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writes Mr. Ball, “the White
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“working draft.”
in that
wake up soon . .
“Unless people
along with this new effort.”
tory that fall.”
think the GOP must ‘buy’
the union leaders, and have
old Wagner Act.”
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FROM
The first frost was once the sig-
nal for Mother to rummage in the
moth chest for the long underwear
and pin it to the line to air. Chil-
dren postponed putting it on as
ed wearing it, custom demanded
that you went right on wearing it
until the following May.
It was not so hard to adjust that
first morning, for the legs were
snug and clung to the curves like
an extra skin. The second morning
the black ribbed stockings scuffed
up the ankle sections, giving a dis-
mal lumpy look to the finished en-
semble. By the third morning the
ankles had stretched to the point
where no amount of overlapping
could remedy the situation. Some
mothers got around this by graft-
ing a stirrup of elastic to the bot-
tom, where it nested itself under
the instep and rubbed a blister.
All children wore black ribbed
stockings, all children betrayed
bulges and wrinkles beneath, and
all stockings drooped dispiritedly
from the supporting elastic side-
‘garters, which in turn dragged
down the Ferris Waist.
There were always two pairs of
pants, and two petticoats. No little
girl was completely clothed with-
out wrestling with at least twelve
buttons on her undergarments, a
row up the back of her dress, and
twelve on each shoe.
These shoe buttons had to be
cajoled into place by /means of a
buttonhook, an item which disap-
peared from the counters of the
five and dime stores several decades
ago. Black buttoned shoes, high
ankled and with spring heels, com-
pleted the misery of the school
child. Step outside without rubbers,
and you got hauled back with a
hard look.
The winter coat was buttoned in
place, the felt hat perched on top
of the braids with an elastic under
the chin to hold it in place. Blondes
were in luck. Mothers of blondes
need not weigh the merits of black
elastic to match the hair, or white
elastic to match the skin. Mothers
of brunettes tossed a coin, heads
match the hair, tails match the
neck.
There was a terrific gap between
the top of the coat collar and the
bottom of the hat, a wind funnel
which the long braids did little to
plug. Winter, to the average school
child, was a season when he either
pricked with heat or shivered with
cold.
“Now don’t go in the drifts”, was
the standard warning when a child
skyrocketed out of the front door
on his way to school. Drifts meant
wet stockings and underwear, soppy
shoes when the snow melted in
the warmth of the classroom, with
an aftermath of pneumonia.
Present-day grandmothers reflect
that they were born thirty years too
soon when they see children gam-
bolling in the snow, burrowing in
and out of drifts, having themselves
a marvelius time, and all without
a thought of getting wet. The snow-
suits can take it. Whoever invented
them deserves a monument.
Mrs. Karl Kuehn Is
Hostess At Shower
Mrs. Karl Kuehn, Church Street,
entertained at a linen shower Wed-
nesday night honoring Mrs. Helen
Hart who will move to Rochester,
N. Y,, next week. Present were Mrs.
Gertrude Ford, Mrs. Frank Ferry,
Mrs. Joseph Lavelle, Mrs. Stella
Cummings, Mrs. Leslie Warhola,
Mrs. Bernie Williamson, Mrs. Alice
Stencil, Mrs. Earl Monk, Mrs.
Charles Mayer, Mrs. Mary Haley,
Mrs. F. Bud Schooley, Mrs. Minnie
Brown, the guest of honor and the
hostess.
VOL. 63, No. 38
War Prisoner
Returns From
Korea Thursday
Crowds Wait Hours
To Shake Hands
With Sgt. Vavrek
SGT. JOHN F. VAVREK
Sgt. John Vavrek, returning Ko-
rean War prisoner, landed at Avoca
Airport Thursday afternoon at 4.
His mother, Mrs. Anna Vavrek,
members of the immediate family,
and a delegation from Daddow
Isaacs Post American Legion, were
at Avoca early in the morning,
meeting plane after plane.
Shivering crowds gathered at
East Dallas Church for John’s for-
mal welcome. Holding small flags,
neighbors and friends waited out
the hours, alert for the warning
siren. At noon, acknowledging that
he had missed his connections, the
crowd dispersed.
At 3:30 word was passed that an
American Airliner was due from
the west at 4 p.m. and the crowd
reassembled.
Dallas - Franklin Township Band
was transported to the church. Stu-
dents, planning to go en masse by
bus, were dismissed at the usual
time. Many made their own way
to the meeting place, or accom-
panied their parents.
The white streamer bearing the
lettering, Welcome Home Jack, was
once more strung up across De-
munds Road.
