Oldest Business Institution In The Back Mountain VOL. 65, No. 42, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1955 Eighth Annual Community Con- cert tonight promises to provide an evening of top entertainment and bring out the best talent residing in Back Mountain communities. In addition to fine music, those who attend will lend their encourage- ment to a number of youthful artists who will make their first appearance in public. Tonight's program in Westmore- land High School Auditorium will have many features for the enjoy- ment of the music lovers and com- munity-minded citizens who at- tend. Each year the popularity of this cultural festival of music in- creases. While the first half of the pro- gram will be devoted chiefly to youthful artists, the second half who have already made a name in the musical world. Among those who will participate are Lehman - Jackson - Ross Joint School Band, Regina Klein, Mrs. Marjory Weiss, Donald A. Ander- Oldest Church In New Addition On The oldest church and the oldest established organization ‘ in the Back Mountain marked its 112th anniversary on Sunday, when Huntsville (Christian Church dedicat- ed its new educational rooms at the morning service. Rev. Edward J. Bruce of Pittsburgh, State director of religious education, spoke, and remained for the fellowship supper Monday night and a meeting of the Christian Friendly Class on Tuesday. Rev. C. H. Frick, in conducting visitors through the five new class- rooms, choirroom, nursery and the sound proof auditorium for mothers of young children, explained that much work remains to be done be- fore most of the huge space can be put into actual use. The mother’s auditorium, separated from the sanctuary by broad expanses of plate glass and equipped with a pub- lic address system, is already in use, * . Rev. and Mrs. Frick held open house for congregation and friends Sunday afternoon in the parsonage. Elder William D. Lane, pastor of Plymouth Christian Church, found- ed Huntsville Christian Church Oc- tober 15, 1843, specifying that there should be a congregational meeting once a year to discuss matters of business and policy. Truman Ather- grant, gave land and timbers for the original quaint structure, now obscured by remodelling, resurfac- ing, and additions. Mr. Atherton’s name appears first on the list of members. A niche in the church office, con- structed of some of the original heavy timber material rescued when walls were torn out, will con- tain mementoes, with Elder Lane’s picture in the center. Rev. Frick son, Jr., Sandra Chere, Peggie Perk- ins, Vernalee Pritchard, Larry J. Carpenter, Brenda Clause, William Roberts, Keith Yeisley, William Winter, Dallas Women’s Club Chor- ale, Mary Jo Williams, William H. Burnaford, Ruth Turn Reynolds, Charles S. Nicol, Jr., Atty. William A. Valentine. Accompanists will be Sarah Reese Ferguson, Prof. Alfred Milliner Camp, Roberta Williams, Ruth Turn Reynolds, Mrs. William Baker, Sr. Mrs. William H. Burnaford, Regina Klein, and Louie Weigand Ayre. The Lehman - Jackson - Ross Joint Band will be under the direction of Prof. Bernard J. Gerrity, and the Dallas Woman's Club Chorale will be directed by Mrs. Norman F. Patton. The auditorium will be open at 7:30 and the, program will start promptly at 8. Many talented art- ists had to be eliminated this year in order to keep the program with- |in the two-hour limit. Tickets will Ibe on sale at the door. Area Dedicates 112th Birthday ELDER WILLIAM LANE A plans to include mortise and tenon features, and some of the original wooden pegs used in framing the building. The early communion set, a modest pitcher with a pair of goblets, will be on display as a link with the past. Its use once a year to maintain tradition has been sug- gested. Gra-Y Club Forming The Back Mountain YMCA’s [Shavertown Gra-Y Club is organiz- ing and meeting weekly on Tues- day afternoon at 4 at the ‘Y’ build- ing in Shavertown. Jim Eckerd is the Club Counselor. FROM. Usd parking spots are under a tangled mass of branches, and the rocky road occasionally used by picnic parties is completély blocked. And just as well, as the mortality on springs and dented gasoline tanks of lower-slung models has been terrific. It was the giants of the forest that crashed, indicating that the gusts swirled along over the tops of the lower growth. The creek it- self, fed by mountain streams, was still in heavy freshet Sunday morn- ing, with swollen water dashing across the top of the rocky ledge where divers congrogats on sunny summer days. Checking with AL