FROM. . PILLAR TO POST By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr. Now is the time to weed out your belongings, decide which items are 5 in the attic, and call Mrs. Joseph Schmerer, in charge gathering r of the rounding up of furniture and household articles for the annual Library Auction. There is a constant turnover of household goods, with chair after chair taking a back seat as re- placements are bought. Everybody . has something which can be con- tributed to the auction, and sold for the support of the Back Moun- tain Memorial Library. The annual auction is in no sense a rummage sale. Furniture which is too far gone to be of practical use should not be sent to the auc- tion but to a rummage sale. In the case of antiques which need some overhauling, a committee stands ready to do small repair work if the value warrants the expenditure of time and effort. Thousands of people from all over this area support the sale, which in the time elapsed since the found- ing of the library in 1945 has be- come a community institution, an affair looked forward to with great expectations. These prospective pur- chasers are anxious to buy, and they have a right to expect usable merchandise. Here are some suggestions as to the type of thing most readily sal- able: Small articles which can be easily transported in the family car or tucked into a pocket or hand- bag. It is astonishing what people will buy as a souvenir of the auc- tion. Many a hand-painted pin- tray, a relic of your grandmother’s china-painting days, has passed over the block at a fancy price and into the hands of a receptive bidder who considers it quaint and a worthy memento of the occasion. Flat-irons, the old fashioned kind with attached handle. They make good door-stops and bookends. Crocks of all varieties, from the beige variety with dark brown in- terior in assorted sizes, to covered crocks with blue flowers painted on them and glazed. These bring high prices. Small chairs which can be re- finished, especially chairs designed for children. Bird-cages and plant-stands. Glass-ware. The auction sale at- tracts dealers in milk glass as well as amat ur collectors and prices are good, bidding brisk. Material is beginning to come into the Barn for the auction. Small items and articles of intrinsic value are protected by locked doors. This makes is possible for you to clear out your surplus right away, while spring housecleaning is going on, and take it to the Barn for future sale without the feel- ing that it may be lost in the shuffle. You will be solicited within the next two weeks, but do not wait until the caller is ringing your doorbell. Plan now to contribute something to the auction, and then attend the auction to watch the fun. Dinner Honors Rural Carriers Davenport Served Forty-Four Years A dinner for two retiring mail carriers was given Saturday night at Oakdale Church Hall by the Association of Rural Carriers. D. E. Davenport, with a record of forty-four years of service in Sweet Valley, and Walter Billings who retired last December after completing forty years and some months of service on the route out of Trucksville, were guests of hon- or. Each honor guest was presented with a lapel pin depicting a horse and buggy, memento of the time when rural delivery was not mech- anized, with the dates of service, and in addition a wallet. Several State officials were pre- sent.. Guests from "Sweet Valley were Mr. and Mrs. George Bronson, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Davenport, and Luther Hunter who is taking Mr. Davenport’s Place for the present. Addison Woolbert and Walter Bil- lings were present from Trucks- ville. New Uniforms For Township Twirlers Dallas Township's six majorettes have brand new uniforms for the Band-Chorus Concert and the Mu- sic League competition. The out- fits, white worsted trimmed with red, are cut on the conventional pattern featuring a tightly fitted bodice and brief circular skirt. The majorettes did not have new uni- forms at the time the members of the band were outfitted, and have been wearing uniforms which did not match. Patsy VanCampen and Gloria Davis will wear their new outfits when they enter the twirling com- petition. Ray Transue Elected To Board Serves 0dd Fellows For Twelfth Year Raymond Transue, resident of Gordon street, Goss Manor since last August, was reelected for the twelfth consecutive year to the Board of Directors