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‘One of the nicest things that has
happened to the Back Mountain in
a long time is Alwine Susanne Ger-
trude Mathers, nee Lohn. F. Gordon
Mathers Jr. brought his bride to
Knob Hill in August. They were
married in the Air Force chapel at
Bitburg, Germany, April 7, after a
courtship and engagement lasting
over two years.
Inquiries are of the strictest when
a member of the armed services
marries a girl on foreign soil, and
clearance is time-consuming. The
entire life story must be a care-
fully scrutinized open book. One
glance at young Mrs. Mathers would
show that she is of exceptionally
fine parentage and background, but
nonetheless red tape must be
painstakingly unwound instead of
cut.
So, inquiries were launched at
Coblenz, where she was born, and
where her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Lohn, still reside; at Bonn,
where she attended boarding school
and later the University; the Sor-
bonne and the University of Mad-
rid, where she studied under the
aegis of International Federation of
Students Club. Thirteen months
after the engagement was announ-
ced, the official blessing was given,
and the young couple married by
the Lutheran chaplain.
Mrs. Mathers, experienced in buy-
ing, from a position held in Bonn,
managed the Post Exchange at Bit-
burg. Fluent in both German and
English, and with a working know-
ledge of French and Spanish, she
also acted as interpreter.
Her hobbies are books and photo-
graphy. She hopes to accumulate
apparatus for enlarging her prints.
She uses good German cameras
with fine lenses.
Compares Scenery
Pennsylvania scenery is not so
breath-taking as that along the
Rhine and the Moselle, she says,
but. it is beautiful in the Back
Mountain, and the scenery is easy
to live with. Brought up in the
Mathers is accustomed to vineyards
clinging to the steep hillsides, and
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to the rushing confluence of the
Rhine and the Moselle where the
two rivers meet at the lower end
of Coblenz.
On the flight home from Frank-
furt to Idlewild, Bud remembers
with a shudder that thirty-six child-
ren, most of them airsick, were
shut up together in a plane cabin
not much longer than a good sized
living room, together with their re-
spective parents, also air-sick. Very
little sleep for anybody, he says,
but it didn’t last long.
Bud would enjoy teaching Alwine
to hunt, but regulations are strict.
Alwine will not be permitted to
have a hunting license for three
years, but she can acompany her
does not handle a gun. The assump-
tion that the beautiful blue-eyed
girl with the poise and assurance
of generations of breeding might
take a pot-shot at a resident is
ridiculous, but regulations are reg-
ulations.
And speaking of regulations, Bud
reports that one service-man had
his marriage held up for almost a
year while solemn inquiry was
made into the criminal record of
his bride-to-be. Her offense? She
had picked up six apples under a
tree. This record had to be ex-
punged from the police blotter be-
fore the marriage could proceed.
Young Mrs. Mathers expects her
parents to visit her in May, to re-
main two months. The apartment
house which they own in Coblenz
was damaged by bombing, but has
been reconditioned, with units once
more suitable for rental. Mr. Lohn
retired from his position with the
railroad after the war, with a rec-
ord of forty-five years of service.
Bud, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
G. Mathers, Sr. was educated in
Kingston Township schools, at Wy-
oming Seminary, and at the Uni-
versity of Miami. Now twenty-six,
he is associated with his father in
the construction business. Overseas
in Germany, he was engaged in
installation at the Air Base in Bit-
burg, with the rank of staff ser-
geant. He entered the service four
years ago.
All the children are a year older
and a year bigger. They seem to
take up an unaccountable amount
of room. No voices are beginning to
crack, but judging from the height
of some of the older boys, it won't
be long before they blush at bass
tones unexpectedly interspersing
themselves with childish falsetto.
And then some young father will
find his changeling son fingering
his razor, and it will dawn on him
like a thunderclap that perhaps he
himsel} is not so slim as he was
when he was twenty, and he will
wonder what happened to all those
crowding years when his hair was
beginning imperceptibly to thin,
and his trim waistline to widen.
It is always a jolt to a set of
parents to find that their children
are growing up, but it is a healthy
jolt. It means doing what my
grandmother used to call, “letting
out another link.” It requires read-
justment all along the line, and
should bring with it a happy real-
ization that growing children are
now able to assume a great deal of
responsibility. Giving it to them re-
quires inner fortitude and is hedged
about with misgivings, but the mis-
givings should be kept strictly
where they belong, well concealed
in the mind of the parents, and
not allowed to show on the surface.
