meer re mn Oldest Business Institution In 1 The Back Mountain Two Easy to Remember Phone Numbers - 4-5656 or 4-7676 36, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955 * Clyde Casterline, 57, Noxen, vic- tim of a rear end collision on the Tunkhannock highway late Satur- day night, will be buried this after- noon in Woodlawn Cemetery, fol- lowing services conducted from the Nulton Funeral Home by Rev. David R. Morgan of Parrish Street Metho- dist Church, and Rev. Henry C. Kraft, pastor of St. Luke’s Lutheran, Noxen. Mr. Casterline died Tuesday mornning at 10:45 at Nesbitt Hos- pital, two days after admission. Norti Berti, made him sit quietly in the car after the crash, though he was anxious to get out. Berti took his pulse, reported it as strong, but noticed that he was coughing blood. He died of internal injuries sustained when his chest struck the instrument panel and caved it in at the moment of impact. Mr. Casterline was a passenger in a car operated by Richard Engle- man, 1, of Noxen, who ‘is being charged with involuntary man- slaughter. The car overtook another car parked on the highway, and skidded into it at high speed after brakes were applied, sending four people to the hospital. George Coolbaugh, 25, and his wife Audrey, 18, of Trucksville R. D. 1, in the parked car, were both admitted to Nesbitt with body bruis- es and injuries to chest and legs. Mr. Engelman sustained injuries of the kneecap and lacerations about the face. Two other passengers whose names are being withheld by the investigating officer James Gansel, were taken away in a passing car before ambulances and officers ar- rived. The car which Coolbaugh was driving was borrowed from Clyde Campbell, Harveys Lake. Reports in- dicate that it paused on the highway while a squabble as to who should drive it was being settled. It was rammed on a section of hilly road between Dallas Outdoor Theatre and Sam’ Green's Restaurant, with great damage to both cars. Engelman was taken to Kingston in the Harveys Lake ambulance; Casterline in the Kingston Township ambulance; Coolbaugh in Dallas Community ambulance; Mrs. Cool- baugh in a private car. Mr. Casterline, an employe of the Armour Tannery in Noxen for forty- one years, was a native and life- long resident of Noxen, son of the late Stewart and Mary Saxe (Cas- terline. His wife, the late Lucretia Sickler Casterline, died two years ago. He is survived by four brothers: Albert and Russell, Noxen; Stewart, Trucksville; and Paul, Luzerne; a sister, Mrs. Fred Smith, Kunkle; and several nieces and nephews, Pikes Creek Man Hurt At Lehighton ~ Walter Paul, of Pikes Creek, was injured : Thursday morning in en accident in Lehighton, according to a message received by his wife, Justice of the Peace at Pikes Creek, The Bronson Ambulance left at 11 to transport him from Lehighton to the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. No details were available, as Mrs. Paul accompanied the ambulance. Mr. Paul is employed in construction work on the new Turnpike. Drilling New Well Creswell Drilling Company is down 200 “feet on the new well being drilled for Natona Mills and has not yet struck a vein of water. FROM. on the calendar, “Boy, you should have seen the chase,” I said to Tom. “Drunks or crazy, or maybe just wanted a rear- end collision. Most of the way up from Ricketts Glen, and if I'd re- duced speed I'd have been rammed.” Just then the phone rang, and the voice at the other end spoke in firm accents: “How would you have felt,” said the phone, “if I had been thrown out into the ditch on that curve and maybe killed 7” “It all depends on who you are. If you are the drunk who chased me all the way in from Ricketts Glen, I'd enjoy writing a first class obituary for you. Name, please?” “My husband is a good driver. If he hadn’t been, we'd all have been killed.” “That's for sure. He'd have to be a good driver to hold the road at sixty-five miles per hour. But he was either crazy or sozzled.” The voice went on, protesting that it was necessary to catch up in order to find out who it was who had passed too close. Mental reconstruction took place. A driver had speeded up just as my car passed. Quite possible that the subsequent cut-in had under those circumstances been too close, though the lights showed in the rear-vision mirror before the maneu- ver was completed. It was shortly after this that the close-set eyes had appeared, obviously with no inten- tion of passing, but with intent to crowd the driver using the high beam to make a glaring reflection How was I to know