of the Aged Odd Fellows Home at the annual meet- ing April 12th at Middletown, Penn- sylvania. Mr. Transue has served as Sec- retary to the Board of Trustees, and as Chairman of the Admissions Committee, has been President of Luzerne County Past Grand Asso- ciation and Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Pennsyl- vania. Before building a house in Goss Manor the Transues lived on Divi- sion street, Wilkes-Barre, conven- ient to the Post Office, where Mr. Transue has been employed for the past thirty-two years. The Transues like the hills, and Mrs. Transue is close enough to neighbors so that she does not feel lonely when Mr. Transue goes to work at night five days a week. Meade McMillen Heads Shavertown PTA Group Meade McMillen was elected president and Calvin Hall, vice president at the meeting of Sha- vertown Parent Teacher Association Monday evening. Other officers were Mrs. Fred Anderson, secre- tary and Mrs. James Edwards, treasurer. Philip White presided. Mrs. Raymond Stroud and Philip White were chosen as delegates to the Back Mountain PTA Coun- cil. Mrs. Harold Ash and Mrs. Al- gert Antanaitis were named chair- men for the sixth grade party which will v¢ held some time in June. : Rev. William Williams, guest speaker, chose as his subject “The Three Basic Experiences of a Child". Phyllis Ann Sutphin Will Give Recital Pupils of Louie W. Ayre and Marion E. Wallace will present Phyllis Ann Sutphin in a piano re- cital at Kingston Methodist Church Thursday May 4, 8:30 p.m. Miss Sutphin, a senior at St. Louis Institute of Music, is making a concert tour sponsored by chap- ters of Pi Mu for the benefit of Pi Mu scholarship fund. Tickets may be procured from Barbara Dana, Richard Davis, Dawn Dick, Elinor Downes, Loiuse Kann, Wilma Robbins, or Harry Trebil- COX. Tue Darras Post MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Vol. 60, No. 16 Constitution Revised For Civic Center Schooley Appoints Five To Nominate 33 New Directors Representatives of clubs in some half dozen Back Mountain com- munities met Tuesday night at Dallas Township High School and got down to the routine business of adopting by-laws before a Back Mountain Community Center can begin ‘to function. Dr. F. Budd Schooley acted as temporary chairman and Mrs. Fred- ric Anderson was temporary sec- retary in the absence of Miss Mary Weir, whose mother is seriously ill. Atty. William A. Valentine pre- sented a tentative set of By-laws which he read in full and which were then taken up section by sec- tion for adoption. Many sections were adopted without comment but several created spirited discussion. Article 1 which had previously been specific in its phraseology to include fire house, dental clinic, library, etc., was amended, on mo- tion of Atty. Mitchell Jenkins, to be more general, “the purposes of the Association being to construct such Community Center as will adequately serve the communities concerned”. Sections patterned af- ter the American Constitution and containing meaningless phraseol- ogy were amended or dropped. Membership in the association will not be limited by color or creed and will be open to any one who pays $1. Members will at the annual meeting elect thirty-three directors, three for each of the eleven par- ticipating communities. The direc- tors will in turn elect officers of the Association and an executive board of eleven members from their number who may or may not rep- resent all of the eleven participat- ing communities. Officers of the Association will be president, vice president, record- ing secretary, financial secretary, treasurer and three auditors. The treasurer will be bonded. After the By-Laws were adopted, Dr. Schooley appointed a nominat- ing committee to choose directors and present their names for elec- tion at the next meeting on Tues- day night, May 2. Serving on the committee are Dean Shaver, chairman, Lehman; Mrs. Walbridge Leinthall, Lake; Floyd Chamberlain, Dallas Town- ship; Mrs. Fredric Anderson, King- ston Township; Mrs. Harris Hay- cox, Dallas Borough; Edward Mac- Dougall, Monroe; Earl Crispell, Nox- en. No representatives were present at the meeting from Ross, Franklin, Jackson, Noxen, Monroe and North- moreland Townships, but Mr. Mac- Dauggall and Mr. Crispell, Who (Continued on Page Three) FRIDAY, APRIL 21, Yost Replaces Rev. Harrison No Other Changes Are Made Locally Shavertown Methodist Church will welcome as its new