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VOL. 66, No. 18, FRIDAY,
Speaker At St. Paul's
pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran
Church in 1926, will be the main
Speaker at the church open house
and reunion next Wednesday eve-
ning. Families will meet to enjoy
a social hour at 7:30. A buffet wiil
follow the program. z
The family night is one of the
special meetings planned for the
week which follows rededication of
the church and its new addition on
Sunday.
The thirty-first anniversary and
rededication program will start Sun-
day at 11, with an address by Dr.
Russell Stine, professor of Religion
and Philosophy at Muhlenberg Col-
lege, who will revisit the scene of
his supply pastorate when St. Paul's
was first organized, May 10, 1925.
The church will be open for in-
spection Sunday afternoon and eve-
ning.
Sunday School night is scheduled
for Monday, with Dr. Earl Rahn,
executive secretary of the Board of
Education of the Ministerium, guest
speaker, Superintendent is Robert
Voelker, assisted by Ralph Gerhart;
Mrs. Eidam, primary department;
Mrs. Joseph Maza, cradle roll.
Sketching St. Paul’s “history in
brief, land was purchased from
George Travis and the cornerstone
laid the following October. The first
service was held in the new edifice
February 14, 1926.
Dr. Ruff resigned the pastorate
after eleven years, and has since
become editor in chief of thé United
Lutheran Publication House and ed-
Dilemma of Church and State, was
published in 1954 after personal
study of the Iron Curtain countries.
Rev. Herbert Frankfort was the
second pastor, succeeded in turn by
Rev. John Taylor, Rev. Frederick
W. Moock, and the incumbent, Rev.
Frederic H. Eidam. /
An extensive remodeling program
has just been completed at a cost
of $50,000. Frederick Eck was chair-
man of ‘the building project, assist-
ed by Carl Frey, Alfred Boysen,
William Pethick, and Robert Voel-
ker. Robert Eyerman was the arch-
itect, A. O. Yocum contractors.
Breaking ground for the addition
were two of the oldest members of
the congregation, John Eck “and
Mrs. Catherine Malkemes. It was
Mr. Eck, who upon adoption of the
constitution in 1925, proposed the
present name of the church.
Michael Kozich Rushed
By Ambulance To Mercy
Michael Kozich, Demunds Road,
was rushed to Mercy Hospital Wed-
nesday morning at 10:20, suffering
from severe lung hemorrhage. The
Dallas Community ambulance, sum-
moned by Dr. H. G. Gallagher,
administered oxygen on the way.
Norti Berti bringing a fresh supply
to insure plenty for the trip. Vic
Cross drove, Ray Titus and Leslie
Barstow cared for the patient. Mrs.
Kozich was a passenger at her hus-
band’s side.
Mr. Kozich had one lung removed
several months ago. He was hold-
ing his own, but far from well. The
delayed shock of losing his home
by fire March B81 may have been a
contributing’ factor to his present
collapse.
Quaint Little Apple House
Struck By Lightning Bolt
The quaint little apple house in
the garden at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Bedner, Forty-Second
street, was struck by lightning just
before the deluge Sunday evening,
and its roof badly damaged. Baw-
dust used as insulation smouldered
for some time while Dr. Henry M.
Laing Fire Company fought the
fire under direction of Chief Norti
Berti. ‘
The same bolt which set fire to
the apple house knocked out the
telephone, making it necessary for
Mr. Bedner to run next door to the
Trethaway home to telephone for
help.
Auction Plans
Start Rolling
For July 6, 7
Advisory Board Lays
Functional Structure
For Smooth Operation
Planning committee for the Tenth
Annual Back Mountain Library
Auction laid foundations for smooth
running of the big event July 6 and
7, at Tuesday night's meeting in
the Library Annex.
Not all committees are complete,
but it is definite that Mitchel Jenk-
ins and H. W. Smith will have
charge of New Goods, the category
responsible for the major portion
of Auction receipts.