If you tell a child with assurance
that he can do something, the
chances are he will make a stab at
it and come up with the right an-
swer, the hidden strength matching
the requirement.
Folks who moan that the children
are growing up have never come
into intimate contact with parents
who have children who will never
grow up, who would give anything
they possess to see signs of dawn-
ing intelligence in dull little eyes,
the spark of happy accomplishment
in a vacant little face.
People have so much to be thank-
ful for when they can look about
on children and grandchildren, find-
ing them keen and alert in mind
and fit in body, able to take part
in the world’s work, meeting life
on its own terms with chin up and
shoulders squared.
Life is not always easy. It
shouldn’t be. Nobody ever devel-
oped strength of body or character
by inaction. It is the constant chal-
lenge that keeps the mind and body
in condition. If there were nothing
to work for, nothing to excite the
imagination, no star on the horizon,
life would not be worth living.
“For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies
For the love that from our birth
Over and around us lies
Christ our Lord to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.”
Forty-Eight Men
Attend Breakfast
Forty-eight men attended the
breakfast following Communion
Sunday morning at the Church of
the Prince of Peace.
Paul Goddard, president of the
Men’s Club, presided following the
pancake and sausage breakfast
served in the Parish Hall and wel-
comed the non-members who had
been invited by: individual mem-
bers.
In an enlightening talk, Rev.
William McClelland, rector, traced
the history of the Episcopal Church
in America.
Attending were: Woodworth Al-
len, Edwin Roth, Ralph Pastorive,
Harry Lee Smith, Joseph Sekara,
Charles Brooke, Francis Ambrose,
Joseph MacVeigh, Res Tryon, Cur-
tis 'Protheroe, Peynton Lee, Arthur
Beveridge, Ralph Smith, Robert
Milne, John Vernon, Jack Stanley,
Elmer Dennis, Oswald Griffiths,
Lloyd Kear, David Williams, Donald
Clark, B. Wright Yocum, Charles
DeWees, Jr., Jonathan Valentine,
Donald Evans, Howard Risley, Clar-
ence Woodruff, Albert James, Ed-
ward Ratcliffe, Edward Meneeley,
Thomas Andrew, Algert Antanaitis,
Paul Goddard, Rev. William McClel-
land, Thomas Hillyer, Martin Hill-
yer, Robert Buntz, George Olson,
Ronald Carruthers, James York,
Alfonso D’ Amario, Russell Taylor,
David Perry and James Jones.
No Date Set
For Holiday
Street Lights
Dallas Branch Bank
Offers Big Spruce
For Community Tree
Plans for Community Christmas
Lighting and a Home Decoration
Contest were incomplete yesterday
as the Post went to press. It was
understood that Dallas Borough
Council will sponsor the lighting of
Main Street the same as it did last
year with collections from the mer-
chants beng made by Chief Russell
Honeywell.
Dallas Branch of Miners National
Bank will contribute the Community
Christmas tree, a tall spruce now
growing at the rear of the Bank.
Donald Evans, president of the
now defunct Dallas Businessmen’s
Association, said he hopes that some
civic or social organization will take
over the sponsorshp of a Christmas
Home Lighting Contest such as was
sponsored by the businessmen for a
number of years.
Warmouth Wins
College Honors
Elected For Second
Time To “Who's Who"
A former staff member of the
Dallas Post, and a resident of Dal-
las, R. D. 2, Dale Warmouth, son of
Mrs. Elva Warmouth, has again
won distinction at Wilkes College.
He has been notified for the sec-
ond year, of his appointment to
“Who's Who in American Univer-
sities and Colleges,” a yearly direc-
tory of student leaders. Thirteen
upperclassmen will be listed in the
coming edition of “Who's Who,”
but only two of these have been
chosen for the second time.’ ;
Selection of students is made by
members of the college administra-
tion on the basis of leadership and
scholastic standing. In both fields,
Warmouth has excelled. His crea-
tive writing won him the scholar-
ship he has held since 1950. He
was granted the Mrs. James A. Mec-
Kane Award, a cash prize given to
the Wilkesman who ranked highest
in his class during his first two
years at college.