pastor Rev. Robert DeWitt Yost as a result of the five-day Methodist Conference recently concluded at Binghamton, N.Y. Rev: Yost comes to this com- munity from Plains, where he has served since returning from the Pacific Theatre of War. He holds a Naval Reserve rank of Lieutenant Commander. He is a graduate of Syracuse, Boston University School of Theol- ogy, and Harvard Graduate‘ School. Before entering the Navy as chap- lain of an aircraft carrier, he held the pastorate of West Quincy Meth- odist ‘Church, Quincy, Massachu- setts. Returning to a former post at Plains is Rev. Howard Harrison, the present incumbent at Shavertown. Rev. Harrison graduated from Wes- leyan University, took graduate work at Garrett Theological Sem- inary, Chicago. Volunteering for chaplain in 1943, he studied at Har- vard, then spent 35 months as Cap- tain of the Chaplain Corps at Fort Bragg and on a Pacific Transport. Rev. Joseph Fiske, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Fiske, Dallas, has been transferred from Skinner's Eddy to New Berlin, N.Y. He graduated from Drew Theological Seminary in 1947, was ordained at Endicott, N.Y. in April of that same year. While a student he was assigned to the Maple Grove charge, a ter- ritory including Maple Grove, Mooretown, Meeker and Loyalville. Rev. Fiske graduated from Dallas Borough Schools and Wyoming Seminary before attending Theo- logical School. Rev. Fred Reinfurt is returned to Dallas Methodist Church. He has been in charge of this pastorate for five years. Rev. Ruth Underwood is returned to Harvey's Lake. She has been in charge since last August, when the former pastor, Rev. James Hilbert was moved to McClure, N.Y. and Rev. Underwood, formerly of Mec- Clure took over the Harvey's Lake charge. Tea for Scouts Girl Scout Troop 65, Laketon, will hold a tea at Laketon High School Tuesday, April 25 at 8 p.m., proceds to be applied on the Jul- iette Lowe Fund. Badges will be awarded. Mrs. Thomas Bartnick, Dallas, will talk on Japan. Mrs. Edgar Sutton, Carverton, will review the life of Juliette Lowe. Camp movies will be shown by Mrs. Helen Sel- lers, Girl Scout Headquarters. An original skit, written by Jean Ide, will be presented by the Scouts. Mrs. Florence Worth is captain of the troop and Mrs. Mildred Gar- inger, assistant. 1950 Reforestation At Lake Catalpa Nesbitt Farm Plants 78 Thousand Trees Nesbitt Farm, Lake Catalpa is embarking upon its fourth year of reforestation, with 78 thousand seedlings to be planted this spring. William Eckert, manager, says state-supplied seedlings include’ shrubs suitable for bird cover and food as well as trees. Spruce, hem- lock, red pine, with larch for quick timber, are the varieties selected. Because of disease, no white pine is included. Joseph Paddock, engineer from Plains, is planning the distribution. Larch seedlings which may be ex- pected to produce timber within twenty years, will be planted where there is moisture. Present pasture-land will be planted. In open spaces a tree planter capable of setting five thousand seedlings per day will be | used. Hand planting with a crow bar can handle a maximum of five hundred in the same time, The trees will be planted six feet apart, to insure tall straight growth. No hardwoods are to be set this year. Ten thousand seedling wal- nuts were put out last year, five thousand the year before. Cost of State-supplied seedlings according to Mr. Eckert has risen from $2 to $6 per thousand during the past four years, but seedlings are still a bargain. There is very little mortality in the varieties selected by the Nesbitt Farm. Cancer Drive Now Under Way Appeals Mailed To 2,500 Residents Hundreds of residents of the Back Mountain Area this week re- ceived letters from Peter D. Clark, chairman, appealing for their finan- cial support in fighting the scourge —CANCER. Checks, money orders or cash may be sent directly to W. B. Jeter, Back Mountain Area treas- urer for the American Cancer So- ciety, First National Bank, Dallas. Work of addressing more than 2,500 letters was done by a com- mittee composed of members of Dallas Junior Woman’s Club who were: Mrs, James Oliver, Jr. Clara Gross, Mrs. Edward Keller, Mrs. William Hanna, Mrs. Andrew Ondish, Mrs. Clyde Brace, Mrs. William Purcell, Mrs. William Stew- art and Mrs. Patrick Reithoffer. Folding and inserting were done by members of Senior Woman's Club who were: Mrs. D. M. Hutch- ison, Mrs. Harold