EEE a needed. Gifts that tarnish . mas a great Holy Day. Dear Kids: ful one in the world. will be safe. It CAN happen to you. lies in ruins. grow up. We love you so. Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks FROM. orably closing. . To each, his own. Tradition is a binding thing, deep rooted in the race. We need traditional observ- ance. We take on the new, but we look longingly back at the old, to the basic, fundamental, FIRSTS of our life, ] If Christmas when we were child- ren meant a bulging stocking hang- with flaxen curls sitting under the Christmas tree, no Christmas seems complete without these symbols. No elaborate Television set can com- pensate for their absence. Christ- mas lacks its savor. : If Christmas meant Santa Claus, there must be a Santa Claus. If Christmas meant a tiny creche embowered with greenery, weary camels kneeling at the Wise Men’s command, and shepherds bowing low under the Christmas Star, then Christmas must embody these sym- bols of our childhood or there is a vacancy which cannot be filled. But always and forever, no mat- ter what the symbol, the founda- tion of love remains the same for all of us. : Post To Come Out Early Next Week Next week’s issue of The Dallas Post will go to press on Wednesday and will be on the streets and in the mails on Thursday morning, one day earlier than usual. We will ap- preciate your cooperation in sending your items in early. Billings Delayed Local billings of Commonwealth Telephone Company were delayed two to three days this month due to the added burden of mailing 15,000 monthly statements from the local office for the Pennsylvania Community Telephone Company, newest addition to the Common- wealth family. Changing To Dial Commonwealth Telephone Com- piny is cutting over its fortieth exchange to dial on December 28 at Tioga in the Wellsboro District. ‘ VOL. 64, No. 52 The Dallas Post Telephone Numbers 4-5656 or 4-7676 Rotary Is Host To Fifty-Four Boys and Girls Santa Dropped In At Prince Of Peace Parlors On Saturday Dallas Rotary Club with the help of members and friends entertained fifty-two youngsters at its annual Christmas Party Saturday afternoon in Prince of Peace Church Parlors. and Robert Graves, party chairman, arrived early, thanks to Ted Poad, and presents were given each child. Film stories of the Birth of Christ and the poem Night Before Christ- mas were shown. Gaily colored puppets portrayed the parts in the film which has been shown to many groups in the area by Com- monwealth Telephone Company. Members of Prince of Peace Coup- les Club furnished sandwiches. Mes- dames Ralph Smith, Edwin Roth and Jack Stanley prepared the re- freshments which included sand- wiches, cookies, ice cream, and chocolate milk given by Nesbitt Garinger. The group heartily sang several carols and Rev. McClelland read a story. As the children prepared to go home, each received a parting present in the form of a pretty favor of candy, fruit and gum en- closed in colorful cellophane by Harry Smith. The Rotary Club is grateful to the many people who contributed and helped with the party. Among the Rotarians who brought children; @nd helped with the entertainment were: Francis Ambrose, Myron Baker, Atlee Beagle, James Beseck- er, Robert Bodycomb, Joseph Bond, Daniel Chapman, Hanford Eckman, Harry Edwards, A. N. Garinger, Paul Gross, Robert Graves, Lester Jordan, L. F. Kingsley, Sheldon Mosier, Charles - Roberts, Harry Smith, Peter Yokum, Walter Mohr and William McClelland. Miners Plans | To Split Stock - Directors Approve Re-Issue At 5 to 1 Directors of Miners National Bank | of Wilkes-Barre at their meeting | Tuesday morning declared a regular | semi-annual dividend of $3 as well as an extra dividend of $1 a share | to shareholders of record as of De- cember 24, 1954. The dividends are payable January 10, 1955. | At the same time the Board | agreed to split the stock 5 to 1 but this must await the approval of the stockholders and the Comptroller of the Currency. A special stockhold- ers meeting will be called later since there is not time for sufficient notice before the regular annual stockholders’ meeting. Frank Anderson, president, said the stock split will permit a broad- er market for the distribution of the stock. Current market has been around $153 per share. Former Air Marshal Commonwealth Guest A. F. Lang, Chicago, retired vice marshal of the Royal Air Force of England, was a guest this week in Dallas of Col. H. H. Butler, general manager, and Jack Sordoni, presi- dent of Commonwealth Telephone Company. During the early stages of World War II he was Director of Radar in charge of the defense of the British Isles. He is now overseas engineering and political representative of the Automatic Equipment Company of Chicago from which the Common- wealth Company purchases much of its dial equipment. New Skating Rink Opens For Business Low temperatures of the last few days have frozen a beautiful glare of smooth ice on Tibus Sno Moun- tain Ice Skating Rink on Memorial Highway. The rink is open daily from 2 to 6 and from 7 to 11. Rates are 20c for children and 35c¢ for adults with special concessions to large parties. Between 250 and 300 skaters can Sunday morning. Pupils To Attend School Next Week Lake-Noxen students returned to school Monday morning at the usual days because of lack of water. Fri- day morning’s test of the 257-foot eight-inch drilled well showed that the flow had been stepped up bv recent rains and melting snow, and Pupils will make up three days of lost time during the holidays, attending school on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. One day has already been made up, as the school was originally scheduled to close on Wednesday for Christmas in- stead of Thursday. Another two days will be snipped from the Easter vacation, with stu- dents attending school Holy Thurs- day and Easter Monday, leaving only eight school days to be made up in June. Sally Kear, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Lloyd Kear, Lake Street, es- { wreckage of a brand new Chrysler