Robert Bachman, reporting to
Howard Risley, chairman, for a
number of sub-committees, stressed
the need for stopping some gaps
noted in last year’s Auction. He
noted that home-made bread was
snapped up as soon as it was de-
livered to Baked Goods counters,
and suggested that a special drive
be made to induce good bakers to
contribute crusty brown loaves, cin-
namon buns, and hot rolls.
Foundations were laid for better
coordination , between committee
chairmen. Members of the advisory
board, former Auction chairmen,
will act as liaison men. They are
Howard Risley, Robert Bachman,
H. W. Smith, Mitchell Jenkins, Wil-
liam Wright, Shel Evans, and Mrs.
Fred Howell, secretary.
The gleaming white Austin Hea-
ley sports car with its red leather
upholstery, procured through Dan
Meeker as a special feature of the
Auction, will be on display at the
Kick-Off Dinner May 15 at Irem
Country Club.
Full list of committee chairmen,
with Advisors under whose section
they will work, will be published in
next week’s Dallas Post.
Senior Of The Month
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Tunkhannock where Mr. Remley
is assistant prin-
ball champions.
Rotary Club Sponsors
Dallas Township Senior
Elected by the students of the
senior class of Dallas-Franklin-Mon-
roe Township high school and spon-
sored by Dallas Rotary Club, Allan
S. Mosier is April Senior of the
Month. He was entertained at din-
ner at Irem Country Club last night.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon
Mosier, Dallas Township, Allan is
outstanding in both scholarship and
extra curricular activities. He ex-
pects to enter Lafayette in Septem-
ber, where he will major in chem- |
istry. |
He has been president of the |
Honor Society for the past two |
years; a member of the Key Club
for three years; High School Band,
six; Dramatics Club, two.
His father is instructor of Voca-
tional Agriculture at Township
schools.
Search For Fruit-Fly
Delays Car Delivery
A search for possible Mediterran-
ean fruit fly larva and eggs held
up delivery of John Vernon's car
in Bayonne, N. J., for several hours
after it had been lowered to. the
dock from one of the Standard Oil
freighters early this week. Mr.
Vernon himself, landing by plane
from Aruba, West Indies, was de-
layed overnight before starting for
Dallas to see his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Vernon, Center Hill
Road.
A quick trip to Washington to
pick up his wife and seven month’s
daughter, who came to this country
ten days ago, will bring the family
together again today in Dallas, for
Mr. Vernon's sixty-seven day leave
of absence. The last seven days
he will spend in training in the
Creole Office in New York, making
contacts for his bi-monthly] trips to
Venezuela.
Sgt. Jack Evans
Gets Bronze Star
One of Three Left
Out of Eighty-Nine
A slightly built unpretentious
Dallas Dairy driver this week re-
ceived the Bronze Star Medal for
heroic conduct against the enemy
in France on Jully 16, 1944.
He is Jack Evans, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Evan Evans, formerly of
Trucksville but now of Elizabeth
Street, Dallas. He is married to
the former Alice Holcomb and
makes his home on Carverton Road,
Trucksville.
The former Platoon Sergeant of
the First Battalion of 502nd In-
fantry with the 101st Airborne Di-
vision took part in two invasions
and four major campaigns during
World War II. He was with the
Division when it was surrounded
at Bastoone during the Battle of
the Bulge.
Jack was one of three men to
come back out of a company of
eighty-nine. For that action the
101st was the .only Division in
American history up to that time
to be cited for gallantry in action.
The Bronze Star Medal and cer-
tificate from the War Department,
authorized by the President and
signed by the Secretary of the
Army and Adjutant General, was
received almost twelve years after
the event for which it was award-
ed. Jack had no previous warning
that he was slated for it.
" In addition to the Bronze Star
he wears: the Purple Heart with
three clusters, and has two Presi-
dential citations for gallantry in
action,
He also has the following foreign
citations: French Croix de Guerre
with palm; twice awarded the Bel-
gian Croix de Guerre; Belgian Four-
ragere, awarded by Prince Charles
of Belgium on October 22, 1945;
Netherlands Orange Lanyard worn
only by the Royal Netherlands
Army. .
Jack is a graduate of Kingston
Township High School, Class of
1939. He enlisted January 29, 1941.
His brother, Evan, served with the
Marine Corps.
