- well,
Lay Plans For
Library Growth
x Executive Board
Discusses Project
Ten ‘ative plans for most effective
use of the newly acquired building,
the former Parrish house, next door
to the Back Mountain Memorial
Library, Main street, Dallas, were
discussed at the Executive Board
meeting Tuesday evening.
With expansion facilities imper-
ative, because of a steadily grow-
ing volume of books and an in-
creased demand for space for meet-
ings, purchase of a supplementary
building in usable condition in-
stead of construction of an addi-
tion to the present library has
seemed advisable. A long-range
plan may result in a connecting
link of modern construction be-
tween the two almost identical
houses, at some time in the future
when costs of materials and labor
may be more moderate.
Harry Ohlman, Howard Risley
and Raymon Hedden will confer
on possibilities, reporting to a
special meeting of the Executive
Board to be called by Miss Frances
Dorrance, president, when tenta-
tive plans have been completed.
Miss |
Miriam
WM Lathrop, Mrs. Lewis LeGrand, Mrs.
Fred Howell, Harry Ohlman, How- |
ard Risley, and Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks. |
Present at the meeting:
Frances Dorrance, Miss
Richardson To
Expand Agency
Constructing Addition
To Lake Street Garage
Keeping pace with commercial
development along Lake street, L.
L. Richardson is expanding his
Dodge and Plymouth Sales Agency
with construction of a 32 x 58 con-
crete and steel one-story addition
to the rear of his building,
The new structure which is
lighted by large steel frame win-
dows will house the repair end of
the business and will be tied in
with the present lower floor which
is now used primarily as a parts
department.
Big overhead doors will permit
entrance of the largest sized truck
and trailers. Entrance to the shop
will be below street level and from
the driveway adjacent to the pres-
ent buildmg. 4 , |
An entirely new stoker fed hot |
water heating system will be in- |
stalled.
Construction of the new shop |
will permit use of the present
street level section of the building
for display purposes, parts depart-
ment and offices. Interior of the
building will be completely renov-
ated and a new front installed.
Since coming to Dallas in Oc-
tober 1938, Mr. Richardson has
built the business to the point
where further expansion of his dis-
play room and shop department are
necessary to meet the requirements :
of Dodge and Plymouth owners.
Boro PTA Plans
Family Frolic
Plans for the Family Frolic to
be held in the Dallas Borough High
School, Saturday, October 21 were
outlined at the first P.T.A, meet-
ing of the season Monday evening.
Durelle T. Scott, new president
was in charge. Mrs. Louise Col-
read the secretary's report
and Mrs. Michael Strub, in the ab-
sence of her husband, gave the
treasurer's report.
Four projects were suggested for
the year's activtiies: purchase of
additional playground equipment,
of a public address system, of a
flag pole and better stage lighting.
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
BOX SCORE
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
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Hospitalized Killed
WHAT COLOR DO YOU WANT DALLAS 6 12
DALLAS TOWNSHIP 1
JOHN AND DAN TO PAINT —pasAs , !
YOUR NEW WASTEBASKET ? X __KINGSTON TOWNSHIP |* 88 5
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John Ferry and Dan Robin- “MONROE TOWNSHIP A
hold have gone into business | —ROSS TOWNSHIP RELA
together, carrying out a waste- MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION T LAKE TOWNSHIP re [yf
basket project which they "FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP I 2
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that furnishes space for paint- 2
ing the two-gallon ice cream Irish Setter In Kennel Club Match Sunday =
containers salvaged from
Kuehn’'s Drug Store.
John, seventh grader in Dal-
las Borough High School and
equipped with one more tooth
than nature intended (ask
John for the details), says that
he and Dan, sixth grader, are
equipped to finish their waste-
baskets in almost any shade
of four-hour enamel desired,
and with a variety of decals
for decoration. The ice cream
container, cleaned and dried,
takes two coats of enamel
which serve to preserve and
further stiffen the waterproof
cardboard. The sample which
sat on the Dallas Post counter
on Tuesday afternoon was
tulip crimson with a Teddy
Bear decal on its side.
