Two Easy to
Remember Phone
Numbers
4-5656 or 4-7676
VOL. 65, No. 31, FRIDAY,
AUGUST 5, 1955
their firmest friends.
They
that they wanted to . ..”
time . .:.
FROM.
sheltering Marie Antoinette.
It is astonishing that restoration
of one of the most colorful sites of
early American history has not been
attempted before. The very thought
of the nobility, dressed in velvets
and satins, parading slowly up and
down the walks between the log
houses, while puzzled Indians lurked
in the surrounding hills, is some-
thing that intrigues the imagina-
tion.
The first log house has already
been rebuilt, and plans laid for re-
storation’ of the entire original vil-
lage, including the two-story log
house designed for a primitive
palace.
It is a collossal task. Members of
French Azylum, Inc., hope to realize
enough from the three-night pageant
to swell their subscription fund of
$7,000, and make possible further
strides in restoration. The site was
purchased shortly after the society
was formed last October.
Everything connected with the re-
storation and pageant is on a vol-
unteer basis, but members know
what unusual material they are
handling, and they are bending
every effort to live up to a priceless
heritage.
It is a beauftiful site, overlooked
by frowning rocky heights which
afford a spectacular view for many
miles. Everybody in this area is well
accquainted with Wyalusing Rocks
and the heights beyond it toward
Towanda. The drive up through
Tunkhannock winds through some
of the lovliest scenery in Pennsyl-
vania, and it is short enough not
to tire the smallest child.
Arrived at French Azylum, time
rolls back, and visitors stand upon
hallowed ground. The heroic French
had cast their lot with the thirteen
Colonies in their revolt against
England. It ‘was fitting that when
their own bloody Revolution gath-
ered momentum, they should turn
to this country for sanctuary.
They were not willing to abandon
their standards of living. Though
surrounded by wilderness and faced
by necessity for gaining a living,
they remembered that they were
of gentle birth, and never failed
to don their best attire in the late
afternoon, so that tradition might
be maintained and the etiquette of
a highly civilized nation carried out.
' When repatriation was possible in
part abandoned, and Nobles and
their wives accepted amnesty and
restoration of their properties in
France, The mainspring of the proj-
ect had been broken long before,
when Marie Antoinette was stopped
at Varennes in her flight from Paris,
and eventually guillotined for the
crime of being a queen.
History has been painstakingly
studied to make details authentic
and the past live again. IChoruses
and dancers have been carefully
trained to supplement the main
speaking parts.
Lineal descendants of the Iroquois
Indians perform a ceremonial dance.
Wyalusing Jubilee Players rollick
through a Yankee Hoe-down. Chil-
dren from Towanda and Troy do a
folk-dance. And La Grande Balle is
presented by the cast of Buckskin
and Velvet.
Braves in buckskin and Nobles
in Velvet recreate a chapter from
our early American heritage that
should be of vital interest to every-
body in this section of the State, for
there are many descendants of those
original refugees from France who
embraced the new country and
never returned to their native land.
Mrs. Helfrich Will Soon
Return To Post Office
Mrs. Mabel Helfrich, Main Street,
will resume her duties as custodian
in Dallas Post-Office within a few
weeks, according to Joseph Polacky,
Postmaster. Mrs. Helfrich was in-
from a stepladder at her home, suf-
fering a compound fracture of the
leg.
Mrs. Stanley Wroblewski, Center
Hill Road, has been taking her place
at the Post Office.
Flack Is Leading
Senator Harold E. Flack of the
Twentieth District is one of the
leading opponents of Governor
George Leader’s Tax Bill.
In a statement issued early this
week from his Goss Manor home
Flack said:
The iniquitous pressures that were
employed to force Governor Leader’s
inequitable tax bill through the
lower house of the General Assem-
bly will be of no avail when—and
if—the measure reaches the Senate.
The Governor's assertion that he
“expects two or three Republicans
to be lined up” to vote for his tax
bill is either wishful thinking or
should know that he will be very
fortunate if he can keep all of the
Senators of his own party “in line”
to support his tax measure.
‘And it would be right and proper
for any Democratic Senator to vote
against this bill in order to help
Governor Leader live up to his 1954
campaign pledge that, if elected,
there would be ‘no income tax, no
sales tax and millions of dollars in
savings through economies.”