Goed News Club Rally
Parents and friends of members
of the Good News Club are invited
to attend the Rally in Idetown Me-
thodist Church Tuesday evening at
7:30.
Harold Ochs’ Broken
Leg Mending Nicely
There will be no baseball this
year for Harold Ochs, Jr., but the
cast will be removed from his badly
shattered leg in two or more weeks.
It has been nine weeks since he was
hurt when a pony rolled on him.
For five weeks he was in the Hazle-
ton Hospital, but four weeks ago he
was discharged to return to his
home in Drums, where he has been
getting about on crutches.
Harold has been receiving many
cards and remembrances from for-
mer friends .,in Dallas Township
schools, and he says they have
helped him get through the last
difficult weeks. § :
Broken ‘in four places, the bones
fortunatelly did not penetrate the
skin to make the injury a com-
pound fracture, but they were badly
splintered, and a second adjustment
was necessary after the fractures
had started to mend.
Lake Club Plans
Polio Support
May 18 Dance Fund
To Finance 84 Shots
If receipts are up to expectation,
the May| 18th dance at Beaumont
Inn, sponsored by Harveys Lake
Womans Service Club, will go a
long way toward financing polio
shots for 84 Lake-Noxen school chil-
dren. The current project was de-
cided upon when it developed that
many children would be denied the
third protective shot if an organ-
ization was not ready to sponsor it.
In this instance, only those chil-
dren who have had the first and
second shots are eligible for the
final protection, due to scarcity of
the Salk vaccine.
Last year the club purchased
twelve 2cc syringes and two 5cc,
along with six dozen needles. More
needles will be bought this year if
necessary. The equipment supplied
by the IClub is kept in the health
room at the main school building.
Dr. H. A. Brown of Lehman, and
Dr. Lester Saidman of Noxen will
administer the vaccine.
Dance arrangements were com-
pleted Wednesday night at a meet-
ing held at the home of Mrs. Elwood
Davis, who with Mrs. Robert Payne
is cochairman. Other committee
chairmen are. Mrs. Richard Wil-
liams, orchestra; Mrs. Floyd White-
sell and Mrs. William Deets, special-
ty dances; Mrs. Earl Payne and Mrs.
Arthur Engler, tickets; Mrs. Thomas
Garrity, door prizes; Mrs. Harvey
Kitchen, publicity.
Two Scouts To Win
Curved Bar Awards
Two Girl Scouts from Lehman
Troop 156, Susan Yocum and Nancy
Jane Dodson, will win their Curved
Bars at Thursday evening's Court
of Awards for the Dallas-Lehman
district at Dallas-Franklin-Monroe
Township auditorium. Ceremonies
will start at 7 p. m.
A number of Brownies will win
their wings, and badges will be
given. Parents and friends are in-
vited. ?
Legion Buxiliary To Meet
Nomination of officers is sched-
uled for Thursday evening at 8, at
the monthly meeting of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary at Daddow-
Isaacs Post, Memorial Highway.
Tess Rodriguez
Places Second
Misses Dairy Queen
By Narrow Margin
Therese . Rodriguez, school secre-
tary at Lehman- Jackson-Ross, was
among the five finalists selected for
State Dairy Queen, and runner-up
to the winner of the title, Beatrice
Ann Coutts of Paupeck. Miss
Coutts nosed out Therese for the
title by sheer weight of dairy farm-
er connections, eight brothers in
the business outranking Miss Rod-
riguez’ father-uncle-cousin combi-
nation.
Therese signed a contract which
would obligate her to appear at
any Dairy Queen function where
the Dairy Queen herself could not
be present. She received a bracelet
with blue stones, and a money
prize. The five finalists were inter-
viewed over T-V station WARM,
Scranton, Saturday afternoon.
Miss Rodriguez, a 1954 graduate
of Lehman, was FFA Sweetheart
during her senior year, and a mem-
ber of the Court of Honor for the
1954 May Queen, Janice Barnes,
who is also a member of the school
office staff.
Therese was a drum majorette
for three years; played basketball
two; was a member of the Honor
Society; and belonged to the Future
Homemakers of America.
