Oldest Business Institution In The Back Mountain Two Easy to Remember Phone Numbers 4.5656 or 4-7676 VOL. 66, No. 14, FRIDAY, Pressure Pump Ruthorized By Jointure Board Cafeteria Hard Hit By Reduction In Federal Subsidy Purchase of a pressure pump to supply the upper ‘levels of West- moreland High School with sufficient water, was voted at Tuesday eve- ning’s ‘meeting of the joint school board, subject to approval of Atty. Mitchell Jenkins. Deemed an emergency, with im- mediate relief in the water supply needed to forestall cancellation of school sessions, the expenditure of $730 was authorized. Nine letters were sent out to various plumbing contractors, of whom only three made reply, two offered bids. Har- old Ash was the low bidder. Purchase and installation, requir- ing considerable new plumbing, will run, according to John ‘Wardell, chairman of the water committee, gomewhat higher than the original estimate, which was under $500. This installation, said Mr. Wardell, is the first step in getting enough water for proper operation of the Home-making room, with erection of a reserve tank on the hill be- hind the school a second step, if the pressure pump does not relieve the situation, In any event, the pressure pump appears to be a necessity, and its use indicated in conjunction with a possible storage tank. Cafeteria Problems Cafeteria losses, according to James Martin, supervising principal, may be laid to several things. One is the reduction of reimbursement for the hot lunch program, a sub- down, with great hardship to every school offering ‘cafeteria service. The second factor, he stated, is the pref- erence of many students to buy the classic hot dog at a neighborhood snack bar, rather than purchase a properly balanced hot lunch. This is a condition which does not exist in other jointures of the Back Mountain, explained Mr. Martin, as schools in predominantly rural areas have an® enrollment which auto- head is a fixed charge, whether a cafeteria serves 300 or 400 lunches. Also, small children do not consume as much food as older students, which averages down the quantities necessary in a cafeteria catering to both grade and high school students. Even with surplus foods recently received, including frozen hamburg, pork and gravy, butter, lard, sweet potatoes, orange juice, and canned ham, the cafeterias is up against an imbalance between expense and in- come which is slowly nibbling away the accumulated surplus of more favorable years when subsidies were higher. Miscellaneous Back Mountain Lumber Company's bid of $9.75 per ton, for coal, de- livered, firm price guaranteed, was accepted. Four bids were opened. Expenditures of $20,379.09 were reported, as against an income of $21,002.02. Bills to the amount of $5,820.72 were ordered paid, in- cluding an assessment for $110 for the Anthracite Institute. Mr. Martin reported one case of scarlet fever in the kindergarten, nine cases of chicken pox in the de schools. gov W. B. Jeter, Jr., and Mrs. Florence Hozempa were placed on the substitute list. ) : The Finance Committee was in- structed to meet April 20 at 7:30. Mr. Martin, Charles James, Ray- mond Kuhnert and William A. Aus- tin along with E. S. Teter, county superintendent, expect to go to Har- risburg together to discuss jointure on Tuesday, April 10. Present were: Mr. Martin, Mrs. Charles Eberle, L. L. Richardson, Lewis LeGrand, Charles Mannear, William Clewell, Dr. Robert Body- comb, D. T. Scott, Harry Ohlman, Atty. Mitchell Jenkins and John Wardell. Mrs. William Pritchard represented the Trucksville PTA as visitor and observer. Lake-Noxen Parents Want More Classrooms Lake-Noxen Parent Teacher As- sociation is circulating petitions throughout the two school districts requesting the joint school board to take action on the addition of six class rooms and a cafeteria to the school plant at Laketon. The action was authorized at the March 21st meeting of the Parent- Teacher Association. Petitions will be presented to the Joint Board at its meeting next Wednesday night. Loyalville Ham Supper Fresh ham and meat loaf supper, Loyalville Methodist Church, Wed- nesday, April 11 starting at 5:30 p.m. Phone reservations to Mrs. Walter Wesley, Sweet Valley 7-2659 before April 9. Scarlet Fever Epidemic On Wane At Lehman Phillips Says All Should Have Regular Physical Examinations Dr. C. Hayden Phillips of the State Department of Health this week warned parents of children who have recovered from Scarlet Fever that these patients should be watched and given repeated physi- cal examinations during the next three to six months because of the danger of Rheumatic Fever follow- ing Scarlet Fever which has taken on an added virulence this year. Dr. Phillips said that ten years ago Scarlet Fever was practically unheard of and very mild, now its cycle has swung around. In Lehman-Jackson-Ross Schools where there have been more than 84 cases this year, the Health De- partment and Department of Agri- culture investigation has revealed that 88 