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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
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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.