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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Editorially Speaking:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1952
8 Cents
per Copy— Ten Pages
Back Mountain Highway Deaths and
DALLAS
DALLAS
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
BOX SCORE
Serious Accidents Since V-J Day
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TOWNSHIP
FIRE, FIRE!
You wake up with a jolt in the middle of the night.
Is that smoke? Has a neighbor’s trash-pile flared up again
in the night breeze, with its smoke coming through the
ruffled curtains? Or is that thin and menacing haze issu-
ing from the crack under the bedroom door?
An instant’s indecision,
and the smoké¢ is stronger.
Throwing off the blankets, wide awake, you are out of
bed, and wrenching open the door. :
The hall is filled with smoke. You grope your way
downstairs, and into the living room. The living room
fireplace, supposedly secure
for the night, has cast a
spark. It has been eating its way slowly into the rug and
a chintz slip-covered chair is in its path.
The fire isn’t much. You draw a bucket of water in
the kitchen, and come back to douse the smoulder.
As you reach the door there is an ominous crackle
and a roar. The slip-cover is in flames as you dash the
water on the chair, and the net curtains have caught. In
an instant the fire has mushroomed and is beyond your
help.
You race for the telephone and alert the fire depart-
ment. In four minutes there is the fire engine, but by
this time the room is in flames and fire is licking the
spindles of the open stairway.
The firemen do their best. Roused from their beds,
these willing volunteers battle the blaze. Is there a fire-
plug handy? No? Boss, where’ll we get water?
The
tank’s almost dry. Next door? Right. But we'll have to
go easy, or we'll run completely dry.
The fire flares up in another spot. Other fire engines
appear, but now any amount of water will not suffice.
You watch while your cherished belongings are. carried
to the lawn, you watch while flames burst from your bed-
room windows. The children are shivering in the night
There wasn’t time to snatch up their clothing, but
air.
wrapped in blankets they are safe.
Then you begin thinking about your recent donation
to the new fire truck. Was one dollar enough to help buy
community protection? Two dollors? Five?
j A new and larger fire-truck, better equipped, is the
best protection you can have, a truck that will carry
enough water to hold the conflagration until more help
can come if the fire is large,
enough to extinguish it in a
matter of seconds if it is of minor importance.
Not more than half enough has been pledged or paid.
Dallas needs a new fire truck. The drive has been going
on for weeks.
There have been too many very small
donations, too few larger ones.
If each householder who gave a dollar would revise
the budget and give five; if each man who gave five would
think it over and decide to give ten, the fund would be
nearly adequate.
"fou can never replace treasures lost in a fire. Maybe
you will never have a fire. But if you do, you want to be
assured that the best modern equipment will answer your
desperate plea for help.
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PILLAR TO POST
By MRS. T. M. B. HICKS
A summer used to be as long as five years now. The summer vaca-
tion was years and years in length, with the first day of school a mirage
at the end of it,glimpsed occasionally, but having no reality of brick and
stone until the day before the opening.
School didn’t start in Baltimore
in 1900 until after September 12,
the date whigh commemorated the
exploit of the two young lads, Wells
and McComas, who were responsible
for the turning of the tide when the
British army was marching upon the
after buming Washington.
There is a shaft of granite in mem-
ory of those boys, deep in the heart
of East Baltimore, within sight of
the Washington monument far to
the west and Johns Hopkins Hos-
‘pital to the east, a section which
is now a second Harlem;
The annual parade, address, and
laying of the commemorative wreath
* at the shrine of the two teen-age
boys was always the signal for school
to start. The following day the
streets were full of little boys in
caps and straight knee length trou-
sers, little girls in starched gingham,
their pigtails bound with rubber
bands and tied securely together at
the ends, -
But in June, as compensation, the
schools went on and on, with tea-
chers and pupils melting into a sod-
den mass of perspiring humanity,
flies droning in the classrooms, two
weeks more to go and no relief in
sight. Never was there release until
the very last week of June, with
Fourth of July ammunition already
startling the horses, and dynamite
caps placed on the trolley tracks.
The first day of school was an
occasion. There were the children
from the Primary School to be m-
itiated into the mysteries of the
Grammar School. * The ex-third
graders, assembled at their own
school some blocks away, were con-
voyed in a long line to higher edu-
cation in the Grammar (School. Ex-
fourth-graders, promoted now to
seats in the fifth grade, watched
from their heights while the little
primary children, filed in and seated
themselves at the vacant desks.