The motorcade, now supplement-
ed by cars picked up along the way
and the Dallas Fire Company
pumper, stopped at the church for
welcoming ceremonies.
Rev. Thomas Davis gave the in-
vocation.
Herman Kern led singing accom-
panied by the band.
Paul Shaver presented a life
membership from the Daddow
(Continued on Page Seven)
More than 3,600 students are en-
rolled in Back Mountain schools
this fall. Largest enrollment is Dal-
las Borough - Kingston Township
jointure, with 1080. The school
showing the largest gain is Gate of
Heaven, which has this year added
an eighth grade, and has a record
first grade of sixty-five, largest in
its history. ;
Lehman-Jackson-Ross ....
Lehman - Jackson - Ross has 901
students, 735 in the main building
at Lehman. One hundred and sixty-
six still scattered in one-room
schoolhouses in Ross Township will
go to the new elementary school in
Sweet Valley in October.
Cafeteria luncheons average 650
daily, as compared with 500 last
year. Seventy-five more students
are enrolled in the main building,
with the two new grade rooms tak-
ing the excess from the high school
building. Two sections of all grades
except third and fourth are in op-
eration in the elementary section.
Third and fourth have one room
each, and one combined room.
Ross Township teachers will
when the new building is completed.
Mrs. Anthony Curtis, Frisbie School,
will teach first grade; Mrs. Dorothy
LaBar, Hook School, the second;
Mrs. Beatrice Cragle, Center, third;
Myron Moss, Mooretown, fourth;
Delbert Hines, Broadway, fifth, and
Arthur Curtis, Mott, sixth.
Lake-Noxen
At Lake-Noxen, George Taylor,
supervising principal, reports enroll-
ment of 645, with 185 in the ele-
mentary school at Noxen. Band
practice started Thursday. There is
no cafeteria at Lake-Noxen.
Beaumont
Monroe Township has a slight
Ten Pages
Committee members for the chest
X-ray project of Wyoming Valley
Tuberculosis Society to be con-
ducted in the Back Mountain area
next week and during early Octo-
ber are here shown with the mo-
bile equipment at Dallas Borough
Schoo! where they gathered this
week to make final preparations.
In the door of the truck is Flor-
ence Frantz, X-ray technician.
First row, left to right: Mrs.
Harry Ohlman, chairman, Mrs. Or-
nan Lamb, co-chairman, Mrs. Ben
Edwards, Mrs. James Spencer, Mrs.
George Taylor, Mrs. George Kanarr,
Mrs. Robert Milne, Mrs. Robert
Bodycomb, Mrs. Thomas E. Cease,
Mrs. L. L. Richardson, Mrs. David
Pugh, Mrs. Edward Davis, Mrs.
Thomas Brown, Mrs. Robert Ma-
turi, Mrs. William Purcell.
Second row, left to right: Miss
Marion Elenchik, Mrs. J. G. Maza,
Miss Carol Bostwick, Miss Norma
Shaver, Mrs. Norti Berti, Mrs. Rob-
ert Hale, Mrs. Donald D. Smith,
Mrs. David Jenkins, Mrs. Carl
Schreiner, Mrs. William Lee, Mrs.
Charles Mahler.
The mobile unit will be in the
Back Mountain Area on the follow-
ing dates:
Trucksville Fire House, Septem-
ber 21-22; Shavertown Fire House,
September 23; Dallas Borough
School, September 24-25; Dallas
Township School, September 28-29;
East Dallas Methodist Church, Sep-
tember 30; Huntsville Christian
Church, October 2; Lake-Noxen
School, Laketon, October 5.
Hours when X-rays will be taken
are from 4 to 8 p.m.
Those having the X-rays do not
have to undress. There is a charge
of fifty cents. Part of the cost of
the project is derived from the
sale of Christmas seals.
Wennlund Establishes
Dallas Roofing Company
Leonard Wennlund has purchased
the former Angele Guenta property
on Memorial Highway and has es-
tablished a new roofing firm under
the name of Dallas Roofers.
Formerly . of Edwardsville, Mr.
Wennlund has had years of exper-
ience in the roofing business on
Long Island.
He and Mrs. Wennlund have
three boys: Donald, a paratrooper,
and Ray and Tommy, students at
Westmoreland High School.
He will specialize in all types of
new roofs and repairs, including
caulking and repair of old chimneys.
Twenty-Fifth Wedding
Bnniversary Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Evans will
celebrate their twenty - fifth wed-
ding anniversary on Saturday.
