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More Light Than Heat
Every parent who is sincerely interested in the educa-
tional welfare of his child should find some way to attend Vol. 60, No. 33
the meetings of The Back Mountain Committee for Better
Schools.
He will learn there through an interchange of ideas
with his neighbors in his own and neighboring townships
that nothing is wrong with our schools that cannot be
overcome by sincere study and understanding of the
problems of ‘our school boards and of those charged with
the administration of our schools.
If there is a single slogan that could be applied to the
Back Mountain Committee it is “Let there be more light
than heat” in the solution of our common school problems.
Through the generous use of sub committees on which
many members will serve, the Committee hopes to learn
in the weeks ahead more about our own schools and
what is needed to make them better.
It is not starting out with any pet peeves, but is reach-
ing its conclusions scientifically after all of the evidence
is in.
There will be times when its accomplishments will
seem slow, when some will become impatient for action,
but good hard sense will prevail and the conclusions of
the committee will be respected by parents, taxpayers,
school administrators and school boards alike.
If you are genuinely interested in your child, your
school and your community, you will put your shoulder
to the wheel and push.
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PILL
AR TO POST
By Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks, Jr.
A familiar voice came over the wire, and Bess Klinetob was on the
line.
It has been some time since Miss Klinetob has gleaned local items
from Sweet Valley, but no sooner did she return from Afton, N. Y., than
she sharpened her pencil and started the Sweet Valley roundup.
We passed the time of day, and started to take notes.
said &-
Charles Long entertained—",
the disembodied voice at the other
end, then the line started buzzing.
1 hung up and returned to de-
ciphering heiroglyphics scratched
hastily upon a pad in response to
a former phone call.
The phone rang, and there was
Miss Klinetob. “Now did you get
that whole item about the Longs
before somebody cut us off?” she
inquired. \
“I got as far as Mr. and Mrs.
Long, and that’s all.” ;
“Well, I'll give it to you again.
Got a pencil? Must be something
wrong with this phone. Every
unite . staid talking to somebody,
I get cut off. Didn't use to be
that way. I could give you six
pages of Sweet Valley notes and
nobody ever thought of cutting
in.”
“It's the new dial system. It
cuts you off after seven minutes.”
“Seven minutes? I wasn't talk-
ing more than three minutes that
time. I just got started telling you
about Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long
entertaining ”
This time there was a brief in-
terval employed in answering the
other telephone. Then the first
telephone rang again.
“Well, isn’t that the limit? How
does the phone company think any-
body can get items to the paper?
Now that automatic cut-off is O.K.
for some of the long winded people
on the circuit, but when it is a
matter of business, it's different”.
“Uh-huh, I was trying to get
some dope on the school directors’
meeting one day, with an obituary
on the side and a spot of Lake
Silkworth Water Carnival, and it
took three connections to wind up
the business.”
“Well, that's the way
Got your pencil? Mr.
Charles Long entertained
This time there was no interval
at all before the other desk phone
jingled. 'The receiver emitted blue
sparks. When these had faded
to a pale lavender, I adjusted the
ear-piece, one eye on the clock,
one on the pad of paper.
“Well, you probably got all that
information on Mr. and Mrs. Char-
les Long before we got cut off,
didn’t you?” :
It seemed too cruel to suggest
that the information had been fed
into an empty wire, so we started
on Rev. and Mrs. Ira Button, and
worked through the Alfred Bron-
sons before the familiar warning
signal was heard. Miss Klinetob
speeded up. ‘Now be sure to get
this relationship right”, she warn-
ed, “last time the paper said it
was her brother-in-law, but it isn’t
her brother-in-law, it's his sister-
in-law, and you mustn't mix up
the families that way. Families are
touchy. So here it is. Mr. and
Mrs. n .
The wire was dead again, and my
evening transportation stood in the
doorway, suggesting that it was
five fifteen.
I assayed the meager stack of
notes on Sweet Valley. “There'll be
a lot more, you'd better empty
some wastebaskets”.
The phone rang. “You know”,
said Miss Klinetob,” “This would
set me crazy. You get your thought
all organized and then you have
to speed up before you get cut
off. Don’t know why they ever
installed this system anyway. Must
set business people wild. You'd
be giving an order to the grocery
store and get halfway through the
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it goes.
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Mr. and Mrs.
W.S.C.S. To Hold
Flower Show
Flowers, Vegetables,
Hobbies Welcomed
Annual Flower Show sponsored
by W..S. C. S. Trucksville Metho-
dist Church will be held next
Thursday at the Fire Hall, after-
noon and evening, starting at 3
P.M.