per cent of the cases had no preventative medication after being exposed and 17 percent: had only insufficient medication or re- ceived it too late. While there has been an increase this year in cases in many locations throughout the State, Lehman has been the hardest hit of any Luzerne County community. Dr. Phillips said the peak was reached there about two weeks ago. This however, is the season when Scarlet Fever can be expected. Often it appears with- out a rash and might be diagnosed as a septic sore throat which, of course, it is. No child, he said, should return to school until its health has been certified by a physician. Lehman School authorities will no longer permit children to return to classes without signed certification of health. Scarlet Fever patients are allow- ed to return to school after a seven- day isolation period only if they are certified as well by a physician. Frequently children have return- ed to school without this certifica- tion and while they still had run- ning noses. Dr. Phillips said two school. bus drivers haa to be’ taken off.-their busses when it was discovered that there was Scarlet Fever in their families. In the home of one there was a lapse of two to three weeks before another member of the fam- ily contracted the disease. Speaks ‘Here Monday Robert E. Moran, assistant pro- fessor of music at Wilkes College and director of the Wilkes Band, will be the featured speaker at the Trucksville PTA meeting on Mon- day at Trucksville Firehouse, Car- verton Road, at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Moran's topic will be “Music Education for the Elementary School Child.” He will be introduc- ed by William Pressman, president of the group. Mrs. Welton G. Farrar will report on a movie held at the Himmler Theater on Easter Monday and will announce plans for the annual card party. Ray McDonald Buys Main Street Property Ray McDonald, Wellington Ave- nue, manager of Luzerne County News, has purchased from James Durkin, Lake Street, the store and office building located at the corner of Mill and Main Street, Dallas. Ground floor storerooms, are pres- ently occupied by Card 'N Stuff and Grace Cave Shoppe. Mr. McDonald plans no immed- iate changes having purchased the building as an investment. Women Club Dinner Wednesday At Legion Dallas Senior Women’s Club din- ner will take place at the American Legion Home Wednesday ‘evening at 6:30. Reservations must be made by Monday. Mrs. Stefan Hellersperk promises an entertaining program. James Bonn, Barry Landmesser, Barbara Norbut. Row 5 — Carol Richard Rogers, Harold Eustice, Soltishick, Esther Layaou, Janice Lake Chief Nabs Car Thief Trio Singlehanded, Takes Youths To Barracks Chief Edgar Hughes captured three youths from New York City late Wednesday night, and saw them on their way to detention in KisLyn before returning from Wyoming Bar- racks at 3 a.m. On a routine patrol, Chief Hughes saw a two-toned 1955 Studebaker acting suspiciously at Wardan Place, flashed on the red light, and gave chase up Warden and down First Avenue, where he crowded the car off the road, forcing it to stop. Leaving his driving companion, Otto Bierly, secretary to the Har- veys Lake ‘Board of Supervisors, to handle the patrol car, Hughes searched the three sixteen-year olds for concealed weapons, confiscated two switch knives, forced all three youths into the front seat with him, and drove the Studebaker to Wyo- ming State Police Barracks. Investigation showed the boys had stolen the yellow bodied car from N. G. Fook Tong, a wealthy Chinese living at Kew Gardens, Mon- day night, hidden it in an alley, and started for Pennsylvania Tues- day morning. School was out, they explained, and they didn’t have any- thing to do. They reached Wilkes-Barre at 4:30, having made brief stops in Allentown, Easton and Hazleton. A garage attendant, unidentified, rec- ommended Harveys Lake as a good place to spend the night. It was while they were sizing up summer cottages with a view to finding sleeping quarters, that they were ap- prehended. They were fingerprinted and pho- tographed before being sent for the night to Kis Lyn by Elmer Fraley, Juvenile Court official. Rotary Charter Night Dinner Dance April 12 William Valentine, president of the Dallas Rotary Club, extends a cordial invitation to friends of Ro- tary in the area to attend the an- nual Charter Night dinner dance at Thursday evening, April 12. Reser- vations must be in by April 6th! and may be made through any member of the Dallas Rotary. Mayor Leo C. Williamson of Wil- liamsport, well known for his hum- orous entertainment, will be the chief speaker of the evening. Dis- trict Governor, Andrew Morrow of Towanda will also be a guest. Fol- lowing dinner and entertainment, there will be dancing with Mark McKune’s orchestra. Dinner will be served promptly at 7. Fernbrook Little League Registration Monday and twelve who wish to sign up for Federal Wildlife experts estimate that Trumpeter Swans on the American continent are