Sunday marning at 2 a.m., when it skidded on a patch of ice, ploughed through the guard rail. Catapulted through the drivers win- dow she landed in a huddle, and was on her feet immediately, wav- ing her white coat to flag down traffic. ! The only badly injured passenger was Timothy Mack, South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, who was ad- mitted to Nesbitt Hospital in shock, { bleeding profusely from the mouth, | and tentatively diagnosed as hav- ing a punctured lung. At last re- ports he was doing well, but his mother, Mrs: Alice Mack, died at Nesbitt Monday morning, following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered when told of her son’s accident. Francis Judge, 20, driver of the car; James Hughes, 21; and James Eagen, 21, were treated for shock be accommodated at one time. There is also music. —Photo by James Kozemchak | at Nesbitt. Paula Heffernan, 20, had | seven stitches in a laceration of her leg. The young people were return- ing Sally to Dallas after a dinner party at the home of Dr. and Mrs. | Francis P. Judge. Young Judge took | the wrong fork in the road, found himself passing. New Goss Manor, | and attempted to turn to the left | to find Lake Street. { Dallas Community Ambulance, | driven by Al Shaffer, took Mr. Mack | to the hospital, followed by Jiggs | Elston and Norti Berti, who trans- | ported other passengers for ‘treat- | ment. A group of doctors and nurses coming home from the Nesbitt Hos- pital party at Irem Country Club, assisted at the scene of the accident and followed ambulance and cars to the hospital. James Gansel, Dallas Township Chief of Police, stationed his son,”home for the holidays, far up the road to halt speeding cars. Scores of New Goss Manor residents turned out of bed when they heard the crash. Sally narrowly escaped death in a holiday accident two years ago, when the car in which she was a passenger crashed a telephone pole a few miles south of Berwick. (Continued on Page 8) There have been prettier Christ- mas trees in front of the Common- wealth Telephone Company Build- ing on Lake Street, but probably none more difficult to trim. Jack Landis had a line crew erect it and a cable truck crew trim it on Tuesday. They did the best they could but that isn’t the whole story. For years this particular ever- green presented a problem to line- men working in the Falls area. Its owners refused to have it trimmed. “Some day,” they said, “we hope to sell it for a Christmas tree.” i | i —Photo by Kozemchak Remembering that, Jack Landis, who is not a man to let a problem Westmoreland Pupil Cost Is Below Average Cost Throughout - Nation, However, Is On Increase An interesting comparison of the cost of educating a pupil in average daily attendance in the Westmore- land Jointure with the cost of edu- cating a pupil in Luzerne County Schools as a whole is revealed in correspondence this. week between James A. Martin, supervising prin- cipal of Westmoreland schools and William E. Mannear, manager of Wyoming Valley Taxpayers Asso- ciation. The figures reveal that it cost $24.61 less to educate a pupil in the Westmoreland Jointure during the term 1951-52 than it did to educate a pupil in the county schools at large. The per pupil cost that term was Westmoreland $222.76; Luzerne County at large, $247.37. The cost for educating a pupil in the West- moreland jointure during the 1953- 54 term, however, has increased $6.49 to $229.25, but the figures for the county, not yet announced, have likewise increased. Mr. Martin's letter to Mr. Man- near follows: December 16, 1954 William E. Mannear, Manager Tax Payers Association of Wyoming Valley 1050-1054 Miners Bank Bldg. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvani Dear Mr. Mannear: = In my letter to you yesterday i‘ gave the amounts budgeted for school ‘year 1954-1955 and the ADM. for 1953-54 from which you would determine “the current ex- penditure per pupil in average daily membership” to be $249.80. This was in accordance with a telephone conversation that I had with your Mr. Hiscox. Wednesday morning's Wilkes- Barre Record had a long news item quoting the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance for Pennsylvania and for Luzerne County. » In order for us to have compar- able figures I wish you to use these statistics: : The Current Expenditure Per Pu- pil in Average Daily Membership: (Pennsylvania Bulletin 74 of June, 1954.) 1950-51 for Pennsylvania was $246.00; 1951-52 for Luzerne County $247.37; 1953-54 for Dallas Borough-Kingston Township $229.25 Registered Audits; 1951-52 Kingston Township $222.76 Registered Audits. Note: If you had the 1953-54 fig- ures for Pennsylvania’ and for Luz- erne County they would be higher than for the years given above. Source of the $229.26 for the Dallas Borough-Kingston Township Schools: Registered Audits for 1953-54 Kingston Twp. Dallas Borough A $ 4,439.06 $ 2,878.59 B 170,313.17 58,378.72 C 9,501.80 3,912.00 $184,254.03 $ 65,169.31 This being a school jointure the costs on the individual audits in- clude items A, B, C, D, E and F of the joint audit. All items are in- cluded except G which is for Debt Service. 1087.97 is the A.D.M. (average daily membership) for our schools for 1953-54 as shown on our report PICA — 13 to Harrisburg in June, 1954. Yours truly, Jas. A. Martin Comparing the $229.25 spent for educating a pupil in the Westmore- land Jointure during 1953-54 with (Continued on Page Five) stand in his way for long, went to Falls this season and bargained for 2 Christmas tree. He got it for a price—$25. : Looking at it now with its color- ful lights, Jack muses: “It’s not as nice as we’d like to have. It's a little scrawny around the bottom where it was crowded by other trees and it cost us $10 more than we usually pay but at’ last we've trimmed it—to our satisfaction.” Commonwealth offices will close ot noon on Friday for their annual £hristmas party. The office will ¢lso close at noon on the following l'riday before New Years. -
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