Policy forbids mention of the
price, but it is modest.
Miss Van Tuyl
Retires Sept. 30
Dallas Township
To Lose Veteran
Miss Lena Van Tuyl, with forty-
five years of teaching, thirty-one
in Dallas Township, will retire at
the end of this month, according
to Raymond Kuhnert, supervising
principal. The new retirement sys-
tem requires service of one month
on the current year in order that
the retiring teacher may enjoy full
benefits from the pension plan.
Miss Van Tuyl, a native of North
Moreland, has been a strong motiv-
ating force for consolidation all
through her teaching career. She
began teaching in a one-room
school in North Moreland in 1905
after being educated at the Fitch
School in Lockville and Wyoming
Seminary. In 1910 she taught in
Exeter for one year, for the next
two years in West Wyoming, re-
turning to North Moreland in
1913 for one more year. From
1914 to 1919 she taught in Kings-
ton Township, coming to Dallas
Township” Schools “In 11919.”
This was at a time when Dallas
Township was not consolidated, the
new building still a dream. Miss
Van Tuyl taught in the Goss
School until consolidation became
a reality and the four one-room
schools closed.
Since all Dallas Township pupils
were gathered in the one large
building, Miss Van Tuyl has taught
several elementary grades from the
fourth to the sixth, but has spent
the largest part of her time in the
sixth . No one has yet been found
to take her place, but several pos-
sibilities are under consideration,
according to Mr. Kuhnert.
Neighborhood Leaders
To Meet After Church
Neighborhood leaders of the Dal-
las Methodist Church” will meet at
the church immediately after the
service on Sunday. Leaders are
Mrs. Stanley Davies, Mrs. Frances
Quaill, Mrs. Carlton Reed, Mrs.
Ross Lewin, Mrs. Ray Shiber, Mrs.
Floyd Chamberlain, Mrs. Carl
Bailey, Mrs. David Evans, Mrs. C.
S. Hildebrant, Mrs, C. J. LaBar,
| Mrs. William Baker, Mrs. Jack His-
lop, Mrs. Floyd Ide, Mrs. J. C.
Fleming, Mrs. William Higgins, Miss
Gertrude Wilson, Mrs. Henry Welch,
Mrs. Ralph Brown, Mrs. Zel Gar-
inger, Mrs. Charles James, Mrs.
Arthur Wheatecroft, Mrs. John
Roberts and Mrs. William Reardon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Leslie Webster
Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. A. Leslie Webster
celebrated their twenty-fifth wed-
ding anniversary at their home on
Carverton road, Trucksville, Mon-
day, September 4 with a family
dinner.
The Websters were married by
the Rev. Fred Connell in Sayre
Methodist Church. Attending them
were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lane,
former Sayre residents, now of
San Bernardino, Cal. They have
three children; A. Leslie Jr. who
was married in October and is in
business for himself in Dover, N.J.
Herbert in the roofing business at
home, and Margaret Ann . Mar-
garet Ann enters the freshman
class at College Misericordia today
on a four year scholarship earned
as valedictorian “of her class at
Kingston Township High School.
She also won the American Legion
and the Literary Digest Awards.
She plans to be a laboratory tech-
nician.
Mrs. Webster is the former
Nancy Garrison, daughter of Mrs.
Margaret and the late Adewin Gar-
rison of Wilkes-Barre. Her father
Was an employee of Central Rail-
road until his retirement. Mrs.
Garrison now lives with the Web-
sters.
Mr. Webster comes from a long
line of lace ,weavers. When he
was a boy, he came with his par- |
ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Her-
bert Webster from Nottingham,
England. Settling first in Kingston,
N. Y., they finally landed at Wilkes
Barre where Mr. Webster worked
for the Wilkes-Barre Lace Co. until
his death. His son, A. Leslie, fol-
lowed in his footsteps and is also
employed at Wilkes Barre Lace as
a weaver. Young Leslie was with
the Lace Company until World War
2 and the U. S. Navy interrupted
his career.