Shook, one-time principal of Dallas Bor- ough School and owner for the past twenty-eight years of a general store in Noxen, brought out some interesting past history on the ram- pages of Bowman’s Creek. Friday and Saturday's freshet, he said, was not much of a flood after all, reaching to a point eighteen inches beneath the bridge in the heart of Noxen. That bridge was swept away by flood waters during a former flood. The Buckwheat Flood is a matter of history. Farmers had planted their buckwheat somewhat late, but it was making good headway when the creek rose and covered | the flats, sweeping all the buck- wheat before it in a surprise flood that followed a cloudburst up in the mountains. Bowmans Creek, said Mr. Shook with pride, is completely incalcul- able. Other areas flood, and Bow- mans Creek goes placidly along in its own stream bed. The big Valley flood of 1936 left Bowmans Creek untouched, while snows on lower levels melted and added their dev- astating freight of angry water to the raging Susquehanna. And on the other hand, Bowmans Creek came within a foot of the bottons- 6f the bridge near Noxen Methodist Church in August at the time of the Stroudsburg area dis- aster, while the Susquehanna flow- ed smoothly and far below flood stage. Asked if the cyclone damaged Noxen-proper at all, Mr. Shook said a few trees had been blown down, among them a maple which fell against the house on the Charles Womer property on Island Road, a willow in John Byrne's yard, and a tree which fell on the roof of the Lewis Blizard home on Main Street. No other area was damaged to the extent of the small strip along Bowmans Creek. Cyclones dip down briefly and roar off again into the upper air, and apparently there is no predicting their course. St. Paul's Will Break Ground For Addition Sunday Construction Is Expected To Get Underway At Once St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, of Shavertown, will break ground for an extensive addition Sunday morn- ing, as a feature of the morning worship service. Rev. Frederick Eidam, pastor, will turn the first sod. Plans drawn up by Robert Eyer- man call for a seventeen-foot ad- dition to the length of the present structure, with a one story twenty- six foot addition beyond to house primary Sunday School classes and an assembly room. Off to the side there will be a two-story ell, thirty- two by thirty feet. Construction will match the present building, stucco over concrete. The additions will add space enough for eleven class- rooms, several multi-purpose rooms, and a church office. The congregation voted a build- ing budget not to exceed $48,000. Already on hand is $13,000 building fund. A church mortgage for the remainder will be paid off within eight years. A. O. Yocum has the general con- tract for approximately $33,000; Harold Ash for plumbing and heat- ing, $7,000. Ground-breaking occurs practical- ly on the anniversary of the grant- ing of the first charter thirty years ago, October 25, 1925, when twenty- nine charter members pledged their homes to finance their church. Lake-Noxen Has Dutch Display Students Decorate For State Week All rooms in Lake-Noxen schools participated in’ the celebration of. Pennsylrania Week, October 9 to 14, using a Pennsylvania Dutch theme for their exhibits, and de- veloping Pennsylvania Dutch deli- cacies in the Home-Making Depart- ment. Harveys Lake Womans Serv- ice Club contributed toward the prizes. Prize winners from Lake are: Teddy Higgins and Kay Whitesell, second grade; Anne Mae Sites and Marguerite Shaver, third grade; James Worth and Sharon Strzel- czyk, fourth; Ruth Martin, Eunice Oney, Ruth Zorzi, Eileen Crane and Irene Wolfe, fifth; Larry Carpenter and Diane Gregg, sixth; Michael Zorzi, Grover Anderson and George Nichols, seventh; Judy Evans and Sara Patton, Alan Hobbs, Don Kocher, Allen Swanson, ninth; Har- old Blizzard, Robert Turner and Frank Jones, tenth grade. From Noxen Grade School: James Gillis, Christine Sevenski, Stanley Scott and Tommy Xeiper, first grade; Billy Price, Mildred Case, Lee Bennett, Roland Teetsel, sec- ond grade; Karlene Jones, Joseph Halowich, Marlene Patton, and George Patton, third; Larry Peder- son, fourth; Edward Hollus and Mark Dendler, fifth; Beverly Lord Kovolick and Jacqueline Ruff, sev- enth; Charles Kovolick and Verna Smith, eighth. Prizes for Pennsylvania Dutch dishes went to Margaret Gensel, Sandra Loomis, Joan Titus, Annette Shalata, Ruth Galka, Helen Pilosi, from Lake; Wilma Lyons, Carol Ben- nett and Patricia Newell, from Noxen. Township Band To Lead