Exhibitors are asked to enter
their flowers or vegetables Wed-
nesday evening between 7 and 11
P. Mor on Thursday morning until
il.
Hobbies and collections will be
on display and eligible for prizes,
and home-baked goods will be on
sale. A door-prize will be award-
ed in addition to ribbons for classes
and special awards presented for
flowers, vegetables, and hobbies.
Judges are Miss Adelia Stevens,
Miss Helen Crane, Ray Shiber, and
Mrs. Ruth Darbie.
Mrs. Don Finney, last year’s
chairman, again heads the show;
Mrs. John Dykman, Mrs. Dorman
Schooley, Mrs. S. D. Dilcer, Mrs.
William Glace, and Mrs. Albert
Williams have charge of baked
goods; Mrs. Cedric. Griffith, Mrs.
William Clewell, Mrs. G. W. Nichols
and Mrs. Robert Griffiths, hobby
show; Mrs. Sheldon Jones, Mrs.
S. D. Dilcer, Mrs. Levi Crews, Mrs.
Albert Williams, Mrs. Ray Finney,
Miss Loretta Olver, and Mrs. J.
Herbert Dewitt, registrations; Mrs.
Herman Reese, Mrs. Norman
Stookey, Mrs. Sheldon Bennett, and
Mrs. William Strausser, classifica-
tions; Mrs. C. S. Hemenway, Mrs.
Ben Post, and Mrs. Morris Lloyd,
door; Mrs. Ray Finney, and Mrs.
Stanley Henning, publicity.
Lake Schools
Open Wednesday
First Grade Expects
Big Registration
If registration for the first grade
at Lake Township runs between
forty and fifty, as George Taylor,
supervising principal expects it to
do, the enrollment will be divided
and two classes formed. Plans
have been made to take care of
this contingency, with an extra
room available and a teacher ar-
ranged for.
Playground apparatus including
a merry-go-round, a -jungle-gym,
teeters, swings and slides have
been installed on the playground,
with recently acquired acreage
across the road toward Harveys
Lake graded and seeded for soft-
ball diamonds and outdoor basket-
ball courts. Equipment has been
in storage ever since purchase last
year by the school board, waiting
for sufficient room to erect it.
The High School building has
expanded its shop facilities to keep
pace with its stepped-up shop pro-
gram, and greater laboratory space
and equipment has been installed.
A new full-time nurse, Mrs.
Hilda Leinthal, has been engaged
to replace Miss Martha Humphrey,
nurse for the past two years.
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' BOX SCORE
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
Hospitalized Killed
DALLAS | 6 12
DALLAS TOWNSHIP | 1
“LEHMAN Ed 1
7 KINGSTON TOWNSHIP 38 5
JACKSON TOWNSHIP 2
MONROE TOWNSHIP 3 1
"ROSS TOWNSHIP 2
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION LAKE TOWNSHIP 0 i
’ FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP Ie
TOTAL 64 | 23
Booster Day
Surges Ahead
Center Board Hears
Heartening Reports
® preparations for Back Mountain
Community Booster Day are on
schedule, according to reports made
by committees to the Executive
Board on Tuesday evening. Mrs.
Arthur Newman, general chairman
and originiator of the project, feels
that “September 16 will see this
area’s biggest and best Booster
Day.
James Gansel, announced chair-
men for each parade division: M.
J. Brown, parade marshall; Ord
Trumbower, Dwight Fisher, Harry
Bittenbender, horses; Joe Schuler
and Dave Schooley, fire companies;
Jim Gansel, State and local police;
Norman Smith, bands; Calvin Mec-
Hose, civic organizations; John
Nash, American Legion; Ken Rice,
farmers; Al Bowman, businessmen.
State Police will send two white
cars and enough men so that local
officers can walk in the parade
without guarding the intersections.
To eliminate tying up the main
highway, the parade will make a
circuit of Church Street, Lake
Street, and Center Hill Road, pass-
ing through the parking lot at the
Acme, the parade forming and dis-
banding at Dallas Township sehool.
Little girls under ten in the
doll parade will march a limited
distance with their elders and be
transported the remaining distance
in cars, dropping out or joining
the parade en route according to
later instructions. They will have
their own parade on the athletic
field at 2 P.M. This feature is be-
ing sponsoréd by Dallas Woman's
Club, with Mrs, Gus Condoras as
chairman.