The Websters are members of
the Trucksville Methodist Church
where Mrs. Webster is a member
of the Friendship Class. Mrs. Web-
ster is Deputy of the McKinley
Council Daughters of America and
Margaret Ann is youngest coun-
selor of the organization.
For their anniversary, the Web-
sters received lovely gifts, among
them a television set from Her-
bert—which they say works per-
fectly.
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Dauberts Visit
Ohio Hospital
Find Dean Improved;
Dal Discharged
One of the Daubert twins, Dallas,
injured in last Monday's troop
train tragedy, has been released to
proceed to Camp Atterbury; the
other twin, Dean, remains at
Wright-Patterson Hospital, Dayton,
to await complete healing of the
gash in the back of his head and
the reduction of bruises sustained
when he was catapulted from the
coach window at the moment of
impact.
Karl Metzger rémains in the
same hospital with a smashed toe
and body bruises. Both boys ex-
pect to be discharged shortly to
| rejoin their comrades at Camp At-
| terbury.
Two cars full of Dauberts made
the trip to Ohio over the past
weekend. Mrs. Edith Daubert, De-
rds road, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Daubert with small daughter Bar-
bara, Shavertown; Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Daubert, Dallas Heights, and
Mr. and Mrs, Chester Adams, ac-
companied by a family friend,
Charles Van Horn, visited the hos-
i pital and brought back first-hand
| information about the Daubert
twins and Karl Metzger. Burton
Daubert, a member of the guard
of honor accorded the thirty-three
Wyoming Valley dead, saw his
family briefly on Friday before
they started for Ohio, and furnish-
|ed details of the wreck.
Francis Quare
Waits For Cast
Critically Injured
In Troop Train Wreck
Francis Quare, 19, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Quare, is still in
the hospital at Coshocton, unable
to be moved after the disastrous
Utvelp trim tragedy of a week ago
| Monday.
His father, recently returned
|= a week spent in Coshocton,
reports that Francis is not able
to be moved for application of a
cast, and that until a cast can
be applied he will remain in Cos-
hocton flat on his back. Extent
of the spinal injury -is not yet
known, but there is a fracture of
j one vertebra. Medical authorities
j informed Mr, Quare that hospital-
| ization would be needed for a long
time, possibly from six months to
a year.
Mrs. Quare entrained for Ohio
upon Mr. Quare’s return, to spend
a week with Francis.
Thomas Hardick
Leaves Hospital
Scalp Gash Closed;
X-Rays Negative
Thomas Hardick, 12, Dallas
Township student who was struck
by an automobile Monday after-
noon after leaving the school bus
at the corner of Overbrook and
Pioneer avenue, spent a night at
the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, but
was discharged Tuesday afternoon.
There was slight concussion, but
X-Rays showed no skull fracture.
A gash in the scalp was closed with
six stitches, and brush burns and
! abrasions of hands, arms and face
were treated.
Officer Charles Metzger, sum-
moned to the scene from his traf-
fic station in Shavertown immedi-
ately after the car driven by Re-
gina Sperko, Center Moreland, had
struck the boy, found him lying
on the grass at the side of the
road, bleeding profusely from a
gash on the head. Together with
the boy's father, John Hardick,
Yeager avenue, Metzger drove the
victim to the Nesbitt Hospital for
treatment.
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ONE HUNDRED FIFTY
HONEYMOONERS VISIT
HARVEYS LAKE HOTEL
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Brokenshire’s Harveys Lake
Hotel is becoming one of the
most popular spots in. the
country for honeymooners.
During the current season
more than 150 honeymooning
couples have been registered
at the popular resort hotel.
This week three honeymooning
couples are among those reg-
istered. They are Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Snyder, Hollis,
N.Y; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pign-
aloso, Richmond Hills, N. Y.,
and Mr, and Mrs. Edward J.
Sharsky, Ozone Park, N. Y.
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Typical of the many fine entries
in the coming Back Mountain Ken-
nel Club’s A. K. C. “Sanctioned
Match is this Irish Setter, “Michael
Bronze Rascal” to be handled by
his young master, Eugene P. Hind-
rocks Jr., 13, of Elmecrest.