His activities have been many
and varied. He not only wrote two
one-act plays for the dramatic
group, “Cue ‘n’ Curtain,” but for
three years wrote publicity, acted
and had charge of programs. War-
mouth was, also, a member on the
staff of the three student publica-
tions, the Beacon, Amnicola, and
Manuscript, the college literary
magazine,
He resigned from his appoint-
ment “as copy editor of the year-
book and as editor of the Manu-
script, in order to accept the posi-
tion last year as director of public
relations and alumni secretary. To
fulfill his duties in the public re-
lations office, Warmouth postponed
his graduation.
An alumnus of Dallas Township
High School where he was valedic-
torian of his class and editor of
the school paper, Warmouth has
continued his writing. His poetry
has been published in such maga-
zines as “The Writer,” The Review
of Contemporary Poetry,” “The
New Atheneum,” “Trails,” and has
appeared in college verse manuals
and the anthologies of the National
Poetry Association. He was award-
ed the Ann Hamilton Poetry Prize
in 1950. :
Warmouth was a delegate to the
New York ‘Herald Tribune Forum
in 1952 and 1953. For the past two
years, the Dallas senior has lived in
Ashley Hall, one of the three men’s
dormitories, where he has served
as proctor. !
Football Squad
Will Be Guests
Westmoreland Dinner
Planned December 4
Westmoreland Football Mothers
Club will entertain the football
squad, cheer leaders, coaches, and
managers at the annual banquet De-
cember 4 at 6:30 at. Westmoreland
high school. Jackets, and sweaters
will be presented by mothers to the
seniors. Letters will be awarded by
the coaches.
Cheer leaders are: Patty Farr,
Elaine Shotwell, Marlyn Shaver,
Patsy Carey, Nancy Wilkins, Judy
Roberts, Beverly Gosart, Carol Hem-
enway, Bess Weaver, Barbara
Brown, Lois Burnaford, and Betty
Lou Graham. 3
Mrs. James ‘Thomas and Mrs.
Charles Allabaugh are co-chairmen.
Mrs. Edward Carey will handle res-
ervations, assisted by Mrs. Frank
Hemenway. Mrs. Charles Heslop
and Mrs. Burton Roberts have
charge of decorations, Mrs. Frederic
Anderson the program. Mrs. Elwood
Dymond and Mrs. Fred Williams
will manage the dining room. Fath-
ers will be seated opposite their
Revival Preacher
Services Start Monday
At Bowman's Creek
Rev. Pauline Maxwell, of Endi-
cott, New York, will be the evan-
gelist during a week of revival meet-
ings at Bowman’s Creek Free Metho-
dist Church. Beginning Monday, and
continuing through Sunday, Decem-
ber 5, Miss Maxwell will speak each
night at 7:45. At present she is
pastor of Trinity Memorial Church
in Endicott. Previously she has had
wide experience in evangelistic work
throughout the nation, and is in
special demand for youth meetings.
The present pastor, Rev. A. Lewis
Payne, is a newcomer to our area,
though his brother, the Rev. James
S. Payne, was a previous pastor of
the same society, and is now pastor
of the Outlet Free Methodist Church.
It was during his pastorate that the
present church edifice at Bowman's
Creek was erected. His successor,
Rev. Russel Vanderhoof, continued
the building program with the con-
struction of a new parsonage. At the
last conference session he was trans-
ferred to Wilkes-Barre.
The Rev. Mr. Payne is a graduate
of the Eastern Nazarene (College in
Quincy, Mass., and has held pastor-
Allaben and Ferndale, New York,
and Providence, Rhode Island. He
also was District Superintendent of
the Windsor and New England Dis-
tricts of his denomination, and
prior to his coming to Bowman's
Creek he was in the evangelistic
field. Rev. and Mrs. Payne have four
children, one of whom, Donald, is
on the Dallas-Franklin Township
football team this year.
Mrs. Pollock Making
Progress At Nesbitt
Mrs. May Pollock, Trucksville RD,
is reported in fair condition at Nes-
bitt Memorial Hospital where she
was admitted November 11 after
her car crashed a tree in an effort
to avoid hitting a deer. Broken
ribs and lacerated chin requiring
eighteen stitches combined with ex-
treme shock, caused her to be plac-
ed upon the danger list on ad-
mission.