Vic Cross has arranged two base-
ball games. Little-League All-Star
teams selected from Dallas, Trucks-
ville and Shavertown teams, and
an adult game between winning
teams of Back Mountain League.
White elephant booth will be
in charge of Mrs. Floyd Chamber-
Rotary; fish pond, Dorothy Dodson,
Kunkle 'Silver-Leaf Club;
goods, Mrs. David Joseph, Kiwanis;
refreshment, tent, Senior Girl
Scouts, Dallas; Mike Godek, pony
rides.
Mrs. Guy Dunham is chairman of
the Turkey Supper which will be
served cafeteria style in the school
dining room. The menu now con-
templated is roast turkey, season-
able vegetables, mashed potato, hot
biscuits, gravy, ice cream and cake.
Dinner will start at 5 P.M. and
continue until all are served.
The evening dance, sponsored by
Dallas Junior Woman's Club, will !
feature both square and modern
dancing, with Al Hudak and his
orchestra and the Black Bow Trio
furnishing dance music.
Replacements on the Executive
Committee are: Fred Swanson,
taking the place of Mrs. Robert
Payne; Mrs. Ross Lewin, replacing
Ted Wilson for Dallas Township;
Mrs. William James replacing Wil-
liam Storey, Mrs, Carl Sickler re-
placing Mrs, Clarence Besteder for
Centermoreland.
Floyd Chamberlain, Dallas Town-
ship school director, reported a
discrepancy between the asking
price of $28,000 for twenty acres
of the Van Horn Estate, and the
$10,000 * offered by the school
board in proposed condemnation
proceedings. Location. for : the
Community Center may depend up-
on closing the gap between the two
figures, as the proposed location is
a portion of the land under dis-
cussion. An alternate location on
the town side of the Dallas Town-
ship school building was suggested
by Mr. Chamberlain. !
Present at the meeting were:
Norman Smith, president; Mary
Weir, secretary; Leonard Bruce,
Mrs. Arthur Newman, Dr. Bud F.
Schooley, Floyd Chamberlain, Mrs.
Ross Lewin, Mrs. Alva Eggleston,
Mrs. William James, Mrs. Guy
Dunham, James Gansel, Hub Pes-
avento, Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks.
Two Octogenarians
Celebrate Birthdays
Mrs. Allie Morris, Franklin
Street, and William Cairl, Cemetery
Street, celebrated their birthdays
on Monday. It was Mrs. Morris’
eighty-sixth, Mr. Cairl's eighty-
second.
Mrs. Morris, because of recent
bereavement in the family, did not
have a party, but received many
gifts of flowers and many cards,
with friends calling throughout the
day to wish her well.
Mr. Cairl also celebrated his
birthday quietly at home, with gifts
from friends and relatives to mark
the occasion. Mrs, Cairl will mark
Jer eighty-second birthday in No-
vember. .The couple recently en-
tertained at their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950
IN 3
GOLFER STUNG BY HORNET
COLLAPSES ON 15TH, SPENDS
NIGHT UNDER OXYGEN TENT
It happens every once in so
often that somebody is alergic
to bees, or wasps, or hornets,
or anything which generates
formic acid. When these un-
fortunates meet up with the
business end of an insect, they
suffer.
Henry W. Davis, Kingston,
stung on the hand by a hornet
at Irem Temple Country Club
Sunday afternoon, has re-
covered almost as suddenly as
he collapsed between the 14th
and 15th hole, bu# it took a
trip to Nesbitt H®spital and
twenty-four hours' under an
oxygen tent to pull him
through.
Dr. Edward Shafer, Kingston
who gave first aid on the scene
and sent the patient to the
hospital, gave it as his opin-
ion that the hornet had selec-
ted a vein for his puncture,
and that the entite load of
formic acid was delivered to
the heart.
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Lehman-Jackson
Starts Thursday
Cafeteria. To Serve
On Opening Day
Lehman-Jackson , Township
schools will open on Thursday, ad-
hering to regular daily schedule
governing classes and cafeteria.
Lester Squier, in discussing the
Thursday opening said that the
two preliminary days get new
pupils in the habit of working and
eating together, and that by Mon-
day of the following week it is a
matter of routine.
Lehman schools have a novel
arrangement for cafeteria service.
