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.
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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.
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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
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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. -