Deer Leaps In
Path Of Truck
While driving to his home in East
Dallas Monday night about 6:30 in
Hislop’s Economy Store truck, Tom-
my Moore struck a four-point deer
near the intersection of Route 309
and Center Hill Road.
The buck leapt into his path with
such suddenness that Tom had little
opportunity to apply the brakes.
The deer was badly injured. Game
Protectors who were called dis-
patched it.
When the new $10,000,000 In-
stitution for Defective Delinquents
in Jackson Township begins to ac-
cept youths in late 1956, it will mark
the opening of a unique institution
Nobody But
NOBODY
Beats Motor
Twins At Keeping
1953 FORD
Cs.2 Dr. R&H 1
"1295
Cu 2 Dr. re 999
1953 PLYM. 1 095
Cl. Cp. R&H
Lon. ren 1049
Automatic Drive
ior. nam 1199
"993
1953 FORD
4 Dr. R&H
1951 KAISER
4 Dr. Dlx. R&H
‘49%
Overdrive
1950 FORD $ 49 5
1949 CHEV. ‘445
2 Dr. R&H
1949 PONTIAC
4 Dr. R&H 49 5
2br. at 0.0. 449
295
1948 OLDS
4 Dr. R&H
ET
et ——
A
——-
OPEN NIGHTS
AND SUNDAYS
$2895
$2195
$1399
$1395
$1995
$1695
$1395
1352 OLDS 88 se
$1295
$1195
$1395
$ 995
$ 995
§ 495
~ BU 7-1133
VA 4-4283
in the history of the Commonwealth.
Designed to accommodate up to 1,-
500 inmates, the new institution
will be designed specifically as a
correctional institution for the train-
ing and treatment of male, mentally
deficient delinquents.
Individuals sent to the setup from
all the State’s 67 counties—because
they have committed some offense
against the law. and because their
intelligence is below normal. They
will receive training and treatment
aimed at improving the manner in
which they use their limited intel-
lgence and other abilities.
The institution is not to be con-
fused with a hospital for the men-
tally ill. It will focus an individual-
centered program of training and
treatment, stressing industrial and
disciplinary instruction and guidance
for better citizenship.
Among the first inmates entering
the new institution, near Dallas, will
be all defective delinquents housed
at the Pennsylvania Institution for
Defective Delinquents at Hunting-
don. There are 860 defective delin-
quents at Huntingdon, but some of
those will have been paroled by the
time the new institution is complet-
ed. Sole purpose of the new institu-
tion will be to develop to the fullest
extent qualities possessed by the de-
linquent individuals whose mental
equipment places them below nor-
mal standards. It will not be, in any
sense of the word, a hospital. Its
hope will be to assist the inmates
in acquiring skills within the field
of their mental limitations.
Operation of the Jackson Town-
ship Instituticn will be patterned
after the Institution for Defective
Delinquents at Huntingdon, of which
John D. Pennington has been super-
intendent 18 years. The Huntingdon
institution was not designated as a
penal institution for defective delin-
quents until March 1, 1945. Prior
to that it was known as an indus-
trial school. It is now in the process
of being converted into a medium
security prison.
Pennington has developed sound
principles and methods of operations
for the institution for defective de-
linquents and it is anticipated Pen-
nington’s individualized training
programs will be continued at the
new institution in Jackson Town-
ship. The guiding principle will be
control without repression and con-
trol without sentimentality. The
ideal will be “firmness without
harshness; strength without bru-
tality; kindness without indulgence.”
Personnel of the institution will
take into consideration the fact
most deficient individuals are born
that way. In only rare cases the con-
dition occurs after birth. To be men-
tally deficient is just as permanent
a personal handicap as to be born
without an arm or leg. There is no
training or treatment known to sci-
ence to provide intelligence which
the individual never had, just as it
is impossible for man to grow an
arm or leg.
The mentally deficient are very
slow learners. A long period of in-
dustrial and disciplinary training is
required to teach them proper and
rderly work and behavior habits.
lone will ever become perfect in
he sense that their low intelligence
s ‘“‘cured.” ?