This is Eugene's first year for
handling but already he has gain-
ed experience in several matches
and shows. At the Berks County
show in Reading ‘Michael Bronze
Rascal” won a first prize ribbon
for American Bred Dogs and just
recently won Best in Show at the
Pet Show sponsored by the mer-
chants of Dallas.
The Back Mountain Kennel Club
sponsors its sanction matches with
EE
the express purpose of giving nov-
|icce exhibitors and handlers the
| opportunity to gain experience for
competing in the show ring.
All persons interested in exhibit-
ing or handling pure bred dogs
are urged to take advantage of the
Back Mountain Kennel Club Match
which will be held rain or shine
in the Irem Temple Country Club
pavilion this Sunday.
Entries will be accepted at any-
time. However, on Sunday, the
entries will be taken from 11:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
There will be puppy and adult
judging and a special exhibition of
obedience. Silver trophies and
ribbons will be awarded.
Rev. Lewis Button
Rev. Lewis Button will be guest
speaker at the Sweet Valley C. E.
Union Conference to be held in
Sweet Valley Christian Church
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
and in the evening at 7 p.m. and
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
To Open Gift Shop
Mrs. Elizabeth Cease, who has
been ill for the past eight months,
has now recuperated enough to
plan the opening of the Treasure
Gift Shop at her home on Franklin
street some time in the early part
of October.
Mrs. Mary E. Smith, Meadow
Lake Farm, Jackson Township,
celebrated her eighty-third birth-
day anniversary at a dinner given
by her grandson and granddaugh-
ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ziba Smith,
Sunday evening, September 3.
As usual, Evelyn, Ziba's wife,
made the huge birthday cake. The
children, always eager to do nice
things for great grandma Mary and
grandma Emma Smith, entertained
with a bicycle circus which includ-
ed colorful clown costumes, music
and fun-making performances.
Greatgrandma received lovely
gifts.
Great-grandma Mary Smith is
the widow of L. L. Smith who died
seventeen years ago. She and her
husband owned and worked to-
gether the farm bordering the Lake
where all the family now lives
close together and have such good
times. Greatgrandma has her own
apartment in Ziba’s house, but she
certainly doesn’t ‘stay put”—for
the door is always ‘‘open between”
and she makes apple butter for
the family, does a lot of the cook-
ing and canning for the household,
busies herself with the mending,
and spends every evening after
school chatting with Laura Rae
hobbies are making quilts for
the married and married-to-be
and sweaters and gloves for
the
school-age members of the
~
‘and
Smith Company
Meets Roberts
Second Fire Alarm
For Pulsifer Family
Harry C. Smith volunteers re-
sponded for the second time in a
week to a call from the William
Pulsifer place on the steep hill
between Beaumont and the Har-
veys Lake road, early Sunday
morning. Kunkle and Harveys
Lake Volunteers met five minutes
after the alarm had been given at
four A.M. With the chicken-house
fire which wiped out between five
six thousand chickens last
Monday, fresh in their minds, the
Pulsifers lost no time in calling
the fire departments when smoke
began curling through the house.
It proved to be a dry run for
both companies. A stick of wood,
inadvertently left on top of the
bucket-a-day, started to smoulder,
furnishing a smoke-screen for its
own harmlessness.
The chicken-house fire which
wiped out a large structure of con-
crete foundation and wooden su-
perstructure, was fortunately cover-
ed by insurance.
Shavertown PTA
First meeting of Shavertown
Grade School P.T.A. will be held
in the Grade School Monday eve-
about the day’s happenings. Her
ning, October 16.
Mrs. Mary E. Smith Celebrates
Her 83rd Birthday Anniversary
family.
Grandma Emma, just as active
and helpful, lives in a cabin across
the way. She frequently goes out
to help a neighbor with her work
and took an active part in the re-
cent Mt. Folk Festival directed by
Evelyn which cleared $112 for the
Jackson Church.
Birthdays, holidays, canning sea-
son and any other simple excuse,
brings the whole happy family to-
gether for a "jolly party.