They were married by Rev. W.
L. Todd of the Presbyterian Church
of Sunbury on September 19, 1928.
Mrs. Evans is the former Arline
Shannon of Lee Park. They have
two children, Donald Jr., student
at the University of Pennsylvania
where his father also graduated,
and Terry, student at Dallas Town-
ship schools.
drop in enrollment in the high--
school, a larger than usual first
grade. Total student body is 233,
eighty-six in grades 7-12, 46 in the
high school proper. Cafeteria service
under a staff of two, started on
Monday. Charges are $1.00 per five-
lunch week. Rates were upped last
year because of the rising cost of
meat.
High school students are still
accommodated at Beaumont build-
ing, arrangements not having been
fully completed to enter them at
Tunkhannock, though jointure with
that district is in the making, ac-
cording to statement by William A.
Austin, supervising principal.
Dallas-Franklin Township
Dallas - Franklin reports enroll-
ment of 745, a gain of fifteen over
last year’s figures. The total fluc-
tuates from day to day as families
return from vacation trips. Approx-
imately eighty children are enrolled
in the two first grades. Through the
entire elementary school and most
of the high school,two sections are
necessary for each grade. Most of
the children patronize the cafeteria,
very few bringing their own lunches
or going home at noon. Six mem-
bers are on the cafeteria staff.
Cafeteria charge per student is 90
cents per week for the first six
grades, $1.00 for older students,
more proportionately if a week's
meals are not contracted for at the
beginning of the week.
Dallas Borough-Kingston Township
Dallas Borough - Kingston Town-
ship has an enrollment of 1080,
compared with last year’s 1072. Ele-
mentary schools, including kinder-
garten, have 656, Westmoreland
high school 424. Kindergarten en-
rollment is 90, Dallas Borough 164,
Shavertown 227, Trucksville 175.
Cafeteria opened last Thursday.
Farley Will Be
PTA Speaker
Dallas-Franklin To
Welcome Sgt. Vavrek
Dr. Eugene Farley, president of
Wilkes College, will be the speaker
at the first fall meeting of Dallas-
Franklin Township Parent Teacher
Association on Monday night, Sep-
tember 28.
Highlights of the program accord-
ing to Charles Rinehimer, presi-
dent, will include a presentation to
Sgt. John Vavrek, recently returned
Korean war prisoner, a former Dal-
las Township student.
Rev. William McLellan, pastor of
Prince of Peace Church, will have
charge of devotions.
There will also be reports on the
Scholarship Fund and the Dental
Clinic. Teachers will be introduced
to parents and the committee will
be appointed for the annual Hal-
lowe’en Dance.
YWCA Drive Leaders
Named By Chairman
Mrs. A. D. Hutchison, Back Moun-
tain chairman for the Y.W.C.A.
drive being conducted this week
and next, has announced these ma-
jors: Mrs. Heary Peterson, Mrs.
James Huston, Mrs. Leroy Brown,
Mrs. Thomas Graham and Mrs. Wil-
liam Lee.
The drive which got off to a good
start with a kick off dinner at the
Y Tuesday night, has as its goal
five hundred new members. Mrs.
Fred Church, membership chairman
for the valley, led the dinner meet-
ing. Entertainment was furnished
by a skit, showing how to get new
members presented by Mrs. Hobart
Jeter of Pioneer Avenue.
Brace Made Registrar
Isaac L. Brace has received a
State appointment as Registrar of
Vital Statistics for the seven muni-
cipalities of the Back Mountain
area.
Margaret Belles, sister of Lake-
Noxen’s high school principal, Rob-
ert Belles, took third place in the
Lions Club Lady of the Lake con-
test Sunday afternoon. Donna
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Smith, was selected by the
committee as Little Lady of the
Lake, an honor accorded last year
to Sue Dodd, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Dodd. Don Wilkinson
won the Packard Clipper.
Low temperatures prevailed, hold-
down the crowd to less than 4,000,
a contrast to Labor Day’s record
turnout. Finals were run off in
short order, with twenty-one girls
finalists from the forty-six original-
iy parading on Labor Day, trying to
forget how cold they were in their
scant bathing suits.
Miss Belles is a junior in the high
school, residing in Noxen. First
place went to a professional model,
Jean Lynn. Wilkes-Barre, second to
Bernadine Melovitz, Larksville, a
last year’s contestant.
Harveys Lake Lions will realize
approximately $3,500 from the an-
nual event, a sum destined for its
sight-saving and allied projects. One
thousand tickets were sold, rental
from chairs added materially to the
fund, sponsors of contestants paid
$10 apiece for the privilege, and
programs brought additional a-
mounts.