Flack, Mrs. Har- ris Haycox, Mrs. Herman Thomas, Mrs. Don Clark, Mrs. Lettie Culver, Mrs. Michael Strub, Mrs. Jack (Continued on Page Three) Dallas Township Band To Present Concert Dallas Township's 66 piece band under the directorship of Alfred Milliner-Camp and in collaboration will present the annual Band-Cho with members of the School Chorus rus Concert Friday, April 28. Band-Aid committee announces concert committee as follows: Gen- eral chairman, Roy Tryon; advertising, Mrs. Chester Hartman, Mrs. Earl Lamoreaux; tickets, Charles Roberts and Ruel Lasher; Yaple and Henry Shupp. =~ patrons, John Members of Dallas Township Band, first row, left to right: Bertha Dickson, Nancy Carey, Dorothy Stash, Peggy Ann Maza, Jessie Carey, Marilyn Mosier, Rowena Sedler, Sue Parsons, Augustina Haradem, Louise Brzyski, Patsy VanCampen, Lois Ward, Barbara Brace, Julia Updyke, Karl Landmesser, Richard Wileman, Nancy Martin, Larry Shupp, John Yaple, Sally Lasher. Second row, left to right: Maty Sholtis, Regina Klein, Mary Louise Lipp, Winifred Decker, Patsy Pickett, Beatrice Race, Romayne Carey, Gloria Davis, Alfred Milliner-Camp, director, Theresea Chukinas, Theresa Polachek, Donald Weidner, Mary Kozick, Marion Parsons, Anne Jane Layou, Ralph Downend, Betsy Bunny, Barbara Vavrek, Anne Woieckow. ski.. Third row: Carl Gries, David Pellam, David Goddard, Roy Tryon, Sheppherd Moore, Nelson Ashburner, Leo Dunham, Virginia Brunges, Naomi Vietch, Donald Evans, Edward Kraft, John Hanson, Calvin Miets, William Hartman, Lee Lamoreaux, Kenneth Sedler. Fourth -row: Olin Race, Fred Brown, John oberts, Jerry Miers, Earl Lamoreaux, Kenneth Martin, Jerry Elston, Nelson Conden. Absent when picture was taken: ose Ann Patner, Priscilla Moore, Jean Mead, Robert Rice. 6 CENTS PER COPY The BOX SCORE Back Mountain Highway Deaths and Serious aceidents since V-i Day Hospitalized Killed 2 Group Endorses Plan To Form Town and Country Branch YMCA Plan Calls For Supervised Recreation In Seven Communities With Dallas As Hub “Go-Ahead” signal to request a Town and Country Comets Branch YMCA was given to an Executive Com- mittee made up of Back Mountain citizens, at a well attended meeting in Back Mountain Memorial Library on Monday eve- ning discussed all the aspects, pros and cons, of a YMCA pro- gram to serve six Back Mountain townships ‘and one borough, Featured Dancer CAROL MATHERS Carol Mathers, six years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mathers, Harveys Lake, entertain- ed between acts of the operetta presented at Lehman-Jackson Township School Friday night. Carol, costumed in rose pink with blue sequins, her blonde curls framed in a halo bonnet to match the costume, did a tap dance ver- sion of “Cruising Down the River.” She has been taking tap dancing from Billy, Wilkes-Barre, for about a year, and has appeared on Billy's program over Nanticoke’s W.H.W.L. several times. Her next air-appear- ance is scheduled for April 30. Carol's daddy, in the construc- tion engineering business in New York, got home a day early in or- der to be present at the operetta, and add his quota to the appreci- ative applause of the audience. Businessmen Hold Meeting Organization Elects Officers, Directors Businessmen from Harvey's Lake, West Nanticoke, Johnstown Mills, Ceasetown, Huntsville, Sweet Val- ley, Harveyville, Pike's Creek, Hun- lock Creek, and Cambra met March 22 and again on April 12 at Sweet Valley Hose House to organize a Credit Association for the area. It is felt by merchants of this re- gion that too great loss in bad ac- counts has been incurred, and that a clearing-house of information has become a necessity for mutual in- formation and protection. Kenneth Wiliams, secretary said in a letter of information distributed to all local businessmen, that the organization would act as an infor- mation center only, adopting a con- servative course and allowing each merchant option in extending or not extending credit in the light of information obtained through the organization. Each member has been requested to submit a list of his customers with credit rating ranging from excellent to sub-zero as a means of acquainting other merchants with good and poor risks. With a credit organization as a whipping-boy, a merchant is enabled to delay ex- tension of credit to a doubtful cus- tomer without embarrassment on either side. Officers are: Tom Lutz, Cambra, president; Kenneth Williams, Pike’s