She is the daughter of Julio and
Stella Rodriguez, of Chase. Mr.
Rodriguez, in partnership with his
brother Rafael, and with assistance
of Young Rafael, soon to graduate
from Lehman, operates a 200-acre
dairy farm. The milk from the
Holsteins is distributed through the
Dairymen’s League.
Orientation Day
At Westmoreland
Thursday will be Orientation day
for sixth graders at Westmoreland
High School. Graduating classes
from all three elementary schools
of the jointure will attend.
Marty Walsh At Veteran's
Martin A. Walsh, proprietor of
Colonial Inn, Fernbrook, is improv-
ing at Veterans Hospital where he
has been a patient for the past two
months. The veteran of World War
I, entering for surgery, developed
complications. He hopes to come
home within the next two weeks.
Benton Station
Will Entertain
4,000 On May 19
Wives of Personnel
Will Help With
Rir Force Family
On May 19, Armed ‘Forces Day,
the wives of the base personnel sta-
tioned at Benton Air Force Station
are going to launch a fund raicing
drive. Taking advantage of the
Open House that is going to be held
at the radar site, located on Red
Rock Mountain, the women are go-
ing to sell hot dogs and soft drinks
to the station’s visitors. The wives
will take to the refreshment stand
at ten in the morning and will man
them throughout the day until 4:00
p.m. During this time they expect
to sell more than four thousand hot
dogs to the thousands of guests of
the station. ¢
The money raised from these
sales will be used to back the Air
Defense Command (ADC) Family
Program. This is a new program
which will benefit all Air Force
dependents.
These benefits will be realized in
many ways such as: housing ser-
vice, an indexing of the housing fa-
cilities in the local area; in trans-
portation, if a dependent finds him-
self in need of transportation to a
hospital or for other reasons and
does not have a car available. Also,
legal advice will be given an how to
meet the legal question that may
arise. A weekend nursery for the
children of base personnel and the
loan of cooking utensils to newly
arrived personnel will be made
available. These are but a few of
the many plans and projects that
are being made in what will prove
to be a very active program.
In addition to mutually aiding
themselves, the wives of Benten Air
Force Station intend to actively
support and participate in local
charitable and service organizations.
Lake Firemen
Test Pumper
LaFrance Replaces
Old White Model
The new American LaFrance
pumper, a deluxe model with a cab
which cost $17,000, was tested out
in trial runs at Harveys Lake early
The pumper replaces
the old White pumper, in use by
the Daniel Roberts Fire Company
since 1935.
George Alles, president, says the
old 500 gallon pumper will be sold
to . the highest bidder. Fire Chief
Edgar Hughes is delighted with the
new apparatus. :
When ‘the new unit arrived from
Elmira, N. Y., it became the third
vehicle to be used for fire-fighting
in the history of Harveys Lake fire
unit, which dates back to about
1922. The first truck was a Reo
purchased in 1927.
The new pumper, equipped with
3,000 feet of hose, will be housed
in the structure built and given to
the firemen by the late Daniel C.
Roberts. The building also houses
the Harveys Lake ambulance and
police cruiser. All three units are
equipped with two-way radio.
The ‘firemen will dedicate the new
truck on May 27 with appropriate
ceremonies at Sandy Bottom sec-
tion of Harveys Lake. The money
to purchase the new apparatus was
raised through various benefits.
Plan Surprises
For Big Kickoit
Promise Evening
Of Fun And Frolic
Mary Weir, ticket chairman for
the Library Auction Kick-Off Din-
ner May 15 at Irem Country Club,
says that the deadline for reserva-
tions is Friday, May 11.
Harry Ohlman, dinner chairman,
says the evening will be gay and
festive, completely informal, with
nothing heavy to detract from the
fun. Several surprises have been
planned, including some plain: and
fancy auctioneering.
Complete details of the program
are lacking, but will be published
next week.
Mitchell Jenkins, president of the
Back Mountain Memorial Library
Association, will be toastmaster.
Mrs. James Hutchison, chairman
of decorations, says that lilacs
should be beautiful by May 15, and
expects everybody to cooperate
with purple and white donations.