Parade Herman Kern To Conduct Singing Dallas-Franklin-Monroe Township will lead the annual Back Mountain Hallowe’en Parade Monday, Octo- ber 31. The parade will form at the Commonwealth Telephone Building on Lake Street at 7 p.m. and pro- ceed past Dallas Borough building, up Main to Mill Street, to the left on Mill to the State Highway, again left on the highway to traffic inter- section, and complete the circuit by once more passing the Borough Building and judges stand. Judges will select those marchers eligible for prize competition, and decide first, second, third and classifications, among them funni- est, most original, prettiest, best dressed, best groups, and special- Herman Kern will again lead Frank Pavlick, Bobeck, EIGHT CENTS junior vice - commander; Louis Joseph Hudak, senior —Photo by Kozemchak Charter Members Charter members of the recently formed Eighty-Plus Club at the Dal- las Post are: Mrs. Amanda Yaple, Dallas, 89-year-old; Mrs. William Cairl, Woodlawn Drive, 86; William Amos, formerly of Upper Demunds Road, now of Sutton Home, 89; Mrs. James Ide, Lehman, 89; Fred Elston, Lehman, 87; Albert Holcomb, Sweet Valley, 86; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Sweet Valley, 92; Mrs. Ella Jumper, East Dallas, 86; Edmund T. Line, Dallas, 89; Mrs. Ida Wilcox, Trucks- ville R. D., 82; Mrs. Raymond Car- lin, Sr., East Dallas, 82; Mr. and Mrs. George Higgins, Idetown, both 82. Admitting to past eighty, but not saying how much, are: Minnie Ben- scoter, Trucksville; Nancy Searfoss; East Dallas! Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Gal- lup, Hunlecks Creek. "This is a club with a unique ‘con- stitution: No dues, no meetings, no obligations. The only requirement is that the applicant be over eighty, live in the Back Mountain, and en- joy having a personal copy of The Dallas Post instead of having to wait until the family finishes reading it. To the one or two thrifty souls who have suggested that Granny's copy might well take the place of the family copy, the answer is thumbs down. But oldsters who have never had a subscription may get aboard the band-wagon, and the family may enjoy it after Granny gets through with it. There are some vital statistics which will be helpful. Dates and places of birth should go on the special Eighty-Plus Club record applicant has lived in the area, and anything else that might be of in- terest. Cards of those over 85 carry a star. Those over 90, carry two stars. Up to date, there is only one card with two’ stars on it, Mrs. Eliza- beth Smith’s, of Sweet Valley. Mr. Amos will get two stars, come Jan- uary 12. A sprinkling of names of oldsters keeps coming into the office, and more names are expected as folks catch up with page 6 of the October Sign Up For Charter Member MRS. AMANDA YAPLE 7 issue of The Dallas Post. There are a number of people over ninety in the community, some of them in exceptionally good health. There is one out in Noxen who ought to send in her name, and one in Huntsville who must be about ready for two stars. Let's have those names. Our bet is that there are a hundred people in the Back Mountain over eighty years of age. Maybe more. John Johnson Plays In Backfield At Florida John Johnson, a former football player at Westmoreland, is playing right halfback for the University of Florida. John, who left West- moreland High School in his junior year, when his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson, left Shavertown for Schuylkill Haven, played also on the undefeated 1954 Schuylkill Squier, board; kneeling: Franklin-Noxen. Ambulance Runs To Philadelphia First Long Trip To Pick Up Ferry Dallas Community Ambulance made its first run to Philadelphia on Wednesday, when Norti Berti and Leslie Barstow transferred Frank Ferry, surgical patient for the past two months at Temple University Hospital, to his home on Machell Avenue. It was a true neighborhood pro- ject. By-laws of the Ambulance Association requiring presence of a doctor or a nurse on such long- distance runs, Mrs. Lester Shark- oski, practical nurse, volunteered to accompany the drivers. Mrs. Mich- ael Campbell, Center ' Hill Road, cared for Mrs. Sharkoski’s three- month old baby, adding its schedule to her own busy day and household of five children. Mrs. Sharkoski had to get two other children started for Gate of Heaven School before she could leave at 9 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ferry were so moved at seeing three familiar faces from Dallas that the transfer from hospital bed to ambulance stretcher was