that he was filled with righteous indignation in- stead of a dozen bottles of beer ? “Better tell me who's talking.” “Now just don’t you bother about who s talking. I'm not going to give my name. I recognized you at the “Well, I sure wish I'd known it was a neighbor when that chase be- gan, and not a bunch of yahoos out to pester a woman driving alone at midnight on a lonely mountain road. Under those circumstances you pour on the gas and you don’t stop for anything.” There had been only two places where a stop would have been pos- sible. An all-night gas station, passed before there could be a safe turn-out, and Pikes Creek, where there is a restaurant. But there again the speed was too great to make it practical, and it was a mercy - that there was nothing in sight on the [Sweet Valley road. “What did you say your name was? Anonymous communications by phone or letter don’t have too much standing.” Me, I'm not ashamed of my name. I'm going to have it lettered on the back of the car with address and telephone number so that com- plaints may be registered without pursuit up hill and down dale over a road that resembles a roller coast- er, with two cars and three people endangered. Pursuit at night means just three things: A. The driver is drunk and hav- ing himself some fun. B. The driver is one of those who cannot bear to be passed. iC. The driver wants to lift your pocketbook. “I never saw such reckless driv- ing in my life. I'M GLAD to know how you drive,” and bing went the receiver. We couldn’t be more in accord, one hundred percent in agreement. For the night before Labor Day, it was probably the silliest exhibition —and the most dangerous—ever staged on that bit of road. Any driver who feels he has had a narrow squeak, and who then proceeds to engineer a whole series of narrow squeaks, needs to have his head examined. Better to lick the wounds quietly than to promote headlines on the front page such as, “Driver Satisfies Personal Peeve, Three People Go To Morgue.” (And if this doesn’t smoke out that name, nothing ever will.) Big Enrollment At Schools In Back Mountain Children Flock On Playgrounds And Classrooms Public schools in the Back Moun- tain opened on Wednesday, with more pupils expected when parents return from summer vacations. In- complete figures show a total of 3,802 pupils going to school in the area. The trend seems to be tqward larger registrations, Dallas Borough- Kingston Township leading with a total of 1164. With no polluted water situation to face, schools were not delayed in opening as many were in the Scranton-Wilkes- Barre area. Dallas Borough - Kingston Town- ship registered 132 in kindergarten, 628 in elementary, and 404 in high school. Kindergarten morning ses- sions will have 67 children, after- noon classes 65, divided into three sections each. First grade has 109 in the three elementary schools, Dallas, Shavertown and Trucksville. There are 98 in second grade; 133 in third; 104 in fourth; 80 in fifth; 104 in the sixth. At Westmoreland, seventh grade has a registration of 74; eighth, 76; ninth, 70; tenth, 56; eleventh, 65; and twelfth, 63. Dallas-Franklin-Monroe At Dallas-Franklin-Monroe Town- ship joint schools, total enrollment is 803, with 378 elementary pupils in the main building, 133 in grades one to six at Monroe. Enrollment in the grades is smaller than last year when it totalled 411 at the main building, but high school reg- istration is higher, 425 as against 341. There are three sections of grades one to three, two sections in all other grades. There are 68 pupils in the first grade; 74 in second; 71 in third; 73 in fourth; 48 in fifth; 57 in sixth; 72 in seventh; 75 in eighth; 69 in ninth; 75 in tenth; 63' in eleventh; 48 in twelfth. At Monroe, junior high school students number 70. Senior high school students attend the main school. Junior high classes; 7, 8, and 9, attend the main school one day a week, adding up to eighteen classroom hours to be worked into the schedule. Gate of Heaven Gate of Heaven parochial school has a registration of 223 boys and 209 girls, a total of 432. There are 75 children in first grade; 76 in second; 72 in third; 58 in fourth; 46 in fifth; 40 in sixth; 30 in sev- enth; 35 in eighth, a gain all along the line. Last year’s first grade had an enrollment of 70, and the eighth grade only 21. This year’s fifth graders are the children who started as first grade pupils when Lake-Noxen = Lake-Noxen, with an enrollment of 568, notes fewer in the first grade, a few more in high school than last year. Noxen and Lake