Greatgrandma Smith and the
late L. L. Smith had one child, the
late Albert, well-known Back
Mountain sportsman, husband of
grandma Emma; Ziba and Mrs.
Walter Shouldice, both of Jackson,
are their children, grandchildren of
Mary Smith. There are seven
greatgrandchildren: Ziba Jr., and
Laura Rae at home, and Mrs, Frank
Skok of Newark, N. J., Mrs. James
Perkins of Hunlock Creek, Fred,
Janet and Walter at home, all
Shouldices; also three great great
grandchildren, Brenda Skok and
Colleen ‘and Reed Perkins.
Present at the birthday dinner
were: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Should-
ice, Janet and Fred Shouldice, Earl
Hartman, Suzanne Tveede, Billy
and Bobby Joseph, Laura Rae
Smith, Ziba Jr. Smith, Florence
Yockavitch, Grandma Emma Smith,
the guest of honor and the host
and hostess.
VANDALS VISIT DALLAS
DAMAGE NEW CONSTRUCTION
ENTER WOODLAWN CEMETERY
Two gallons of paint thinner
in the boiler, five pounds of
nails in the paint, an excava-
tion in the newly poured con-
crete basement floor, and a
broken ladder, are four of the
more notable goodwill gifts ac-
corded a prospective resident
of Dallas.
Vandals have twice entered
the house which Paul Eckert
is building for Walter Rowett,
accountant for Lehigh Valley
Coal ‘Company, now resident
in Luzerne. The first damage
was to the roof, early in Aug-
ust; the second entry was
made last Sunday, with a
broken door as a preliminary.
State and local police are
on the lookout for boys big
enough to wear a man-sized
shoe, as evidenced by foot-
prints.
Harold Titman, president of
Woodlawn Cemetery, reports
that mischief makers have en-
tered the cemetery at night,
damaging headstones with
sticks, scattering flowers, and
desecrating the grounds. The
perpetrators are known, and
will be prosecuted.
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Redskins Open
Against Dupont
Contest Tomorrow
On Memorial Field
Dallas Township is preparing to
start the 1950 football season to-
morrow afternoon under new grid
mentor, Bob Thomas. Dupont will
be the opponent for the first game
on Memorial Field.
Coach Thomas has installed
Plymouth’s quick-breaking “T” for-
mation and is pinning his hopes
on young, diminutive Bobby Harris
to handle quarterbacking = duties.
Bob Bellas and Al Creamer hold
down the wingback slots with Wil-
liams playing fullback. Both Bellas
and Creamer saw full-time duty
on last year's eleven.
The fifth new coach in six years,
Thomas faces a vast rebuilding job
due to holes cut in his squad by
graduation. Thomas is not overly
optimistic for a perfect season, but
ventures the opinion that barring
injuries, the Redskins will flash
some of the spirit, power, and skill
of previous years.
Tunior IOOF To Honor
Late James Franklin
Saturday afternoon and evening
October 21, Grand Lodge Officers
of Pennsylvania Independent Order
Odd Fellows will Institute the
James A. Franklin Junior Lodge
at The Hall of Oneida Lodge No.
371, Dallas.
Committees are working to make
this a big day in Odd Fellowship.
Members of the Junior Lodge
are boys from 12 years to 18 years
of age.
They will be the future Odd
Fellows to carry on the work of
the Subordinate Lodges of this
locality.
Joins Air Corps
Alan Wood of Rice street left
Monday for San Antonio, Texas,
where he will serve with the U.S.
Air Corps.
Alan is a graduate of Dallas
Borough High School and has been
employed by Fernbrook Mill
Village Mail
Delivery May
Come Shortly
Postal Inspector
Makes Survey Within
Mile Radius Of Dallas
Charles Reese, United States
Postal inspector has this week been
conducting a survey of streets
within a mile radius of Dallas
Postoffice with a view toward mak-
ing recommendations for carrier
delivery of mail.
House to house delivery has been
in the cards for sometime and re-
cently Dallas Borough Council
petitioned the Postal Department
to put it into- effect.