Creek, secretary; Robert Pollock, Hunlock Creek, treasurer; directors, Lee Honeywell, Butch Cragle, Don- ald Fedder, Vernon Cease, Dale Gearhart, Harold Britt, Sterling Barnes. To Serve Turkey A turkey dinner will be served by the W.S.C.S., Meeker Methodist Church on Thursday, April 27. Serving will start at 5:30. Lake, Dallas, Kingston, Jackson and Franklin, Lehman, The group came up with the un- animous decision that the Commit- tee be empowered to petition Wilkes-Barre YMCA Board of Di- rectors for the privilege of or- ganizing a Provisional YMCA. It was explained that the Pro- visional YMCA would request the use of the ‘Y’ name and insignia and secure counsel in raising its budget. It could then organize its own Board of Management and nec- essary committees, interview train- ed personnel and locate some form of headquarters space. When these provisions have been met the Back Mountain ‘Y’ Board would then apply for full status as a Town and Country Branch YMCA. Proposed plans, which still must be approved by the representative Executive Committee, will provide the necessary leadership to do a family type of program work in the six townships. Because of concen- tration of population it seemed log- ical and wise that the work would use Dallas Borough as a “Hub”. Therefore, some building to house office and meeting space is all that is envisioned at the moment. J. H. Godtfring, general secretary of Wilkes-Barre YMCA, explained that on a national YMCA scale the Town and Country Work is iden- tical with the proposed Back Moun- tain set-up. Homes, schools, fire- houses, churches, Grange buildings, and other facilities and resources of the various communities are put into full play in a wide variety of program events. About 2,800 young- sters are attending schools in these six townships. Periodic use of the Central YMCA building for boys or girls is_available on schedule. This is a similar practice for the other Branches of the Wilkes-Barre YM CA. Clubs Already Operating Under the supervision of Charles W. Royce, Extension Secretary of the Wilkes-Barre YMCA, a Dallas Hi-Y Club is already three months old and is actively engaged in a typical Hi-Y program. In the Dallas area, the Mohican Friendly Indian Tribe and the Comanche Friendly Indian Tribe were recently launched and have grown “just like Topsy”, with more requests for member- ship in the former group than is permissible. It is planned that sim- ilar club organizations would take place in such communities as Leh- man, Shavertown, Trucksvill e, Huntsville, Harvey's Lake, Noxen, Kunkle, Chase, Orange. In fact, wherever the need is shown, groups will be started. It is planned that Club work on the High School lev- el in addition to Dallas Borough can readily be launched in Dallas Township, Kingston, Lehman and Lake Townships. Regular YMCA programs can be fostered in all of these High Schools on the Junior High School and Grade School lev- el. Kids’ Baseball and basketball teams are certainly within the realm of ‘Y’' sponsored activities. Day camping and Away from Home Camping, Youth Canteen Centers, a large variety of Inter-Township contests all were declared possible in this community type of program which is relatively new in this part of Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is the only other Pennsylvania YMCA having a Town and Country Branch Operation. Planning Committee Notices calling attention to the meeting were sent out by the Tem- porary Planning Committee, con- sisting of Lewis W. LeGrand, chair- man; Clyde Cooper, Stephen Davis, Meade McMillen, Harry Ohlman, and L. L. Richardson. About one hundred Back Mountain residents have heard the reports as given by Mr. Royce, as to the survey con- ducted among the youth and adults of our community. The results were revealing and the unanimous action of the group at the recent meet- ing would indicate that there is a sincere desire on the part of the interested people of the Back Moun- tain to provide a wholesome, well established character building pro- gram for their youth. Young adult and adult work will also be featur- ed. LeGrand Chairman Mr. LeGrand, acting as tempor- ary chairman, was authorized to name a nominating committee to report back on Monday, April 24th. They are to nominate a chairmarm, a vice chairman, a recording sec- retary, and a treasurer, and such (Continued on Page Three)
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