Dallas Post Closed
Friday & Saturday
Because the Thanksgiving
holiday gives our staff an op-
portunity for a long week end,
The Dallas Post will be closed
all day Friday and Saturday.
Sheehan Is Now
An Eagle Scout
Was Delegate To
National Jamboree
A Dallas boy who has made an
outstanding record in Scouting has
won the coveted Eagle Scout award.
He is John F. Sheehan, 14, son
of Borough Councilman and Mrs.
John Sheehan, of Huntsville Road,
and a grandsen of Mrs. Cave and
the late Councilman Nicholas Cave,
of Dallas.
John is a student in the tenth
grade at Wyoming Seminary. In ad-
dition to the twenty-one merit
JOHN F. SHEEHAN
sponsored by the Church of the
Prince of Peace. He joined it when
it was organized in 1951 with a
membership of six boys.
He has advanced from assistant
to Patrol Leader and finally was
picked as Senior Patrol Leader of
the troop. He is a member of the
Order of the Arrow which is the
National Brotherhood of Campers in
the Boy Scouts of Anierica.
In 1953 he was chosen to rep-
resent his troop and the Back Moun-
tain area at the National Scout
Jamboree in Los Angeles, California.
On attaining his fourteenth birth-
day he transferred to the Explorer
Scouts and is now a member of
Daddow-Isaacs Air Explorer Post
151.
He is active in all church and
community affairs and serves as an
acolyte at the Church of the Princa
of Peace.
During the Library Auction he
worked with the Scouts and Explor-
ers gathering materials and work-
ing on the clean-up squad.
Harold Titman Loses
Father In Death
Harold Titman, Dallas, lost his
father in the death of John R. Tit-
man of Tunkhannock Sunday night.
Mr. Titman, 83, died at Tyler Me-
morial Hospital following a heart
attack. Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon, followed by in-
terment at Sunnyside.
Kramer Buys
Chapel Lawn
To Develop Cemetery
Henry C. Kramer, the man who
developed the beautiful Twin Valley
Memorial Park at Delmont, Pa.
dropped in to visit the Post Friday
to clear up the mystery of the re-
cent telephone survey here to de-
termine how many people own
cemetery lots.
Mr. Kramer explained that he has
been negotiating for several months
to purchase Chapel Lawn Memorial
Park, established in 1937 near
Castle Inn, but never fully de-
veloped.
“Our sales manager John Ret-
enaur ‘was anxious to determine
how many people own lots,” Mr.
Kramer said, “and that's how the
confusion came about.”
“We want to make Chapel Lawn
a beautiful spot and to that end
are negotiating the purchase of ad-
ditional land bounded by property
owned by Castle Inn, Henry Good-
man, Harry and John Ruggles and
William Lamb.”
Mr. Kramer said Chapel Lawn will
have its main entrance on Harveys
Lake Highway and will be beauti-
fully planted with shrubs, spring
and summer flowers.
Dodson & Hudak have already
been commissioned to level off the
of top soil. Rave’s Nursery has the
contract for landscape gardening.
George McClure, Buffalo, N. Y., is
the architect; John T. Jeter is en-
gineer and Al Kane is the attorney.
Mr. Kramer said members of the
sales staff are Mrs. William Price,
Dallas, J. E. Dunlevy and Frank and
Bernard Ambrose, Harveys Lake.
Had negotiations been completed
earlier, Mr. Kramer said, Chapel
Lawn would have presented an un-
usual sight this spring for he would
have been able to plant tulip bulbs
this fall.
At Twin Valley Memorial Park,
which incidentally is in the area
served by Harold Payne's Marys-
ville Telephone ‘Company, 10,000
tulips were in bloom last spring.
Twin Valley comprises 265 acres,
twenty-five of which are under de-
velopment. Six thousand potted
plants were used at its entrance
last summer.
Mr. Kramer said there will be no
individual monuments in Chapel
Lawn and all graves will have per-
petual care.
New Jewelry Store
Opens In Shavertown
David Powell has opened a new
jewelry store in the Gosart Build-
ing, Center Street, Shavertown.
There he expects to handle a
complete line of watches, costume
jewelry and gift items.