The eighth-graders had myster-
iously disappeared late in June,
siphoned off to enter the portals of
the very heights of learning, the
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High School. Grammar School child-
ren in the lower grades couldn't
think that far ahead. When high
school time came, the bigger girls
put up their hair, and skirts,
lengthened a bit at twelve, now
reached a point midway between
ankle and knee. But that was for a
period far, far ahead, when a child
would be really OLD, all of fourteen.
It had no relation to little girls in
the fifth grade, securely wrapped
in the cocoon of childhood. There
might be things of interest in that
adult state, but the matter need
not be considered now.
Here were the little: primary
children, who needed to be shown
where to hang their hats (little
girls wore hats to school, gven in
hot weather), where to get 4 drink,
and where other facilities were lo-
cated. Kind little monitors, feeling
their age and importance, showed
the newcomers what entrance was
used by little girls, Never again
would the primary children come
boldly in the front door, but obed-
iently through the gate into the
brick-paved schoolyard with its
high board fence, and up the creak-
ing stairs at the back.
Nobody ever saw the little boys.
They had a separate school yard, and
they were housed upstairs, where
they could be heard trampling over-
head when it was time for recess
or dismissal. Brothers and sisters
met with a vague feeling of guilt
on the pavement outside the school
for the walk home together.
Later, they told me with bated
breath when I was a big girl in High
School, old Number 11 instituted
something new and different. Five
boys were cautiously introduced
into the eighth grade room with the
girls, and five girls, ostracized
thenceforth by their companions,
took their places upstairs with the
boys, the sheep for the first time
consorting with the goats.
Number 11, I reflected, was go-
ing to the dogs.
VOL. 62, No. 34
Jackson Team, winner of both
halves of the current season Little
League baseball games, poses for
its picture,
Kneeling, left to right, are Victor
Salanski, Ronald Davis, Samuel
Wagner, Richard Malak, Richard
Cummings, Thomas Williams, Larry
Stash, and Charles (Cigarski.
Second row, Robert Radonovitch,
7.
Jackson Team Little League Champs For Second Year
' Paul Malak, Ronald Stark, Bertram
Balliet, and Allen Lamoreaux.
Back row, Manager [Steve Radano-
vitch, and coaches Frank Thompson
and Thomas Williams.
Jackson Team
Wins 19 Games
Will Lose Four
Players In 1952
For the second successive years,
Jackson Township Little League
Team walked off with the honors,
this year with a straight score of
winning both halves, and a phenom-
ena] record of nineteen games won
out of twenty games played.
Last year they won the first half,
bowed to Fernbrook for the second,
but won the play-off. This year no
play-off was: necessary, The team
had. a banguet at season's end at
Huntsville = Methodist Church in
1951.
Next year Jackson will be hard
hit in the loss of four key players,
Robert Radonovitch, Bertram Bal-
liet, Paul Malak, and Thomas Wil-
liams, Balliet would have been dis-
qualified this season if his thirteenth
birthday had been August 1 instead
of August 2, All four of these boys
will be thirteen before the deadline
for 1953, with the Jackson team
cut down to size of the contenders.
Jackson Hitting for 1952
ab h Pct.
Balliet 67 134 507
P. Malak 69 30 435
Williams 59. 20.339
Salanski 36 12 .333
Pitching
W L
Paul Malak 9 0
Radonovitch 9:3
Richard Malak 1 0
Second Half Standings
Team | LL.‘ Pech.
Jackson 10 0 1.000
Fernbrook 5. 51.500
Trucksville 4 6 .400
Shavertown 4 6 .400
Dallas 4 6 400
Carverton 2 8. ..200
Lady Of The
Lake To Be
Selected
Harveys Lake
Lions Sponsoring
~ Bnnual Contest
Forty girls have entered the Har-
veys Lake Lions’ Beauty Contest
scheduled for Labor Day, and at
least 20 more entries are expected,
announced Sheldon Cave, president
of the (Club and co-chairman of the
contest. Even more girls and more
patrons are wanted.
A first prize of a $200 purchasing
certificate at the Boston Store wiil
be awarded; second prize will be a
$100 certificate, and third, a $50
one. An additional prize of a week-
end trip to Bedford Springs, the
“Poconos of Pittsburg”, for the win-
ner and any companion of her
choice will be given by All-American
Airlines.