All Republican members of the
Senate, in addition to several Demo-
cratic Senators, are opposed to the
House bill because they know their
constituents are thoroughly incensed
at the prospect of it being enacted.
1 am convinced that there is an
overwhelming sentiment against this
bill among the farmers and working
men and small business people of
my district. For that reason I will
join the solid bloc of Republicans—
and probably a few Democrats—to
vote against the Leader tax bill if
it ever reaches the Senate.
Four Companies
On Job At Fire
Marks Praises Fine
Spirit of Cooperation
Stuart Marks, president of Leh-
man Volunteer Fire Company wish-
es to thank Daniel C. Roberts, Henry
M. Laing and Shavertown Fire Com-
panies for their splendid coopera-
tion during the fire Saturday morn-
ing at the home of William Ide,
Idetown.
He was especially appreciative of
the work of Chief Thomas Garrity
of Daniel Roberts Company and of
Chief James Besecker of Dr. Henry
M. Laing Company.
The Shavertown Company was
delayed in reaching the scene be-
cause of incomplete instructions
from the person who called them.
“This proves once again,” Marks
said, “the importance of being
specific when giving the location of
a fire. Don’t let excitement get the
better of good judgment, give clear,
specific instructions and check with
the fire company before you hang
up.” : ;
The quick response of all com-
panies, Marks continued, made it
possible to save the property from
complete destruction. “The Back
Mountain Fire Association has
proved. its worth once more.”
“The speed with which all com-
panies reached the area, and the
larger number of firemen who turned
out so early in the morning, should
be sufficient proof to the residents
of Oak Hill that their homes will
be properly protected at all times,”
Marks said.
Chief Herbert Kemmerer estimat-
ed the damage to the Ide property
at approximately $4,000. The second
story was gutted and flames ate
their way through the roof.
The fire had a good start when
Lehman Firemen were summoned
around five o'clock, but they quickly
got the fire under control and called
other companies for assistance be-
fore their water ran low.
Shavertown, though late in arriv-
ing because of poor instructions, had
two pieces of equipment on hand—
one was its fine new pumper and
the other its tanker loaded with
1,500 gallons of water.
Bob Volker Returns From
Visiting Buddy's Mother
As has been their custom for a
number of years, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Volker, Shavertown, spent a
part of their summer vacation with
Mrs. Bradford Seager on her farm
in Michigan.
Bob was a comrade of Mrs.
Seager’s son Donald and was with
him when he was killed in action
during World War IL
Accompanying their parents on
the trip were Bobby, Donald and
David. They were amazed at the
seven and eight foot stalks of corn
they saw in southern Michigan
which had apparently had more
rain than Pennsylvania.
Andy Kozemchak, Overbrook
Road, looked out of his kitchen
door Tuesday afternoon just before
5 p.m. and found himself in posses-
sion of a cute little blonde boy he
had never seen before, rolling over
and over on the grass and kicking
his heels in glee while a collie dog
and a hound pup guarded their
little master. Andy did what most
people do, called the Dallas Post.
Little Douglas Johnson, two years
old, was a friendly child, but he
either didn’t know his name or had
no vocabulary. Blonde and chubby,
arrayed in green trunks, green socks
and white shoes, Douglas was a
picture without a title.
The Kozemchaks wracked their
brains for neighbors who might
have children of that age.
Paul Dymond? No, Paul was a
bit too young, and also he had red
hair. Nobody on Overbrook Road
had mislaid a little boy.
It was Mrs. Harold Elston who
recognized the dogs.
Those dogs, she said, belonged to
Albert Perrego.
It was as simple as that. Mr. and
Mrs. Archie Johnson had been min-
us a small boy for half an hour and
were about wild. Little Douglas,
Mr. Perrego’s grandson, had disap-
peared before, ambling down along
the line of deep woods and crossing
the sunny field. But nobody thought
he could travel such'a distance, and
the hill between the two houses
blotted out the view,
Andy said he'd be perfectly satis-
fied to keep Douglas.
Reptiles Seek /
Lowland Water
Many Rattlers Killed
Along Bowman's Creek
Prolonged drought has dried up
mountain springs and -streams
throughout the Back Mountain reg-
ion causing reptiles to leave their
rocky ledges and dens and seek
water in the lowlands.
During July, 123 rattlesnakes
were killed within a seven mile
radius of Noxen according to a
record compiled by Alan “Torchy”
Wilson of Noxen Inn.