Classes are dismissed for lunch as
a unit, load their trays, and return
to their home-rooms, where their
teacher eats with them. This per-
mits closer supervision of eating
habits, and allows a teacher to
note whether any of the few pupils
who bring their lunches from home
are getting enough food. State
Aid cares for under-nourished chil-
dren by providing the hot lunch
necessary for good health and at-
tention to school work.
Last year 92% of the pupils
patronized the cafeteria.
Mrs. Frances Honeywell
To Be 88 On Wednesday
i Mrs. Frances Honeywell will cele-
brate her eight-eighth birthday an-
niversary with a family dinner on
, Wednesday.
| Moving to Shaver avenue, Shav-
| ertown, twenty-six years ago after
the death of her husband, the late
N. Curt Honeywell, Luzerne under-
taker, she resided there alone until
two years ago. She now lives with
her daughter, Mrs. H. M. Montz,
55 N. River street, Wilkes-Barre,
though she spends a great deal
lof time travelling jrom one daugh-
ter to another.
Thoroughly enjoying life, she
still runs circles around her chil-
dren and thinks nothing of making
the trip to Fredericksburg, Va., in
a day. She is a faithful reader
of the Dallas Post and an ardent
radio fan.
She has four daughters, Mrs.
Montz, Mrs. Charles Jones of Phila-
delphia, Mrs. Harold Shappelle of
Trucksville and Mrs. Lewis Jones
of Fredericksburg; also seven grand-
children and four great-grandchil-
dren.
While living in Shavertown, she
was an active member of Shaver-
town Methodist Church.
Jackson Firemen Plan
Social, Square Dance
Jackson firemen will hold a com-
bination Ice Cream social and Farm-
er Dance Friday evening, Septem-
ber 8 at Conyngham'’s Coach Barn,
Hillside Farm.
The firemen will serve ice cream
made right on- the “spot, home-
made cake with soda, coffee and
frankfurts.
Firemen will meet Tuesday, Sep-
tember 5 instead of Labor Day.
All firemen are urged to be pres-
ent to make final plans for Friday
night at the Conyngham Farm and
to lay plans for the annual Fall
Festival, Trucksville Fire House,
October 21.
Picnic For Husbands
Dallas Junior Woman's Club will
entertain husbands and friends at
Harveys Lake picnic grounds Sat-
urday night, September 9 at 7.
All members are asked to bring a
covered dish, corn, hot dogs, buns,
and table settings.
Machine Lands
On 17th Green
Four Young People
Have Narrow Escape
Four prominent young people
had a narrow escape from seri-
ous injury Sunday night at 8:30
when their Chevrolet sedan was
crowded off the highway and
went over an embankment at the
seventeenth green at Irem Temple
Country Club.
Shaken up were John and Alice
Daw .and Mike and Nancy Wood
all of Harveys Lake. They were
treated dy Dr. W. J. Daw who was
summoned from Harveys Lake and
who took them home. They re-
ceived x-ray examination at a hos-
pital the following day.
The party was driving toward
the Country Club from the West
Dallas entrance when they were
crowded off the State maintained
road by another machine which
failed to stop. The right rear
wheel left the highway but, Wood
who was driving, was able to keep
the front wheels on the road for
a distance of thirty feet. Then
the machine went down over a
thirty foot drop striking a tree
which clipped the right top side
and continued fourteen to sixteen
feet before the front end hit a
pine tree at the edge of the seven-
teenth green which prevented the
car from toppling over.
The highway at that point has
a narrow two-foot shoulder and
no guard rails.
Sails Aug. 23 On
S. S. Washington
Mrs. Jacob Anderes
Visits Homeland
Mrs. Jacob Anderes, Center Hill
road, Dallas, sailed for Germany,
August 23 on the United States
Liner S. S. Washington, for the
first visit to the land of her birth
since 1928. "She plans to. visit
friends and relatives in Upper
Bavaria, and also family and
friends of Mrs. John Dreher, Truck-
sville,.’a native of Schwaaben.
Mrs. Anderes has timed her visit
to coincide with the presentation
of the Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau, a pageant of world-wide in-
terest given every ten years.” Her
sailing schedule allows her to reach
the home of her brother in Ober-
ammergau with plenty of time to
spare.
She is accompanied by two, form-
er girlhood friends, the Misses
Bertha and Louise Bauman, of
Philadelphia. The trio will land at
Le Havre, thence go by train to
Paris en route to Munich.
Mrs. Anderes will return early
in December.
Martin Sets 7th
For Opening
Kingston Township Schools will
open Thursday. All students living
in Trucksville, Shavertown, and
Jackson Township bus pupils will
report to their respective school
buildings at 9:30 a.m. These
pupils will be dismissed by noon.