almost ex- tinct. Friday afternoon Joseph Baloh, 850 North Street, Luzerne, poach- ing on Scranton-Springbrook Water Company property at Huntsville, wantonly shot one of these beau~ tiful birds! He later signed a confession and tector Carl C. Stainbrook of Sweet Valley. y Only quick action on the part of Hanford Eckman Sr. ‘and his son, Kenneth, of Huntsville brought the offender to any kind of justice. The bird had been at Huntsville Reservoir for several days where it excited the admiration of scores of nature lovers who observed it through field glasses swimming and feeding along the far margin of the water. | On Friday Mr. Eckman and his family were watching it through glasses from their home on the op- posite side of the lake near the Convalescent Home, when they saw a hunter wearing a red Woolrich type jacket approaching the bird with a shotgun. They shouted a warning not to shoot; but it was too late. The man fired, and then, apparently frightened by the shout- ing, fled back through the thicket leaving the wounded bird flounder- ing in the water. Kenneth Eckman immediately jumped into his car and drove to the other side of the lake while his father called The Dallas.Post and told the editor of the shooting. When Kenney reached the inter- section of Huntsville Road and the dirt Borough road that parallels the lake but at a considerable distance from the shore, he drove up it. At the crest of the knoll, where young folks park their cars at night, he observed a man seated on a boulder beside the road with his shotgun across his knees. Near him was a parked two-tone Buick. Eck- “man got the license number and | proceeded on down the road toward | the intersection with Machell Ave- | nue. There he met Ralph Rood and | Robert Bachman of The Dallas Post | who were also looking for the | poacher. Eckman told them about [the man on ‘the boulder, but when | they arrived at the spot a few min- | utes later he had fled. Chief of Police Russell Honeywell was given the licerise number which he checked out with State Police {and the Game Commission was I notified of the shooting. | Within a matter of minutes Dep- {uty Game Protector Peter Fritsky | and his son, Peter Jr., of East Dallas were on the job. He obtained further evidence and some empty shotgun shells from the lake shore, and after some ‘time, he was able to get the dead bird out of the water. State Police informed Chief Hon- eywell that the license number of the green Buick belonged to Joseph Baloh of Luzerne. Luzerne Police then investigated and found that Baloh had gone to church with his wife in the Buick! Later, Game Protector Stainbrook confronted Baloh who at first said that he was shooting foxes and never hunted waterfowl. Stainbrook confiscated his shotgun which was later fired and shells compared with those found on the lake shore. After Baloh signed the confession he was fined $10. : A Rare Bird The Trumpeter Swan, the largest of all the North American waterfowl, belongs ‘to a vanishing race. It has succumbed to incessent persecution in all parts of its range, and its extinction is now only a matter of years. Wildlife experts say that there are not more than 500 of them on the American continent. “Outside of a few pairs in Yellow- stone National Park” says the Wild- life Management Institute, ‘the (Continued on Page 8) will register Monday evening at 8 at the home of Harry (Porky) Mar- tin in East Dallas. Requirements are a birth certificate and the presence of one parent. Polio Shots To Be Had At Kirby Will Not Be Given At Grade Schools Parents of twenty-nine children of the Dallas Borough - Kingston Township school jointure who had one polio shot,” and who have not received the second, were informed vesterday by letter from supervis- ing principal James Martin, that the second shot will not be given at the school but at Kirby Health Center, Wednesday mornings, from 110 until noon. Twenty-nine child- | ren in the jointure are eligible for | this second shot. { There is a question whether polio | shots will continue as a free service, therefore parents are advised to take | advantage of the Wednesday shots ‘at once, while the offer is still open. { Doctors agree that while the first shot is of value in protecting child- | ren, its value is greatly enhanced | by the second shot. A series of {three shots is advisable. All such | shots should be given before the | onset of summer weather. ‘Taken Ill At Sugar Camp King Admitted To Veterans Hospital Morris King, East Center Street, Shavertown, was admitted to Vet- erans Hospital yesterday morning for observation and diagnosis, suf- fering from a hemorrhage from the lungs. Dr. Richard Crompton is his attending physician, Mr. King, 66, a veteran of World War I, was gassed in combat, his lungs badly affected, and his eyes blinded for eight months from burns. At his maple sugar camp in Sul- livan County on Sunday, he became ill while tapping trees and collecting sap, and drove home late at night, very sick. Before Jackson