+ The area over which most of the
snakes have been found extends
from Noxen to Evans Falls along
the northern side of Bowman's
Creek.
Occasionally rattlers have been
reported on the southern side of the
creek but this is a rarity. Rattlers
have been killed in the past along
the sunny cuts along the Lehigh
Valley Railroad right of way be-
tween Noxen and Harveys Lake. A
number this year have been killed
on the southern bank of Bowman's
near the Free Methodist Church
below Lutes Corners along Route
309.” :
Mrs. Paul Coolbaugh who oper-
ates the Back Mountain Market in
that vicinity says that at least 72
poisonous snakes have been killed
nearby. All of them this year.
Rev. A. L. Payne, pastor of Bow-
man’s Creek Free Methodist Church,
is responsible for the statement that
fifty have been dispatched between
Lutes Corners and Coppermine Hill
along Route 309. Some of his neigh-
bors have killed several, among
them Lawrence Dymond, 3; Floyd
Dymond, two; Harry Bigelow, two;
Raymond Blizard, two; Raymond
Coolbaugh, one; Gresham Hoyt, one.
Most of those killed are large
with a number of rattlers, indica-
ting an age of at least five to six
years.
On Tuesday evening Warren Ung-
er, Trucksville, killed a large rattler
at the cabin which he, Howard
Isaacs, Willard John and James
Oliver own above Stull.
Those who have a knowledge of
rattlesnakes say that there is only
one season when they will strike
without warning, that is during
“dog days” (August) when they are
partially blinded while shedding
their skin. It is then that they will
strike out in any direction at any
sound and without warning.
No snakes have been killed with-
in the limits of Noxen village but
a number have been killed on the
lower hillsides above the Armour
Leather Company plant.
Fred Schenck, Noxen Township
constable, verifies the statement
that some 74 rattlers have been kill-
ed in the vicinity since the dry
weather started.
During summers when there is
ample precipitation the snakes seld-
om leave the sunny mountain slopes
and there have been summer seas-
ons when no one reported killing
or seeing a rattler.
So Little Demand,
Druggists Seldom
Carry Venom Kits
So infrequent is the demand
for Snake Bite Kits that most
local druggists no longer carry
them. Hall's Pharmacy in Shav-
ertown, however, has them in
stock. The B & W Kit which
sells for $1.98 contains a blade
for cutting across the wound; a
tourniquet for stopping the flow
of tainted blood to the heart;
and a suction cup for removing
the venom. The kits contain ho
serum but do contain complet-
ed printed instructions on how
to apply First Aid for Snake
Bite. Mr. Hall added that the
demand for serum is so infre-
quent that it soon becomes out-
dated so that no local druggists
handle it. It is, however, read-
ily available for emergencies.
i
Drought Is Apt
To Close Big |
Noxen Tannery
Insufficient Water
In Bowman's Creek
To Carry Off Wastes
Unless there are heavy rains with-
in the next few days sufficient to
swell streams, the big Armour
Leather Company tannery at Noxen
will be forced to close because of
inability to get rid of its wastes.
The plant treats the wastes from
its tanning processes in a filtering
plant and then allows the affluent
to run off into Bowman’s Creek
which in normal seasons is able to
absorb them without damage to fish
life.
In recent years the periods of low
water have coincided with the tan-
nery employees’ vacations, so that
layoffs have been held to a mini-
mum.
This year, however, Bowman's
Creek is at an all-time low, and
the low period is several weeks
ahead of previous years. If the plant
closes, about 165 men will be thrown
out of work,
No hides have been put to soak
since July 11 and no more will be
put to soak until there are heavy
rains. Presently about 25 men have
been laid off, and those remaining
on duty are finishing off hides put
to soak before July 11. It will prob-
ably be another two weeks before
all of these are finished.
The fact that no hides are going
in, means no hides will be coming
out and the plant is therefore apt
to be closed for a considerable
length of time.
Within the past year the Armour
Company has purchased land from
Wilson Harding along Route 29 for
the construction of a new waste
treatment plant. It will permit the
tannery to operate on a year-round
schedule even during the periods of
drought.
When this work will be started
is not yet certain.
The tannery has ample supplies
of the finest fresh mountain water
for its tanning procseses, but it is
the absence of water in Bowman's
Creek that forces its frequent sum-
mer layoffs.