* Jackson Township elementary
school pupils will be picked up
along their routes starting at 8:30
A.M.
Kingston Township school buses
will start on their routes at 12:30
that day. All students expecting
to come to school by bus will re-
port to the high school by 1 o'clock
where they will be sent to their
respective rooms.
Elementary school pupils who
come by bus will be assigned to
Shavertown and Trucksville schools
so that each classroom will have
an equal number of pupils.
A beginner must have been
born on or before January 31, 1949
and must present a vaccination
certificate and a birth certificate
at the time of registration. Stu-
dents transferring from other school
districts must present a record of
birth, vaccination, and of previous
school grades.
The high school cafeteria will
serve lunch on Friday. The elemen-
tary schools will serve milk on Fri-
day. High school students wishing
to be served at the cafeteria will
bring 15 cents on Thursday, for
Friday’s lunch, and 75 cents on Fri-
day for the following week’s
lunches. All elementary school
pupils wishing to secure milk for
their lunches will bring 3 cents
on Thursday for Friday’s milk and
15 cents on Friday for the follow-
ing week's milk.
There be a meeting of all
teachers on Wednesday, September
6, at 10 in the high school library.
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Church Festival
Runs All Week
Favorable Location
Attracts Motorists
Five hundred attended the open-
ing Monday night of Prince of
Peace Festival sponsored by the
Men's Club. The festival, which
will continue through tomorrow
night, is located in the triangle
between Route 309 and Memorial
Highway, with unlimited space for
parking and easy exit.
The Goddard brothers ‘have a
concession for hot buttered home-
grown corn, there are the classic
hot dogs and hamburgs, pizza is
featured, and soft drinks and coffee.
Acres of home-made huckleberry
pie have been served whole and
by the piece.
Tommy Andrews serves rabbit-
burgers, a novelty for most motor-
ists, scarcely distinguishable from
chicken.
The bell, recently removed from
the Goss School and destined to
hang in the bell tower of the
church, is now hanging from a
stout iron standard on the festi-
val grounds with a chest beneath
it to hold donations to the build-
ing fund. Each donor is allowed
one pull at the bell rope and one
tap of the bell.
The Bingo game offers as prizes
baskets of groceries with a bag of
sugar on top and a cake of soap
buried inside, a greater lure than
the customary kewpie doll
Ground prizes, determined by ticket
stubs, are awarded each evening.
A purchase from any contributing
merchant of Wyoming Valley or
Back Mountain nets a ticket.
For the children there are swings
and games, Si Davis of Forty Fort
has the concessions for the festival.
General Chairman is Ralph Davis,
co-chairman J. Sheldon Cave; Ar-
lean Bowman, refreshments, assist-
ed by women of the Auxiliary;
Charles W. Lee, Grounds; Elwood
Hudson and Donald Evans, pub-
licity; Donald Clark and H. Weaver,
entertainment and prizes; Tommy
Andrews, posters; Howard Young
and ‘Bob Considine, beoths.
Dallas Schools
Open Wednesday
Township Cafeteria
To Serve September 6
Dallas Borough and Dallas Town-
ship schools will open on Weguass-
day, September 6. Both schools
have had desks revarnished, gym-
nasium floors refinished and a
good bit of interior decoration.
Both schools will open at the
usual hour on Wednesday, Dallas
Township will dismiss at 2 p.m.
The cafeteria will be in operation
on Wednesday.
Playground apparatus purchased
by the P.T.A. late in the spring will
be installed at Dallas Borough
school shortly after the opening.
The home economics room has been
redecorated.
The dining room adjacent to the
cafeteria at Dallas Township has
been finished. It was used last
year, but several things remained
to be done. Prior to that, students
took their trays from the cafeteria
to their own home rooms.
Grading of a hillock north of
the school is furnishing dirt for a
fill necessary in the athletic field,
and resulting in enlarged level
ground which may be used eventu-
ally as a parking lot or a small
children’s playground.
Dallas Borough will have two
replacements on the faculty, both
for teachers on leave. Eugene W.
Groff replaces P. E. Reithoffer who
is taking his Masters degree at
University of Florida; Mrs. Mary
C. Morgan replaces Mrs. Margaret
Garris, teaching fifth and sixth
grades.
Dallas Township has two re-
placements in the secondary school,
with one vacancy not yet filled,
that of Home Economics Instructor.