The training program at Jackson
“ownship institution will aim to re-
urn those individuals to their homes
vho can and do learn enough to be-
ave properly and work regularly
nder © continnine supervision in
“Roddy Is Ready”
WE HAVE THE
CARS
AT YOUR PRICE
COME IN, LOOK THEM OVER |
—COMPARE THEM AS TO |
i CONDITION, APPEARANCE
AND PRICE WITH ANY IN
4 THE CITY.
REMEMBER
No Down Payment
01. ‘san, Bawpoed ... 1415
Ie LE | 245
| Soottesset Tito ov. $1205
VEC 1A
! 1952 PLYM. 4 Dr. San. $
R&H. Clean. ..... 2845
| 25 Cars in the years of 46-50
PRICES START AT $25.00
|
| TWO BIG LOCATIONS
|
75 TO CHOOSE FROM
| RODDY’S |
1 Pierce at 1st Ave. | 550 S. Main St. |
Kingston W.-B.
BU 7-0003 YA 4-511 |
Oil Company here to ‘help the
March of Dimes Campaign. His
Service stations
profits to the National Fou
proach, housing, school and work
assignments, discipline, physical and
mental health, the determination of
the date of parole, as well as care-
ful planning for adjustment of the
boy in family and social life upon
release.
Broadly conceived, education in
the institution will include the fol-
lowing elements: Discipline, health,
school, recreational activities, voca-
tional and industrial training, re-
ligious and moral training. It is in-
tended to form regular work habits,
create a spirit of cooperation with
others in work and play; and give
training in specific situations in
habits of self-reliance, dependability,
honesty and trustworthiness.
Pennington is known in this area
having been chief enforcement of-
ficer in ‘Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware during part of the
prohibiticn era. At the time the local
prohibition enforcement office was
on second floor of the Berk Building,
South Washington and East North-
ampton Streets.
A retired naval commander who
rose through the ranks, Pennington
had experience in Navy institutional
operations before he became super-
intendent at the Pennsylvania State
institution at Huntingdon. For a time
during Gov. George H. Earle’s ad-
ministration Pennington served as
State Secretary of Welfare in addi-
free society.
The new Jackson Township cor-
rectional institution will provide in-
dustrial and disciplinary training
for male defective delinquent 15
years of age or more on admission.
Commitments will be from all 67
counties in the State. All admissions
will be by court order for commis-
sion of a crime or as a juvenile de-
linquent, after proper examination
by qualified examiners. Some sen-
tenced cases also will be transferred
from other penal institutions or the
diagnostic centers by administrative
order, according to law.
According to latest data compiled
at Huntingdon (similar figures pre-
sumably will apply at Jackson Town-
ship) statistics show 65 per cent
of the inmates are white and 35 per
cent are Negro. Admissions average
12 monthly and discharges average
11 a month. Average IQ is 63. For-
ty-five per cent of the inmates are
illiterate on admission. Average ad-
mission age of population is 23 years,
with the range from 15 years to 56
years. Average individual training
program of those discharged in 1953
was 55 months, with range from 17
months to 153 months.
Since the defective delinquent is
a notoriously slow learner, the train-
ing program at Jackson Township
will be by necessity a protracted
one. All institutional activities will
be geared to the inmates level and
all personnel indoctrinated accord-
ingly. Patience and understanding
‘will be cardinal custodial virtues in
the institution.
Main objective of the institution
will be rehabilitating the inmate
through a process of retraining of
each individual. By retraining is
meant what commonly is called
character formation. Training will
not be merely an affair of the school
and shop. It will be equally an af-
fair of the playground, of the din-
ing hall and the cell house. Basic
objectives will be character build-
ing. Acquisition of skills will be sec-
ondary.
As at Huntingdon, the heart of
the rehabilitation program will be
found in the operation of a classified
clinic, which consists of representa-
tives of the professional, custodial,
mechanical and industrial services.
