M.
Bodycomb, Harry Lee Smith,
George Turn, M. J. Brown, Harry
Bittenbender, Al Bowman, Eugene
Sick, Ord Trumbower, William
Stoeckert, Herbert Hill, Clark Hil-
debrant and George Stolarick.
Buto Teeters
On Embankment
Guard Wires Weak
Around Reservoir
Mrs. Harry “Buck” Edwards of
Huntsville had a narrow escape
Monday night at 8:30 when her
Mercury sedan slipped on the icy
road near her home, crashed side:
wise through guard wires and bal-
anced precariously over the Hunts-
ville Reservoir embankment,
A motorist on the other side of
the reservoir saw ‘the car go over
the embankment and came quickly
to her assistance, but not before Mrs.
Edwards had got out of the car and
started for her home a short dis-
tance away.
Olivers’ wrecker was summoned
and after considerable difficulty and
with the aid of several men towed
the car back up the embankment.
There was no damage. >
The highway at the intersec-
tion of Overbrook Road and the
reservoir road is treacherous. Guard
posts and wire are in poor condi-
tion and of little protection. In
spite of that, the road was unashed
Monday night or Tuesday, no lan-
terns placed where the guard posts
were broken and no attempt has yet
been made to repair the break. The
next motorist who slips on the ice
at that point will land in the res-
ervoir.
To Hold Alumni Banquet
At Township School
Reservations must be in by Wed-
nesday, February 15 for the Dallas
Township High School Alumni Ban-
quet which will be held in the High
School Saturday February 18 start-
ing at 6:30. -
Miss Marjorie Kitchen will act
as toastmaster and Miss Stella
Goldsmith give the invocation. Ron-
-d
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ald Doll will be guest speaker.