Miss Mildred Hart, Kingston, a
graduate of East Strudsburg State
Teachers’ College will replace Miss
Mary Mulderig as instructor in
Physical Education for girls; Rob-
ert Thomas, Plymouth, graduate of
Bucknell, will take over Science
and Coaching, succeeding Thomas
Edwards, In the elementary
school, Miss Betty Stubbs, Wilkes-
Barre, will take the fourth grade
post left vacant by the resignation
of Miss Mary O'Neill.
To Meet Wednesday
Back Mountain Volunteer Fire-
men Association will hold an out-
door meeting with substantial re:
freshments at the Trucksville Fire
Hall on Wednesday Evening, Sep-
tember 6, at 8 p.m. All firemen
are invited. Joseph Schuler, presi-
dent, will preside.
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Jordan Heads
Committee To
Study Schools
Paul Gross Elected
Vice Chairman, and
Mrs. Yeager, Secretary
Dr. Lester Jordan, was elected
chairman; Paul Gross, vice chair-
man and Mrs. Mary Yeager, secre-
tary of Back Mountain Citizens’
Committee for Better Public Schools
at a well attended meeting Mon-
day night at The Dallas Post Build-
ing.
They immediately took office re-
placing temporary officers, Francis
Ambrose, chairman; C. M. Brooke,
vice chairman, and Paul Mulcey,
secretary.
The meeting started promptly at
8 and closed shortly “after 10, a
policy established by Dr. Jordan
for all following meetings.
For the most part the meet-
ing was concerned with a report
of a survey of school health facili-
ties made by Mrs. John J. Welker
and Mrs. J. W. Gross in Dallas
Borough, Dallas Township and
Kingston Township Schools,
They presented a series of ques-
tions to the three high school
principals who could answer them
“yes” or “no”. Some of the ques-
tions were as follows:
Do you have hot and cold run-
ning water in all of your lavatories
every day? all answered “yes”;
Do you have bubbling water in
the drinki fountains all day?
all answerd® ‘‘yes”, qualified by
“poor water pressure sometimes
retards the
Do you have soap in lavatories?
Two answered “yes”. The third
said teachers have soap. in their
desks for children who want it.
Are there plenty of paper towels
and tissue? Three answered,
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yes’.
Do you have good drainage to
septic tanks? Three replied “yes”.
Are there air filters in the ventil-
ating system? All said they didn’t
know, but wondered if they were
réquired with univent system.
Do teacher's conduct daily health
inspection? Two replied “yes” in
elementary grades. Third said,
“that is for school nurse to decide.
Does the school nurse take sick
children home? Two principals
said they would take elementary
children home, or have a high
school pupil accompanied by teacher
or another student. Third said he
never takes children home and
there is no State law to require
it.
flow.”
Do teachers have first aid train-
ing? First, said he didn’t think
so. Other two said, “some may.”
Does school nurse have any other
work? All three answered “noth-
ing but her own work.”
Does nurse check absentees?
Two - replied, “no”. Third said,
“yes, if principal tells her she
makes visit.”
Does nurse have any classes?
Two replied “no”, one replied, “six
hours a week.”
Does ill child go home alone?
Two replied “no”, third replied
that he does not take ill children
home.
Do you have periods when build-
ing is completely ventilated all re-
plied in the negative suggesting
that thermostatically controlled
heating systems take care of ven-
tilation problems.
Mrs. Welker’s report contained
many other questions and answers
giving the committee a rather com-
plete picture of health provisions
for children in all three schools.
Dr. Jordan than asked Francis
Ambrose to explain a consolidated
report of enrollment figures for
the five school districts, Dallas
Borough, Dallas Township, Franklin
Township, Kingston and Jackson
Townships.
Copies of these figures, as well
as a summary of the previous
meeting were available for all pres-
ent. Dr. Jordan advised mem-
bers of the committee to keep in-
dividual letter files containing these
reports which will be supplemented
at every meeting with new reports
made by various sub committees
on some phase of school activity.
Because many more persons are
showing interest at each meeting
in the Back Mountain Citizens’
Committee, it was suggested that
the next meeting be held in Trucks-
ville Fire Hall. It was also voted
to have all general meetings of
the committee held on the second
Tuesday of each month.
Inspector Resigns
James Besecker has resigned as
Dallas Borough Building Inspector.
The position is being. filled tem-
porarily by Fred Welsh who will
probably be appointed permanently
at the next meeting of Borough
Council on Tuesday night.
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