Classification includes the follow-
ing aspects: custody, guidance ap-
tion to his duties at the Hunting-
don institution. Pennington was here
last Thursday at the ground break-
ing ceremonies for the new institu-
tion in Jackson Township.
—From The Wilkes-Barre Record
EYES ON GOAL
Successful is the man who goes
straight forward—with an aim on
only what is right.
®
FS a _—
1953 Lincoln "Capri Coupe.
RH, Hydramatic, Power Seat,
X Brakes and Windows A real
beauty. Le S0TSD
Only
1952 Mieiauty. Ciro. Custom 4 Dr.
RH, Mercomatic. .A real
sweetheart for
ONY: seeocrrcenons 5 1395
1953 Ford 8 Cyl. 2
Heater and seat covers. A
i real good car and a real
good price.
1954 Mercury Monterey Sta- :
tion Wagon. This is the one
you are looking for. RH, ¥
Power Brakes. Looks and ™
runs like new.
Only eoeeecccoaces $2595
1949 Oldsmobile 66 4 Dr.
Sedan. RH, a clean running ]
car for shah | 4
Only ceeeeesrveersne
1949 Ford Custom 8 2-Dr.
sesccccccsce
| Only
Dark blue, RH and seat covers. ¥
See this one today §
for only . 495
| eo KINGSTON CORNERS |
Cars Phone BU 8-1444 Open Eves. lk
A = — h —— Se =
"49
6
52
63
03
Radio & Hogior
CHEV. Styl
Heater, £te.
FORD 6 Cyl
Heater
CHEV, 210
CHEV. 210
P.G., Heater
03 »
"03
CHEV. P.G.,
P.S., Heater,
5000 Mi.
STRAY
SPORT MODELS
50 SLB Icon. 5809
"50 Pc. aio & 899
Heater.
"81 Power cide °999
Radio & Heater
"51 Ge. power 2999
Glide, Radio & Heater.
"52 ‘ir. radio « *1199
Heater.
’53 Ronaster 1199
Radios tier. 1499
"48 CHEV. Aero ......5249
"43 FORD Sedan ....$229
ERS
i
TWO BIG DRIVE-IN LOTS
4 DOOR SEDANS
DODGE Cor.
Radio & fonter B99
Del. radio «1049
Heater.
CHEV. Sty. §
Radio & al 143
Del. P.G.
Sta. Tier. ote.” 1099
02
02
03
53
Be ire
*1319
‘Wegn. Htr.
WE ARE FAST
APPROACHING THE
| TIME OF YEAR WHEN
| ALL ROADS LEAD
| 10 ROAM!
This is the best time
to buy a good used
| car. We will pay for
your license tags on
any of the following.
All Units Above
$500.00
RECONDITIONED and GUARANTEED
1954 Ford
Sunliner, Radio, Heater
Fordomatic
$2295
1954 Ford
Crestline, 4 Door, Radio,
Heater, Overdrive
*1895
1954 Ford
4 Door Custom, Heater,
Turn Signals
$1695
1953 Mercury
2 Door Deluxe, Radio,
Heater
$1595
1953 Chevrolet
Bel Air 4 Door Sedan,
Radio, Heater, Powerglide
$1495
1952 Chevrolet
2 Door Deluxe, Radio,
Heater, Powerglide
*1095
1951 Ford
Deluxe 2 Door, Radio,
Heater
$795
1950 Chevrolet
Deluxe 2 Door, Radio,
Heater, Powerglide
695
1949 Chevrolet
Deluxe 4 Door, Heater
575
1948 Plymouth
4 Door, Radio, Heater
$395
1947 Pontiac
4 Door, Radio, Heater
$295
1946 Plymouth
Club Cpe., Radio, Heater
$245
1946 Plymouth
4 Door, Radio, Heater
*195
Easy Terms
Low Rates
BE SURE
BE A-1 SURE
Luzerne Motor
Company
Your Friendly FORD
Dealer On The West Side
Kingston-Dallas Highway
Luzerne, Pa,
You Can’t Lose At Luzerne