Irem Best Ball
Next Week End
Two Hundred Teams
Expected To Enter
The biggest golfing event of the
Irem season gets underway next
Friday, with qualifying rounds start-
ing for - the Best-Ball-Of-Partners
Invitational Tournament. It is esti-
mated over 200 teams will be ent-
ered with players coming in from
every golf club in this part of the
state. Spectators will witness some
of the areas top amateurs in action.
Dr. J. B. Marshall, tournament
chairman, has the maintenance
crews busily preparing for this
weekend tournament. Quantities of
water are being sprinkled on greens
to keep them in top playing con-
dition.
Qualifying rounds on Friday will
be followed by match play, accord-
ing to flights, on Saturday. On Sun-
day the winning teams will wind up
the even with 36 hole matches.
Awards will be presented to win-
ners in all flights following comple-
tion of play.
Entries should be mailed to Wil-
liam L. Evans, 49 Dana (Street,
Wilkes-Barre, chairman’of the tour-
nament committee, or contact made
with Ray Gettle, club pro.
ELMER WYANT
Elmer Wyant, former Noxen and
Lake Township young man who is
now Instructor of Science and as-
sistant coach at Mount Union High
School, Huntington County, is one
of thirty men in the United States
and Canada to receive a scholar-
ship grant of $250. from the Na-
tional Science Foundation for study
at Pennsylvania State University.
Wyant took his six-weeks courses
toward his Master's Degree this
summer in Pre-medical chemistry
and Nuclear Physics.
“Purpose of the Institute for High
School Science Teachers is to in-
crease the supply of scientists for
welfare, economy and defense of the
nation by promoting the education-
al advancement of Junior and Sen-
ior High School teachers.”
Wyant, son of Mr. and Mrs.
James Wyant, and a veteran of
World War II, received his educa-
tion at Bloomsburg State Teachers
College. His wife is the former
Polly Clossom of Bloomsburg. They
have a son Tyrone, aged 2.
Three Area Girls
Aspire To Crown
Rosemary Gildea
In Semi-Finals
Three girls from the Back Moun-
tain were in the line-up of candi-
dates for the title of Queen Antha-
cite Wednesday evening at Public
Square, Wilkes - Barre: Rosemary
Gildea, Trucksville; Margaret Louise
Belles, Noxen, and Marlene Cease,
Hunlocks Creek.
Rosemary Gildea, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George Bukeavitch, Trucks-
ville, was one of three bathing beau-
ties who survived the elimination
contest and will contend with many
others from various localities in the
Anthracite region at Lakewood
Park, August 18.
Rosemary, 19, is employed at
Pomeroy’s. i
Margaret Louise Belles, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Belles of
Noxen, was the Lake-Noxen May
Queen this year. She is the niece
of Robert Belles, supervising prin-
cipal.
Police To Inspect
Busses On August 19
Pennsylvania State Police will in-
spect school busses Friday, August
19, at Dallas-Franklin High School
between 9 A.M. and 4 P.M.
The Motor Vehicle Code provides
that the owner of every vehicle
which is to be used in the trans-
portation of school children shall
submit such vehicle to the State
Police to determine whether it con-
forms to the provisions of the law.
The Value Shop will have to fold
up if somebody does not come to
the rescue of the Dallas Womans
Club within the next two weeks.
Conducted on a volunteer basis, and
spending its entire net revenue, on
community service, the shop is not
able to pay rent.
‘What is needed is a large room,
or better still, two rooms, easily
reached from the street.
The shop is an outlet for good
used clothing, and provides oppor-
tunity for mothers of families to
outfit their children for a fraction
of the cost. Children’s clothing is
soon outgrown, and the initial out-
lay is high.
The Value [Shop gives mothers a
chance to increase the wardrobe at
a minimum.
The shop has been gaining in pop-
ular appeal during its two and a
half years of operation. Manned by
club members, it caters to every-
body, young and old. Members take
pride in buying suits and dresses,
wearing them to club meetings and
exhibiting them.
Revenue goes to the Library and
to welfare work.
Outgrowing the small room at the
rear of the Library Annex within
a few months, the shop opened in
the fall of 1953 on the second floor
of Senator A. J. Sordoni’s building
on Church Street, above the Harveys
Lake Electric Light Company. There
was no charge for occupancy nor
for light and heat, Mr. Sordoni ab-
sorbing this cost.
Now the space is needed for ex-
pansion, and the shop must move
or be discontinued.