first grades combined. total 45. There are 69 students in second grade; 62 in third; 56 in fourth; 58 in fifth; 46 in sixth; 40 in sev- enth; 60 in eighth; 44 in ninth; 43 in tenth; 48> in eleventh; 42 in twelfth. Lehman-Jackson-Ross Lehman-Jackson-Ross enrollment is down, due to withdrawals of Jackson Township children whose parents have sold their farms to the State for acreage needed for the proposed mental delinquent in- stitution. It is 835 this year, was 878 in 1954-1955. The main school at Lehman has 683 students, Ross Elementary School 152. Two sections of first grade at Lehman have 23 pupils each, 18 at Ross; second grade, two (Continued on Page Five) Wyoming Valley Community Con- cert’'s 23d season will bring to Wilkes-Barre a grand opera star, a famous violinist, twin pianists, and a leading symphony orchestra. Carroll Glenn, violinist, will pre- sent a program November 2. Rise Stevens, mezzo - soprano from the Metropolitan Opera Company, will appear December 7. Ernest and Miles Mauney, pianists, will present a varied program January 26. Pitts- burgh Symphony Orchestra will close the season March 14, 1956. Mrs. Ray Turner, president of the Concert Association, points out a current trend in the field of music. American-born artists are predom- inant, in contrast to foreign-born in earlier years. Miss Stevens was born in New York; Ernest and Miles Mauny, in \} South Carolina; and the concert- meister of the Pittsburgh orchestra, Samuel Thaviu, in Chicago. Carroll Glenn is a lineal descen- dant of the Charles Carroll of Car- rolton who signed the Declaration of Independence. Her husband is the famous pianist, Eugene List. The Pittsburgh Symphony is com- posed of ninety musicians under direction of William Steinberger, who in 1936 founded and conduct- ed the first symphony orchestra in Palestine. Guest artist of Arturo Toscanini over NBC in 1938, he has since been guest conductor of most of the famous orchestras of the country. The Mauny brothers, identical twins, carry their close relationship into a completely unified perform- ance. Their rise to eminence in the concert field has been meteoric in the past few years. A Story Without Words wr. Monka Remains In Plaster Cast Custodian Fell From Ladder On Friday Stephen Monka, custodian at Dallas Borough elementary school building, remains at Nesbitt Mem- orial Hospital in a cast reaching from thighs to chest, as a result of injuries received on Friday when he fell twenty feet as a ladder broke under his weight. He is walk- ing about and suffering no pain. The cast was ordered by Dr. B. F. Griffith, following X-Rays which indicated slight abnormality of two vertebrae, Dr. A. A. Masosli who examined Monka after he had fallen and ordered transfer to. the hospital in Dallas Community Ambulance, en- tered the hospital himself for sur- gery the following day, and has seen his patient only briefly since. Dr. Griffith took over at his re- quest. 5 Mr. Monka was calking cracks high on the Franklin Street side of the main school building when a side rail of the lower half of the ladder gave way. Mrs. Monka re- ports that her husband thinks he fell on his back, the fall partially broken by an outflung arm. He insisted upon getting up and walk- ing away, but was restrained. Rev. Olver Again Superintendent Sproule, Dimmick Payne, Returned Rev. Herbert D. Olver was re- elected superintendent of the Wilkes-Barre District at the 82nd conference of the New York area, Dallas Free Methodist Camp grounds last week. Rev. Olver, Trucksville, holds his office for the eighth con- secutive year. Rev. Joseph Sproule was returned to the Dallas Free Methodist Church, and Rev. Dana F. Dimmick to Trucksville. Rev. Martin Sweezey goes to Outlet. Rev. A. L. Payne remains at Bowmans Creek. Rev. Russell Vanderhoff for the second years goes to the Wilkes-Barre Free Methodist Church. Ann |. Davies Estate Left To Nephews Ann J. Davies, Dallas, left a nephews, John E. Leach, Orchard Park, N. Y., Frederick W. Jennings, Dallas; Maurice J. Jennings, Bur- lington, N. J.,, and W. Paul Jen- nings. Reading, according to a will probated at the courthouse yester- day. The will, dated August 8, 1955, names nephew, Frederick W. Jen- nings, 41 Norton Avenue, Dallas, executor. Testatrix died August 28 at the age of 70. Personal property is valued at $5,000. Real estate at 18 Norton Avenue, Dallas, is valued at $10,000. Start Resurfacing Work Cole Brothers of Meshoppen who have the contract for resurfacing Route 309 from Hillside to Caspers have started work replacing some of the