Township one room schools closed, Mr. King taught at Rome and Oakdale. He also taught in one room schools in Dal- las Township, and for a year in the new high school building. His teach-~ ing career embraced 37 years. Three Grass Fires Of Mysterious Origin Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Com- pany extinguished three grass fires during this past week, two on Church Street near the residence of Don Evans Saturday and Sunday near the Dallas Motel at 10:30. In none of the three instances was there any hint of carelessness on the part of the householder, and the origin of the fires is unexplained. Bmbulance Has Brakes Relined Dallas ‘Community Ambulance was out of commission Wednesday and Thursday while brakes were being relined. Kingston Township ambu- lance was alerted to answer possible calls. Council Asked To Unscramble Sunday Traffic Police Committee And Gate Of Heaven Officials Will Confer Improvement of traffic conditions on Machell Avenue in the vicinity of Gate of Heaven Church and School during peak periods, was asked by a group of Machell Ave- nue property owners at the meeting of Dallas Borough Council on Tues- day night. John Hildebrant, spokesman for the group composed of Mrs. Carle- ton Davies and Earl Phillips, said that it is sometimes impossible to get in or out of the street because of two-way traffic and improper parking. Mr. Hildebrant said that he had discussed the problem with Rev. Francis Kane who is also eager to work out a solution to Sunday morning traffic congestion. Leslie Barstow, a member of the parish, made some valuable sug- gestions, indicated that one-way traffic during peak hours might be a solution. After some discussion Council turned the problem over to the Police Committee headed by Fred Welsh for solution. The com- mittee, Chief-of-Police Russell Hon- eywell and Gate of Heaven officials will cooperate to find a solution. Paul Shaver, representing Dad- dow-Isaacs Post, American Legion, asked Council to relieve the Legion from responsibility for the small building formerly used as a voting place and Aircraft Observation Post at Rice Cemetery on Huntsville Road. Mr. Shaver said no one seems to know who owns the Rice Cemetery property, that it has been neglected for years, and that during the War the County Commissioners erected an Observation, Post there. At that time the Boston Store gave lino- leum for the ‘floors which were laid gratis by John Girvan, and the Borough paid for the electricity used. Mr, Shaver said he would like to see the building turned over to the Explorer = Scouts, Leslie Barstow, Scoutmaster, and wondered how it could be brought about. Council said it would assume the respon- sibility and granted the Scouts per- mission to use the property. It also made a grant of $50 to put the building in shape for the boys to use. They in turn will tidy the cemetery and make the area into an attractive park. Council President Joseph Mac- Veigh announced that John Jeter, veteran Borough Engineer, is retir- ing from his duties with Lehigh Valley Railroad, and that it would be a big convenience for the Coun- cil and the community to provide him with ap office in the Borough Building. He also suggested that Mr. Jeter’s name be placed on the Borough Building window. Council approved both suggestions. Burgess H. A. Smith presented a plan to have an outside extermina- tor come in the Borough to dispatch all running unlicensed dogs and to impound all running licensed dogs. He said he was receiving many calls and complaints about damage done by running dogs. When asked by President MacVeigh to furnish the names of those making the com- plaints, the Burgess refused. While many Councilmen admit- ted that something should be done about running dogs, they did not agree that the punishment should be meted on the dogs alone and not on their owners. They refused to go along with Burgess Smith’s suggest- ion that an outsider, deputized as an officer by the Borough, should be employed to do the work. Secretary Robert Brown read the resignation of James Besecker as head of Civil Defense in the area. No one was appointed to replace Council voted te adopt Daylight Saving time beginning Sunday April 2 and continuing through October Garinger Buys Corner Lake Street Property In keeping with Sesqui-Centen- nial plans to improve the appear- ance of Luzerne County commun- ities, A. Nesbitt' Garinger has pur- chased from James Durkin the Lake Street building formerly ‘occupied by Ed VanCampen’s Barber Shop. Mr. Garinger said this week that he will raze the building which ad- joins his property now occupied by Dallas Postoffice. Gate Of Heaven PTA Frozen Food Show Gate of Heaven PTA will hold a demonstration of frozen food cook- ery in the Dallas Borough School auditorium April 24 at 8 p.m. Mrs. Catherine Fine, Home Economist for Susquehanna Frozen Foods will demonstrate. There will be. door prizes and refreshments. The public is invited.
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