accomplished damp- eyed. Mr. Ferry stood. the trip well, though four hours on the road tired him. Mr. Berti reports that the ambulance ran like a watch, and needed gas only once, at Wind- gap on the way home. It was re- turned to the Fire House at 5 p.m. Country Couples Harry Lefko was installed as the president of Dallas Methodist Coun- try Couples (Club by Rev. William Heapps at Sunday night's dinner dent, Stella Bulford secretary, and Evelyn Hopkins treasurer. Lehman Man Breaks Arm Robert Ikeler, Lehman, is suf- fering from a badly splintered arm, broken when a tractor leapt for- ward and knocked him off a stone boat last Thursday at Hayfield Farm, Robert Bellas, principal Lake- Halt Million To Be Represented At PTA Sessions Back Mountain Council Will Have Delegates At Buck Hill Falls Mrs. Louise Caldwell, principal of Dallas Borough Grade School and president of the Back Mountain PTA Council, announced this week that nearly a half million Pennsyl- vanians, vitally interested in the welfare of their children and their" schools, will be represented at the forty - seventh convention of the Pennsylvania Congress of Parents and Teachers at Buck Hill Falls Inn October 31 and November 1, 2. There will be a number of repre- sentatives attending from Back Mountain Parent-Teacher Associa- tions. The theme of the three-day ses- sions will be “The Child and His Future.” Keynote speaker on this theme will be Mrs. Ralph Hobbs, of Cataula, Ga., for three years chairman of the Committee on Pub- lications of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. Mrs. Hobbs will address the convention on Monday night. At the Tuesday night session, the speaker will be Major Gen. Charles T. Carpenter, Chief of Air Force Chaplains, a graduate of Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pa., where last June he was given the honor- ary degree of Doctor of Divinity. His topic at the second night meet- ing of the convention will be “Meet- ing Youths’ Moral and Spiritual Needs.” At another general session of the convention on Monday afternoon, Dr. Harvey E. Gayman, executive secretary of the Pennsylvania State Education Association, will speak on “Working Together for the Child and His Future.” The greater part of the three-day session will be devoted to confer- ences, committee panels and sec- tion meetings. At these meetings delegates will. enter into the dis- cussion of opportunities for com- munity service which Parent-Teach- er Associations provide. President of the Pennsylvania Congress is Mrs. Cecil S. Garey, of Scranton. Vice presidents are to be chosen from three of the States seven districts at this session, College Girls Speak To Club Members Hear Of Foreign Lands Four foreign students from the junior class at College Misericordia spoke to members of the Book Club Wednesday afternoon at 2 in the Back Mountain Memorial Library Annex. Maude Wadestrandt came from Haiti, Adelisa R. Almaris from the Philippines, Camille Vieira from British Guiana, and Dolores Nagai from Hawaii, Miss Almaris, of a family of ten children, became interested in the United States and College Miseri- cordia through a priest who had at one time wisited the college. Miss Nagai has not been in Hawaii since registering here three years ago. Both Miss Nagai and Miss Vieira speak excellent English. Mrs. Robert Bachman introduced the speakers. Mrs. Warren Unger presided, Mrs. Z. E. Garinger and Mrs. James Langdon read secre- tary’s and treasurer’s reports. Mrs. Raymon Hedden and Mrs. Arthur Ross poured. Others present were: Mesdames Roscoe Smith, George Montgomery, Robert Maturi, Herman Thomas, Otto Weyand, Paul Gross, Harold Titman, Herbert Smith, Jr., Russell Frantz, Edwin Norcross, Edith A. Corime, J. Stanley Rinehimer, John Vernon, Albert Shafer, Jr. Dana Crump, Gerald Stout, Preston Stur- devant, Felix Weber, J. H. Godt- fring, H. W. Smith, and Miss Mar- garet Wood. Township Microphone Hot Off The Press The Hallowe'en issue of the ‘“Mic- rophone,” Dallas-Franklin High School - paper, was published on Wednesday. The editor is Wilma Weidner; as- sistant editor, Verna Lee ‘Wagner; art editor, Janet Newberry; feature editor, Carol Altemus; exchange editors; Marilyn Conden and Kay Rowley; news editor, John [Senchak; sports editor, Dale Wagner; oircula- tion manager, Peggy Bunney; pro- duction, Secretary Practice Class; faculty adviser, Miss Ethel Shultz; reporters, Mollie Carey, Richard Clemow, Marion Noon, Barbara Nor- Melicent Traver, Joan Payne and Anna Mae Weiss.
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