base concrete preparatory to applying the asphalt surface. Stookey Has Good Use Of Neck Hurt Nine Years Ago Charles Stookey, 60, Parrish Street, a hunting companion of Alva Eggleston, recollects that nine years ago he spent seven months recovering from a brok- en neck, incurred in an accid- ent similar to that of Mr. Eggleston. He, too, was up in an apple tree when he crashed to the ground. He is completely recovered, though his neck lacks a little side to side motion. Flat on his back in traction for three months, and equipped ‘with a stout collar to inhibit motion for seven, he returned to his work as cableman with the Bell Telephone Company still wearing the brace. The late Dr. G. L. Howell of Trucksville « was his physician. Mr. Eggleston, Vernon apple grower, was injured August 22 when an apple limb gave way. He crashed to the ground with a broken neck, and is still in traction at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. Typhoid Rumor Is Unfounded Ambulance Back In Circulation A widespread rumor that there might be a case of typhoid in the area was proved groundless when Dr. Malcolm Borthwick stated on Thursday morning that tests had proved negative and that Anthony Christ, Franklin Street, Shaver- Mr. Christ was taken in the Kingston Township ambulance to General Hospital at 3:45 Tuesday afternoon, Marvin Yeust and Tho- mas Morgan driving, Arnold Yeust in the rear with the patient, who ‘was suffering symptoms similar to those of typhoid. Members of the crew were assured by Dr. Borth- wick that in case of necessity, they would all be given innoculations to prevent contraction of the disease, should the diagnosis prove it to be typhoid. Upon return from the hospital the crew sanitized the ambulance and took precautions for their own safety, then immobilized the am- bulance while awaiting a report. It was released for operation Thurs- day morning. was alerted to take calls from King- (Continued on Page Five) Ball Of Fire Over Huntsville Seen Tuesday Night At 9 By Residents A flaming ball of fire trailing a long blue streamer of ignited gas was “sighted over Huntsville Reser- voir Tuesday night at around 9 p.m. Hanford Eckman and Ernest Barnes, Huntsville residents, both saw the phenomenon, which was at Tirst believed to be a burning plane until it kept its course from West to East without deviation or faltering. Mr. Eckman sfays it was moving at great speed, and apparently very high. at Red Rock revealed no planes in distress and no report on a fire ball. Harveys Lake Observation Post, fully manned and alert, saw no fire-ball. The fire tower on the time. If anybody else saw the celestial visitor, get in touch with the Dallas Post for a comparison of observa- tions. It sounds like a very large meteor. Most meteors are frag- ments, burning almost instantly when penetrating the earth’s at- mosphere from outer space. Annex Will Be Ready For Use Wednesday Dallas - Franklin - Monroe high school students expect to be able to use the new annex on Wednes- day. Raymond Kuhnert, supervis- ing principal, explains that moving of classroom furniture to the home rooms will be simple as soon as three layers of wax are used on the ment will be moved from its stor- age place in the gymnasium. Seniors and sophomores will - be housed in the home rooms. Juniors were originally scheduled to accom- pany the seniors, but relative size of classes controlled arrangements. The extra room in the basement of the main building will remain in use, admission of forty-six high school students from Monroe dicta- ting this decision. Sheep Field Day Saturday At Tunkhannock NEPA The Sixth Annual Sheep Field Day will be held tomorrow on the NEPA grounds in Tunkhannock. Animals to be shown must be on the grounds by 9:30 a.m. The pro- gram starts at 10 a.m. Local sheep- men are invited to exhibit. William Amos, formerly of De- munds Road, for the past three years a guest at the Sutton Home in Wilkes-Barre, will appear on the “Life Begins at Eighty” television show Sunday night at 9:30. He will stay at the Hotel Astor Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Mr. Amos, dignified and scholar- ly at nearly ninety years of age, doubts his ability to cut loose and wise-crack as so many of the mem- bers of the panel do. That, he says, takes a certain gayety and insou- ciance which he feels he lacks. He is in two minds about appearing on the panel as a fixture, rather than as an occasional guest. But, he says, it will be an ex- perience worth having, and it gives him a chance to visit old haunts in New York