Grace B. Daniels, Con O’Donnell,
and Donald Wilkinson were judges
for both semi-finals and finals.
All entrants will be feted at the
annual dinner dance, scheduled for
September 30 at Irem Temple Coun-
try Club.
While walking with his wife
Tuesday just at dusk along Cliffside
Avenue in Trucksville, Henry Blank
observed a small snake crossing the
highway some distance ahead of
them. He captured it alive with a
stick and found that it was a cop-
perhead. His wife hurriedly brought
him a fruit jar from the house and
there he imprisoned the reptile.
Anyone desiring a live copper-
head for observation or biological
purposes may obtain it from Mr.
Blank who will dispatch it in a day
or two unless some one wants it.
The copperhead is the fifth killed
or captured in that region this sea-
son. William White, a neighbor of
Mr. Blank, has killed four in that
area this summer. One was three
feet long and three were four feet
long. The most recent one was
killed two weeks ago.
Driving through a stop sign on
Center Hill Road, a Dallas Township
youth last week attempted to out-
smart State Police who witnessed
the violation.
The youth turned right off upper
Church Street onto Center Hill Road.
as soon as he saw the police car.
At Center Hill Road and Lake street
he committed another effense run-
his hurry to escape from the police.
When he reached the vicinity of
the Commonwealth Telephone Com-
pany Building he drew his car to the
curb, where several other cars were
parkcd, turned off his lights and lay
down on the floor of his machine.
cowed. Given a hearing before Jus-
tice-of-the-Peace James Besecker,
he was fined $20.
>
The Dallas Post
Telephone Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
Borough Gets
$21,000 At Low
Interest Rate
Dallas Branch Lends
Money To Buy Borough
Building At 3 Percent
Dallas Borough Council at a spec-
ial meeting Wednesday night at
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Annex, voted “to accept the offer of
Dallas Branch of Miners National
Bank to lend the Borough $25,000
at three percent interest for the
purchase of Oliver Motors property
on Main Street as a Borough Build
ing. >
Council then passed a resolution
to borrow only $21,000 of this am-
ount. The balance of $4,000 will be
paid out of the Borough's current
revenues. The loan from Dallas
nual installments over a ten-year
period.
Atty. Burt B. Lewis, Borough sol-
icitor, reported having searched the
title and that everything is in order
for completion of the transaction.
Borough president Joseph Mac-
Veigh named Raymond Hedden
chairman of the Building Commit-
tee with all other members of Coun-
cil serving as committee members.
All Councilmen were present with
and Warden Kunkle.
It is expected that payment for
the building wiil be made to Oliver
Motors today and that the Borough
will take possession within sixty
days.
Council authorized James Beseck-
er, secretary, to sell its present.
property on Mill Street to the high-
est bidder.
LEE M. WHITE
A June graduate of the Penn
State Technical Institute, 669 North
Washington street, Wilkes-Barre,
Lee M. White, of 17 Baldwin street,
is employed as a senior draftsman
‘at the Scintilla Division of Bendix
Aviation Corporation, Sidney, N. Y.
Lee studied mechanical and pro-
duction tool design at the Institute.
He is a graduate of Dallas Township
High School, and is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Niles White.
The Technical Institute next Mon-
day will begin its new two-year col-
lege terminal programs in drafting
and design technology and electrical
technology,
On September 28th, evening
classes will start at the Wilkes-
Barre school. The following subjects
in the programs of industrial elec-
tricity, mechanical and production
tool design, building construction,
tion ,direct current circuits, wiring
and installations, tool design,
strength of materials, engineering
economics, drafting, legal aspects of
contracting, vlan reading, problems
of construction, television circuit
analysis, algebra, trigonometry, bus-
iness organization and manage-
ment, accounting, advertising, sales-
manship, retailing, personnel rela-
tions, office methods and English
composition.
Classes are held three - hours
nightly, Mondays and Thursdays.
Resumes Teaching
Col. Norman Smith, formerly of
Huntsville, and more recently of
Spring Lake Ranch, Cuttingsville,
Vt., has been appointed instructor
and athletic director of the Rectory
School, Pomfert, Conn.
Col. Smith was formerly athletic
director at Wyoming Seminary.
Dallas PTR To Meet
Parent-Teacher Association of the
Dallas Borough Elementary School
will meet at the school auditorium,
Monday night. Stewart Graham, in
charge of school safety patrols, will
be the speaker. 3
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