The preliminary judging of the
“Lady of the Lake” will be held
on August 31 at Sunset, and the
finals will be held on Labor Day.
Gerald Frantz is chairman of the
contest and is being assisted by
Jack Nortoff, publicity chairman,
George Taylor, seating chairman,
Carl Swanson, entertainment, and
the entire Lions’ Club.
Lost Child Still
Critically Ill
At Nesbitt
Bullet Not Yet
Recovered From
Wound In Neck
Lee Brown, five year old son of
Lt. and Mrs. Robert Brown, Moore-
town, is still in eritical condition at
Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, but he
no longer lies under an oxygen tent.
There is hope now that Lee will re-
cover from being accidentally shot
in the neck, but it was touch and go
for several days.
Mrs. Brown says the three child-
ren, Robert, 11, Gail, 9, and Lee,
weren't running away from home as
erroneously reported. They were
starting on an expedition to Patter-
son Grove Thursday afternoon,
taking Fremch leave while their
mother was in Dallas picking up her
groceries. When the accident oc-
curred, they thought that if they
could deliver their little brother in
better condition than he was after
being shot, their parents would feel
more receptive to their story.
So they bedded the injured child
down on leaves, covered him with
their sweaters, and waited for him
to recover sufficiently so that he
could walk home. They waited until
it grew dark, and then they became
frightened,
State police going past their
hide-out at midnight flashed a light,
but the beam did not touch the
breathless children, and the patrol
car went slowly on, continuing its
search.
It was not until 4 AM Friday that
their father located them. By this
time Lee was in shock and the
older children were in despair, real-
izing that the situation was beyond
them, but not daring to leave their
brother or to separate and try to get
help during the moonless night and
on that lonesome road through the
game preserve.
They had separated before, and
tragedy had overtaken them. Lee
had become tired, his short legs
exhausted from the rocky road. He
said he was hungry, sat down on
the ground and refused to go any
farther. Leaving the little boy in
charge of his sister Gail, Robert
went on to [Patterson (Grove to buy
cookies, instead of turning back to
get food at his own home, not more
than a mile away. It was almost
two hours before he returned.
Having driven the distance in a car
the week before, he was familiar
with the routd but thought it was
much shorter. There were curves
that he didn’t remember seeing,
and the way was steep and stony.
The children, preparing for their
expedition, had spotted the gun on
the front porch, where it had been
laid when brought down from the
attic in process of family packing
for the move to foreign service in
Germany. They discussed the gun,
and decided it would add a certain
air to their project.
Now pioneers in their own minds,
the children had set forth, looking
for bears and hostile Indians.
‘When left in charge of Lee, Gail
picked up the gun, aimed it at an
imaginary bear, and pulled the trig-
ger. [She didn’t know it was loaded.
The bullet, at close range, entered
the seventh cervical vertebra, and
Mary Weir Is
Made Chairman
Heads Hemelright
Award Committee
Mary Wier, well known for her
religious, civic and social leadership,
has been named General ‘Chairman
of the Frank L. Hemelright Annual
Memorial Award Committee for
1952.
Selection of Miss Weir is sincere
tribute to. her work in many com-
munity projects which have brought
lasting benefit to the Back Mountain
area.
The Frank Ii Hemelright Mem-
orial ‘Award ‘established in grateful
memory of the late Frank L. Hemel-
right, Monroe Township's foremost
citizen and philanthropist, was cre-
ated in 1947 by a Back Mountain
citizen who prefers to remain anon-
ymous.
Conditions of the Award are
simple and forthright. Ang man or
woman, who has performed con-
spicuuos community service, is eli-
gible to receive Award by nomina-
tion. The person nominated by re-
presentatives from all religious, fra-
ternal, military, civic and service or-
ganizations receives an engraved
certificate, a plaque and a govern-
ment bond.
Rev. John J. O'Leary, .pastor of
St. Therese’s R. (C. Church, [Shaver-
town, received the Award last year.
Other winners have been .Howard
Hendricks, former supervising prin-
cipal of Lehman Schools; Howard
W. Risley, editor and publisher of
the Dallas Post, and Harry L. Ohl-
man, present Potentate of Trem
Temple, and an insurance broker.
As is customary the Memorial
Award will be formally presented
at a combined dinner meeting of
Dallas Kiwanis and Rotary (Clubs at
Irem Temple Country (Club in late
September or early October.