A navy veteran of World War II,
Mr. Powell and his wife the former
Jean Lamoreaux, make their home
on Terrace Drive. He is presently
employed by Bloomsburg Mills and
will have the store open on alter-
nate weeks from 3 to 7 P.M. and
from 9:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrison
Celebrate Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Harrison,
Trucksville R. D. will celebrate their
twenty-first wedding anniversary
tomorrow, Saturday, November 27.
The Harrisons were married in
the Christian Church parsonage by
the Rev. Edwin Wyle.
They are the proud parents of
four children: Jacqueline E. Harris-
on, Margaret Harrison, Betty Ann
Ultimate Goal
Of Four Boards
To Meet Dec. 8
After Boards Take
Individual Action
Board members and supervising
principals of Dallas Borough, King-
ston, Dallas and Franklin Township
Schools agreed Monday night in
Dallas-Franklin high school library
that a senior high school is an
eventual necessity for the districts
named, and the sooner the better.
Any other solution of present
overcrowding and future heavy rise
in enrollment, they agreed, is mere-
ly a stop-gap.
Superintendent E. S. Teter said
construction of an adequate high
school building is the goal desired
by both Luzerne County and Har-
risburg offices. Relocation of stud-
a temporary measure.
He put himself on record that
the State will undoubtedly subsid-
ize the building.
To Lewis LeGrand’s question,
“What do you mean, subsidy ?”’ Mr.
Teter said the State will pay rental
on the building until the debt is
amortized, as in the case of the
new Ross Township school.
It was further brought out by
analysis of enrollment demand, that
the present Dallas-Franklin Town-
ship school building would need an
addition embracing a large shop
and a minimum of two classrooms,
no matter whether the Senior High
School plan goes through or not.
Harry Schooley, speaking for his
joint board, said that the Goss
building, present site of shop work
and vocational agriculture, was in
increasingly deplorable condition
and must be abandoned at the end
of the school year. Harrisburg has
already approved an addition, a
larger one than would be found
strictly necessary if senior high
school students were siphoned off
and-the school converted to exclus-
ively junior high and elementary
school uses.
Wesley Davis, assistant superin-
tendent of schools, said he hoped
he was not too far ahead of the |
boards in recommending construc-
tion of a senior high school. Harry
Schooley replied that on the con-
trary, the county office was just
catching up, that boards had agreed
in July that a senior high school
was the ultimate goal, and that all
that remained to be done was to
implement the proposition.
Mr. Teter suggested that as join-
ture was the first step, jointure
could well be effected within a
month or so, to take effect July 1
at the beginning of the fiscal year.
This would permit appointment of
a planning committee which could
start laying plans at once. Unless
plans were made immediately, oc-
cupancy could not be expected by
1957, and by that time increasing
pupil enrollment would present an
even greater problem than at pres-
ent. December 8 was set for the
next meeting, same time, same
place, to give individual boards
time to take action.
Alternative Proposals
Alternative proposals to con-
struction of a new high school have
been that Westmoreland high
school could be enlarged by addi-
tion of a new gymnasium and new
locker rooms releasing space for
more class rooms, and permitting
the present gymnasium to be used
as an auditorium. Shop, James
Martin pointed out, was elective for
senior high school students, and the
shop would not need enlargement.
First-grade students in the Dallas-
Franklin jointure, ready to start
school in the fall and within walk-
ing distance of Dallas Borough,
Shavertown, or Trucksville elemen-
tary school, could relieve pressure
on the crowded main school by at-
tending one of the three in the
Dallas Borough-Kingston Township
jointure. :
In this connection, Mr. Schooley
was emphatic in stating that his
district would not be in favor of
housing any of its students in the
frame building now used by the
kindergarten. James Hutchison re-
plied that there was no fire hazard,
because furnaces were located in
the main building.
Present were Dr. Robert Body-
comb, Harry Ohlman, D. T. Scott,
Lewis LeGrand, L.. L. Richardson,
from Dallas Borough; James Hutch-
ison, Mrs. Charles Eberle, Charles
Mannear, William Clewell, John
Wardell, Kingston Township; Harry
Schooley, Don Evans, Thomas
Moore, Dallas Township; Harold
vising principals James Martin and
Raymond Kuhnert; Principal Charles
James. Superintendent of Luzerne
County schools, E. S. Teter, assist-
ant superintendent Wesley Davis.
Robert Fleming, solicitor for Dallas
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