As a special attraction, the little
Austin-Healy sports car which has
been obtained for the Tenth Annual
Auction, July 6 and 7, will be on
display. The small white job with
the red leather seats has already
attracted a lot of attention at Dan
Meeker’s garage in Kunkle.
Four Boards Are
Now In Favor Of
Large Jointure
No Plan To Abandon
Any Elementary
School Buildings
A little more pruning and graft-
ing was done on the proposed arti-
cles of agreement at Wednesday
night's five-district jointure ‘meet-
ing in the Dallas Borough Schou],
and three paragraphs were added
to clarify points at variance.
Atty. Mitchell Jenkins offered a
paragraph giving the protection of
arbitration of the original agree-
ment, to any district which might
feel an inequity in allocation of
costs of operation and capital out-
lay, which seemed to Henry Hess
and George Dymond, of Franklin
Township, an anchor to windward.
Wayne Hadsell and Frederick Weiss,
the only two members from Monroe
Township present, agreed that it
sounded good, but could not act for
their board.
The question of whether an ele-
mentary school would be maintain-
ed at Beaumont during the forty-
year life of the jointure, was an-
swered by the dry statement from
other district members, that far
from abandoning the school, other
districts were likely to find them-
selves sending small children there,
to relieve pressure on other existing
grade schools.
It was repeated by James Martin,
Westmoreland area supervising prin-
cipal, that every cubic ‘inch of
before the new High School could
be built, and that population trends
are such that there is no reason to
believe that any school would be
relocated except in case of its burn-
ing down.
But the four districts with quor-
ums present, were reluctant to ven-
ture out on a limb, of promising
something which by some stroke of
luck might prove a boomerang.
The compromise was that as long
as it was efficient to maintain them,
schools would be left in their orig-
inal locations. It is obvious, one
member stated, that if the popula-
tion should be wiped out in Beau-
mont by an atom bomb, it would be
senseless to build a- school for per-
haps twenty-five children.
Financial Picture
A great part of the evening from
8 until midnight, was spent study-
ing the financial picture. Both
Franklin and Monroe Township
boards felt that there was inequity
because of their higher assessed
valuation.
Raymond Kuhnert, Dallas-Frank-
lin - Monroe supervising principal,
replied that reimbursement from
the State irons out inequities, the
State paying from 76 to 90% of the
cost of education in those two
townships.
A plan worked out by Tunkhan-
nock was studied as a possible
model.
Francis Ambrose, chairman, point-
ed out that market valuation does
not show too great discrepancy. The
three large districts which would
bear the lion's share of the load, are
almost identical in millage and val-
uation figures, with the two smaller
districts standing to gain a lot of
education at a minimum cost.
Need was recognized for revalu-
ation and reassessment to obtain a
completely equitable figure.
Dr. Robert Bodycomb asked if a
Union district would be the answer.
Mr. Hess agreed that this was in-
evitable eventually, and the best
solution. The black beast of disso-
lution of the jointures now in effect
once more reared its head, to be
slapped down again by Frank Town-
end, who stated flatly that he con-
sidered their retention for the in-
terim period a valuable’ protection
for districts which are now working
smoothly together.
Board members stretched them-
selves wearily at midnight, agreeing
to submit the articles of agreement
to their respective boards. West-
moreland will meet Monday, Dallas-
Franklin-Monroe Tuesday.
If agreement can be reached,
there will be a meeting for formal
signature within the next two
weeks.
A straw vote showed all districts
now in favor except Monroe, which
was not in position, to go on record,
having no quorum.
Bible Class Does
Fine Job On Dinner
Members of the Franklin Bible
Class cleared forty-one dollars and
seventy cents at their delicious
chicken dinner held at the home of
Mrs. W. B. Risley on Wednesday.
Members furnished most of the food
in the form of covered dishes, them-
selves.
Proceeds will be used to pay for
a pew in Dallas Methodist Church.
To Appear On T-V
Robert E. Lee, Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert E. Lee, Dallas, will ap-
pear on WILK -T-V for the first
time, Sunday at 2 p.m. on the
David Blight show.
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