What is needed is for some far-
sighted merchant to realize the
value of good-will which he could
engender in the community if he
offered waste space for this worth-
while venture,
‘Who has a spot for the shop? It
is open only on Fridays, one day
a week.
Call The Dallas Post, or Mrs.
Harris Haycox, club president.
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So
Kindergarten To
Expand To Three
Rooms In Dallas
Bus Service To
Be Offered To
Distant Children
Opening of a third kindergarten
room and employment of a third
kindergarten teacher for the Dallas
Borough-Kingston Township school
jointure, was proposed by John
Wardell, kindergarten chairman, at
Monday night’s meeting of the joint
board. Study of Shavertown and
Trucksville facilities, with an eye
to locating kindergartens in those
buildings, shows that those elemen-
tary schools need the extra space
and would be cramped if the rooms
were occupied by classes.
James Martin, supervising princi-
pal, in accepting the report, said
that if twenty tuition pupils were
accommodated, the plan could go
through, and a second floor room
converted from its present storage
capacity to kindergarten use. ”
Mr. Wardell contacted Harrisburg
to see if bus service for Borough
children living at some distance
could be provided, but was met with
flat refusal to go along on reim-
bursement. Children from Kingston
Township, however, would rate bus
service and reimbursement would
be forthcoming. The farthest a Bor-
ough child could conceivably walk
would be 1.9 miles, and no children
of kindergarten age live at this
point,
Mr. Martin said that it was of
vital importance that the benefits
of kindergarten be denied to no
child in the jointure. A number of
children have been prevented here-
tofore from attending because of
distance, and: because the $5 per
month charged for bus service for
each child made enrollment prohib-
itive in some cases.
Resignations
Theodore Laskowski, Trucksville
sixth grade teacher, tendered his
resignation. Z
Mrs. Louise McQuilkin, fifth
teacher at Dallas Borough e!
tary who has moved to Philadel,
area, made her resignation official
in writing, though she had apprised
the Board of her intentions early
last January.
Three duly elected faculty mem-
bers have yet to sign their contracts
before their connection can be
deemed official.
Miss Jennie Hill, R.N. daughter of
the late Bert Hill, Florist, will fill
the position of full time school
nurse,
Property Committee
Purchase of thirty-six desks from
American Seating Company was
authorized. The type selected by
vote of the board after inspection
of the five samples on display, was
a plastic-topped model with adjust-
able sloping lid and attached chair
mounted on a swivel, The height
and relative position of desk and
chair are adjustable, the construc-
tion sturdy. Cost per unit is $29.80.
W. Frank Trimble, high school
principal, was authorized to make
the best possible deal on trading in
fifteen out-moded typewriters and
purchase of fifteen new ones for the
commercial room. Bids were opened
from Royal, Smith-Corona, Reming-
ton-Rand, and Underwood.
Carl Steele, Kingston, was the
successful bidder for a two-coat
paint job on the exterior of the
kindergarten building, contracting
for it for $726, including porch
floors and ceilings and all metal
work. The amount allowed in the
budget, $2,000, will defray cost of
a number of other necessary repairs,
including replacement of an eighty-
gallon hot water tank at Dallas Bor-
ough, and erection of a fence be-'
tween the Trucksville Grade School
and the Gregory property next door.
Necessary grading there has already
been done, to prepare the location.
Miscellaneous
Dr. Malcolm Borthwick was re-
appointed school doctor.
The regular increment for teach-
ers, set by Harrisburg, was voted.
Bills were ordered paid, and the
treasurer’s report read.
Harry Ohlman presented the case
of the Senior Womans Club Value
Shop, which must abandon its con-
tribution to the community if it
cannot find a location within the
next few weeks. Speaking for the
Womans Club, which has combed
every possibility in the area, he
asked if a room on the second floor
of the kindergarten building could
not be used on Fridays. The prop-
osition was deemed not feasible be-
cause of an earlier decision to en-
large the kindergarten by use of the
second floor.
Present were: D. T. Scott, presi-
dent; Eleanor Jones, secretary; Lew-
is LeGrand, Dr. Robert Bodycomb,
Charles Mannear, James Hutchison,
William Clewell, John Wardell, L.
L. Richardson, Harry Ohlman, James
Martin, Charles James. Visitors
were W. Frank Trimble and C. L.
Myers, bus contractor.