and renew acquaintance with former friends. He is looking forward to the bus trip today, hop- ing to see some of the ravages of the recent flood. It is the first time he has ever travelled by bus, but he hears that the Martz coaches are comfortable and that they run through unmatched scenery on the way through the mountains. Give Mr. Amos a big hand over the only local man who has ever appeared on this program. Dallas Demands Construction Of Sidewalks Council Asks Smith To Take Necessary Steps To Get Action Dallas Borough Council at its meeting Tuesday night instructed its solicitor Atty. Roscoe B. Smith to inform property owners on lower Church Street and lower Machell Avenue that they must install side- walks or the work will be done by Borough employed contractors and properties. Council some months ago passed a resolution and informed property owners that they would have to build sidewalks, but the property owners refused to do anything about it. Now Council plans to take the necessary action to have the walks constructed. Dallas Branch of Miners National Bank will also be asked to build a sidewalk along its newly acquired property on Memorial Highway from Kuehn's Drug Store to Wil- liams Funeral Home. This will create another link in a safe thor- oughfare for pedestrians from Main Street to Gate of Heaven School. The Treasurer’s. Report showed a balance of $13,405.30 after receipts during August of $14,175.35 from Tax Collector Arthur Dungey and expenditures of $5,472.35. Other receipts included $20 in traffic fines from Burgess H. A. Smith; $5. in fines from Officer Alvin Shafer; $3.50 from sale of junk; $100. rent from State Liquor Control Board; $56.50 rent from James Wertman; $214.71 taxes from Luzerne County Treasurer and $450 from State Liquor Control Board representing return from license fees as follows: $50. from American Legion, $200. from Robert Hislop and $200. from Herbert Lundy. Expenditures included repayment each to Dallas Branch of Miners National Bank, leaving $2,000 on short term notes yet to be pa These short terms, sabligations 1 incurred to meet opers current tax duplicate began to come in, The in the State wotos tax fund was reported as $686.72, a sum of $614.96 having come from the State during August. Building permits amounting to $27,330 were approved. They in- cluded two new structures, a $10,- 000 home for Frank Nimen on Luzerne Avenue; and a $19,500 Esso Gasoline Service Station for’ Clyde Birth on Memorial Highway below the Triangle. Other permits were for repairs and improvements: Robert Brown $195; Theodore New- comb $100; Elizabeth Temple $900, and Ralph Dixon $142. Council instructed the building committee to get estimates for re- pairs to porch, roof and coping of its main building and repairs to the roof of one of its out buildings. It also instructed the street com- mittee to look into the various types and prices of ash spreaders for the Street Department. Street Commissioner Ralph Eip- per and Engineer Jack Jeter were delegated to attend the first annual street workers clinic at Wilkes Col- lege on September 28. A contribution of $60, an in- crease of $10 over last year, was voted to West Side Visiting Nurse Association. Eight new “stop” signs and eight new “Watch Children” street signs were ordered for the Police Depart- ment. Payment was made for two luminous capes which will be used by the Police Department during direction of traffic at night. The Secretary reported that only one property owner, Joseph Wallo, had submitted a report of the per- iods when his home was without water during the month of August. Council in paid advertisements had asked all property owners to coop- erate in its efforts to obtain a bet- ter water supply by sending ‘in monthly reports of periods when they were without water. It was also reported that the State Department of Health is in- vestigating the nasty sewage con- dition on Lake Street in the vicin- ity of the Acme Market. It was voted to continue Daylight Savings time until October 29 when all Wyoming Valley communities will return to Standard time. The Secretary was instructed to write a letter of thanks to Prince of Peace Church for its cooperation in bearing a large part of the ex- pense of paving along lower Main Street in front of its property. It was brought out that cost of resurfacing and paving Sunset, Lincoln, Berndale, Parrish and Leh- man Avenue was $2,620. All councilmen were present with the exception of Warden Kunkle and John Sheehan.
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