Miss Weir, as general chairman,
will appoint committee chairmen
to- assist her in notifying delegates
from each of the numerous organi-
zations to be represented, in addi-
tion to helping with the many de-
tails connected with the Memorial
Award.
Annual Flower Show
At Trucksville Sep. 4
Trucksville Flower Show is sched-
uled for iSeptember 4 in Trucksville
Fire Hall. An activity sponsored by
women of The White Church on the
Hill, the show annually draws en-
tries from members of the West
Side and Wyoming Valley Flower
Clubs as well as local arrangements.
Mrs. S. D. Finney is chairman.
Lee collapsed,
Mrs. Roberts has been in con-
stant attendance at the hospital
since the child was first admitted.
The bullet, located dangerously near
the spinal cond, has mot yet been
recovered.
Lt. Roberts is here on a forty-
five day leave, due at Camp Kilmer
September 12, prior to overseas duty
in Germany, where the family will
join him within three to six months,
depending on transport accommoda-
tions.
The family home, purchased three
years ago, is the old Sam Bartleson
place, half a mile from Route 115,
with entrance by dirt road a few
rods from Fred Kittle's general
store, SEE
Fire Truck Fund
Needs Donations
‘To Reach Quota
Paid Pledges Total
Not Half Of Money
Needed For Purchase
Paid-up pledges for Dr. Henry M.
Laing fire truck now total $5,730
according to a statement by Harold
L. Smith, chairman of the drive.
Further pledges, when paid, amount
to $1,995.
Amount needed is approximately
$15,000.
Mr. Smith points out the discrep-
ancy. He says that though there have
been many donations of $25 and
over, there have not been enough
to counterbalance gifts of one and
two dollars,
Twice as much as has been al-
ready received must be given. Mr.
Smith suggests that those house-
holders who have made small do-
nations, get in touch with the
solicitor who visited them and
double the amounts. A call direct
to the chairman or to 'W. B. Jeter,
First National Bank of Dallas, will
accomplish the same result if more
convenient.
A list of the larger domations is
headed by A. J. Sordoni and Colonel
Dorrance Reynolds, both of whom
gave $500. First National Bank do-
nated $200, Stanley B. Davies $150.
Gifts of $100 have been made by
Dallas Hardware; A. C. Devens,
Ralph Flannigan, Raymon Hedden,
Isabel C. McClintock, Olivers Gar-
age, Mrs, William Powell, Kenneth
Rice, L. L. Richardson, Howard
Risley, A. |G. Rutherford, Harold
Titman, and W. M. Williams.
[Contributing $50 are Clyde (Coop-
er, Robert Evans, Edward Eyerman,
Sr., Dwight Fisher, Harold E. Flack,
Joseph Hand, Harris Haycox, Dr.
W. H. Imhoff, Severen Newberry,
Harry Ohlman, Philip Ritter, Dan
Robinhold, Arthur H. Ross, Harold
L. Smith, Sterling Williams.
One gift of $35, Clark Hildebrant,
$30 from H. W. Smith.
In the $25 contributor list a
Joseph '‘Adametz, [American Legion
Home, Ralph Balut, Ben Banks,
Jack Barnes, Gus Bitsaker, Alfred
Boyson, Richard Brace, H. L. Carey,
Ira Barle, Dr. Carlton Davies, E. W.
Deeter, Walter DeWees, J. P. De-
Witt, (Paul ‘Goddard.
Estella Goldsmith, Ralvh Garra-
han, Mrs. C. Roscoe Lee, Jay Llewel-
lyn, Dr. A. ‘A. Mascali, Peter Maso-
‘nis, K. W. Matchett, W, E. Myers,
John C. Phillips, Daniel Richards,
H. D. Swepston, James IC. Thomas,
Giles Wilson, and Mrs, H. H. Zeiser.
Pledges amounting to $1000 were
paid in. amounts ranging from $1 to
$20.
Names of substantial contributors
will be published as received.
Dallas-Franklin
Redecorates
Replaces Dark Decor
With Lighter Tints
Dallas-Franklin Township school
has been extensively redecorated in
preparation for school opening Sep-
tember 3. In addition to usual main-
tenance, ten classrooms and the
gymnasium . have been repainted,
dark woodwork giving place to light
colors.
New furniture has been purchased
for four classrooms occupied by fifth
and sixth grades. The school-rooms
on the first floor have new fluores-
cent lighting with exception of one
room, and eight classrooms have
been equipped with new modern
type furniture.