Two of the requirements are
that houses are numbered and
street signs erected. Sidewalks also
must be in good condition. Council
has complied with the request for
street signs and will have them
erected shortly. Citizens who wish
to cooperate and do not know the
numbers of their homes can ob-
tain them by calling Borough En-
gineer John Jeter any evening
after 6.
Areas which will come within
the mile radius of the Postoffice
are Goss Manor, Dallas Heights,
Center Hill road and Midland
Drive as well as other streets in
the Borough.
Dallas Township Supervisors
have been asked to erect street
signs and have homes numbered
in the areas lying in the township.
Village delivery will require the
services of two additional carriers
at the Postoffice. If approved by
the Postal Department, it is In-
spector Reese’s opinion that service
will start before Christmas. Much
credit is due Congressman Daniel
Flood for his effort to have the
survey made and to bring the
matter to the attention of the
Postoffice Department.
Parrishes Celebrate
Silver Anniversary
At a lovely turkey dinner served
in Donahue’s Restaurant last
evening, Mr. and Mrs. Albert H.
Parrish were guests of honor in
celebration of their twenty fifth
wedding anniversary and Mrs. Par-
rish’s birthday.
The Parrishes were married Sep-
tember 2, 1925 in the Wyoming
Methodist Church by the late
Rev. Joshua Brundle.
Mrs. Parrish is the former Emily
Gregory of Kingston, Mr. Parrish
is the son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Parrish. The couple
started housekeeping in Dallas
where young Albert assisted his
father on the farm that extended
over all of Parrish Heights. Later
he and his Dad broke the farm up
into lots and went into the real
estate business. ' The Parrishes re-
cently sold the homestead on Main
street to Back Mountain Library
and moved to a newly built home
on Parrish street.
The couple has two children:
Mrs. Raymond A. Titus of Dallas
and Arthur of Taylor; also a grand-
daughter, Sharon Titus, the delight
of both grandparents.
Present at the dinner were: Mr.
and Mrs. Reese Lewis of Kingston;
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis of
Ashley; Mr. and Mrs. William
Llewellyn, Mrs. Faye Parrish, Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Titus and Shar-
on, Miss Doris Titus, Dallas; Her-
bert Hill, Shavertown; Mrs. Rose
Gregory, Mrs. Lawrence J. Coil,
Wilkes-Barre; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Parrish and William Williams of
Taylor.
Tondora, Former Township Star,
Is Now Flashy Back For Kings
It did not take the King’s College
coaching staff long to spot Joe
Tondora! The former Dallas Town-
ship star halfback was she sur-
prise of the King’s football squad
in the first month of drills on the
Vaughn's Corners field in Kingston.
The 5 10” 170-pound Dallas
athlete reported to King’s football
coach Ray Chesney in top con-
dition on the first day of practice,
August 15. From the start Ton-
dora let it be known that he was
the outstanding candidate for the
right halfback slot on the Red and
Gold grid team.
What especially caught the eyes
of Coach Chesney and Assistant
Coach John Bonner was the hustle
Tondora displayed while running
through dummy scrimmages. Even
though there was contact, the Dal-
las halfback ran with the ball as
if the entire North Korean Army
was chaging him!
Tondora starts very fast—a help-
ful factor for a “T” formation half-
back—on slashes through the line.
After hitting any type of hole in
the scrimmage line, the Dallas
speedster breaks into the open with
a vengeance.
In almost all intra-squad scrim-
mages held by Coach Chesney Ton-
dora has turned in long touchdown
runs. His hard running has been
one of the highlights of the first
month of drills for the Kingsmen,
It did not take long for Tondora
to fit into King’s first-string of-
fense. Teamed with veteran left
halfback Jay Zaleskas, the Dallas
back gives the Monarchs a sensa-
tional pair of breakaway halfbacks.
With a big threat like Tondora
faking off on various plays from
the “T”, the very shifty Zaleskas
is sure to be shaken loose for
many long runs during the season.
Tondora is a cinch to be in the
starting offensive lineup for the
King’s eleven.
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