‘During the past two years, fifteen
classrooms have been redecorated.
Drivewdys, parking lots, and play-
ground areas have been resurfaced
with macadam, 'A septic tank drain-
age area to accommodate increased
demand has been. tiled.
The athletic field, levelled and
graded, will be sowed to a seed mix-
ture recommended for it by James
Hutchison, Luzerne County [Farm
Agent." Prepared in advance, the
four-acre plot has been treated with
twelve tons of ground limestone,
and 1600 pounds each of 0-20-20
and 5-10-5 fertilizer.
Planting, done with a cyclone
planter, lengthwise and crosswise of
the field, will consist of 50% Ken-
tucky Blue; 30% [Chewing Fescue;
10% Red-Top; and 10% perennial
rye, with some domestic rye added
for quick rooted sod.
Bob Laux, Midland Drive, Dallas,
has two six-weeks old kittens, cute
as a button, that he wants to place
in good homes. The mother cat is
a good mouser. If you need a nice
pet for the children, here it is,
‘| College Misericordia as
Area Schools
Set Opening
For Sep. 3 or 4
Westmoreland, Lake,
Lehman, On Thursday,
Township Wednesday
Dallas Borough-Kingston Town-
ship joint schools will open iSep-
tember 4 at the usual time, with
regular schedule of bus service.
Kindergarten children will be re-
gistered on the opening day, with
parents signing up for special bus
service, which in the case of pre-
school children is charged to the
parents,
Dallas-Franklin Township schools
will open Wednesday, September 3,
the usual time, 8:50 AM.
Raymond Kuhnert, Supervising
Principal, requests that any stu-
dents transferring from another
school advise him by telephone,
note, or personal interview what
grade the student expects to enter,
his age, and his present address.
All new students must have vac-
cination and birth certificates, or
mer school.
Lehman-Jackson schools will open,
Thursday, September 4, at 8:30.
The cafeteria will serve lunch, and
busses will operate on regular
schedule. All of the new building
project is complete and in operation,
and routine maintenance of floors
and repainting has been carried out
in advance of opening.
Lake-Noxen Township schools
open Thursday, September 4, 8:45,
with regular bus service provided.
Registration for first grade pupils
took place at Lake school on Wed-
nesday, at Noxen yesterday 1-3 and
7-9 PM. The first grade room at
Noxen has been redecorated in peach
and sight-saving green, with new
furniture of the individual chair
and table type. Mrs. Eva Rundell
is first grade teacher.
schools. may register Sentembw 3
or 4. The school office i- oun
daily for inquiries or informatica.
New Teachers
At Lehman
Mrs. Stolarick
Resigns Position
Two new teachers have been
elected by Lehman-Jackson Town-
ship School Board to succeed two
who have resigned.
Mrs, Edwin [Stolarick, the former
Ruth Shelhammer is being replaced
by Marilyn Sickler, resident of West
Wyoming and recent graduate from
head of
Home Economics,
Mary Lamoreux, a graduate of
recently of Wilkes, replaces Mrs.
Ida Howell in the fifth grade. Mrs.
Howell will teach in West Wyoming,
more conveniently located near her
residence,
By popular request, and with the
sanction and encouragement of the
State Board of Education, Vocational
Agriculture courses will be open to
ninth grade students. With the new
work shop in operation, these stu-
dents can now be accommodated.
Joe Ellsworth is building clothes
closets for the Home Economics
Room, special installations not called
for in the original “specifications.
Lester Squier, [Supervising Principal,
says it is a fine job, equal to the
professional work done in the room.
The cafeteria has been completely
redecorated.
Albert Creamer
Wins Plymouth
Tremendous Crowd
Stays For Drawing
Albert Creamer, Goss ‘Manor, won
the 1952 Plymouth on the last night
of the three-night Lake Festival
held August 12, 13 and 14 at Twin
Lakes,
‘A huge crowed was present on the
final night, with perfect weather
prevailing, Fire-works were well re-
ceived, and the high-wire act was
breath-taking.
People were in a buying mood,
with all concessions and booths well
patronized. Guests were still play-
ing Bingo at 1 AM, but the crowd
thinned rapidly after’ the winning
number was announced and the new
car awarded at well past midnight.
Receipts go to support of Gate of
Heaven and Our Lady of Victory
parishes.
complete record of health from for-
Students transferring from other,
Lehman-Jackson in 1948, and more
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