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VOL. 66, No. 19, FRIDAY,
Vassar To Be
Club Speaker
Brea Alumnae Are
Active In Welcoming
College Officials
Back Mountain residents will help
play host to one of the country’s
foremost educators next week, when
they assist in plans for the annual
spring luncheon meeting of the Wy-
oming Valley Vassar Club whose
guest of honor and principal speak-
er will be Sarah Gibson Blanding,
president of Vassar College. The
club has invited all Northeastern
Pennsylvania Vassar alumnae to
join in welcoming the illustrious
visitor.
Miss Blanding, as well as Miss
Gertrude Garnsey, Vassar’s alum-
nae association executive secretary,
will be overnight guests of Wyo-
ming Valley Vassar Club president,
Mrs. Harry W. Ruggles, Jr., at Had-
donfield Farms, when they arrive
late Tuesday for the luncheon to be
held at 1 P.M. Wednesday, May 16,
at Irem Temple Country Club. Oth-
ers from the Dallas area active in
the club and in planning for the
visit of Miss Blanding and Miss
Garnsey include Mrs. Charles S.
Frantz, vice president; Mrs. Edward
Eyerman, third, in charge of lunch-
eon arrangements; Miss Dorothy
Shepherd, publicity chairman; also,
Miss Anna Kutzner, scholarship
chairman, and Mrs. Robert G. Edg-
erton, secretary. (Reservations can
be made by alumnae by telephoning
Mrs. Edgerton at BUtler, 8-4051).
Legion To Honor
Arthur Dungey
Program At Legion
Home On Wednesday
By
Borough Tax Collector Arthur R.
Dungey, finance officer of Daddow-
Isaacs Post American Legion since
its organization, will be the honored
guest at Art Dungey Night Wednes-
day night May 06 at the American
Legion Home.
dow-Isaacs Post, will be open to all
ARTHUR R. DUNGEY
of Mr. Dungey’s friends and asso-
ciates.
having entered service in July 1918
at Camp Lee, Va., where he served
in the Medical Corps until May,
1919, when he was transferred to
Fox Hills General Hospital, Staten
Island, N. Y., where he was dis-
charged in November 1919.
Before coming to Dallas in April
1923, he was with E. P. Phillips,
furniture dealer and funeral direc-
tor in Wilkes-Barre. Following the
death of “Mr. Phillips he went with
Benesch & Sons as a salesman.
Tn 1934 Art entered politics for
the first time aspiring to the office
of Borough Tax Collector. He was
elected and has just completed his
twenty-second year in that office
with two years yet to serve of his
present term.
When Daddow-Isaacs Post 672
was first organized in the old Bor-
ough Building on Mill Street with
a membership of sixteen, Art was
made Finance Officer. Sgt. Cook of
the [State Police and Bob Miller
helped with the organization. For
eight years Art was a Director of
the Home Association.
He is a former treasurer of Dal-
las Borough PTA and is now treas-
urer of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire
Company. He is a member of the
Official Board of Dallas Methodist
Church.
He is a baseball fan who is always
ready to watch a game, but perhaps
his biggest hobby is chair caning
which he mastered in the old B. IL
A. in Wilkes-Barre,
He and Mrs. Dungey have one
son, John, of Dallas, who for the
past sixteen years has been a Lab-
oratory Technician with Hazard
Okonite Company in Wilkes-Barre.
MAY 11, 1956
Three-Year-Old
Badly Burned
Trash Fire Ignites
Dennis’ Dungarees
Dennis Schoonover, three-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Loren
Schoonover, Center Moreland, is
making good progress ‘at General
Hospital, where he is now able to
ride a trike around the yard, using
his injured right leg cautiously, and
complaining that it still “hoits.”
Dennis, thrilled with the blaze in
the trash burner Friday morning,
ran to it to throw in an angleworm
while his father was getting another
load of trash from the basement.
His sister Marian, 4, watching from
a window, screamed, “Mommie,
Dennis is burning up.”
Mrs. Schoonover rushed to the
child’s aid, tore off the little red
dungarees, already blazing, and beat
out the flames. Dr. Irwin Jacobs of
Noxen examined the child, pro-
nounced the burns third degree in
places, and ordered immediate hos-
pitalization to head off possible in-
fection.
Marilyn Conden
Twp. May Queen
Nancy Boone Chosen
For Maid Of Honor
Marilyn Elaine Conden was elect-
ed May Queen, and Nancy Marie
Boone Maid of Honor, by Dallas-
Franklin-Monroe Township senior
high school students, to preside
over May Day festivities May 15
at 1:30 on the athletic field. At-
tendants will be: Peggy Bunney,
MARILYN ELAINE CONDEN
gy Szafran, Barbara Cheney, Judy
Romanoski, Mae Kingsbury, and
Pat Whittaker.
Senior girls forming the Honor
NANCY MARIE BOONE
Guard are: Carol Altemus, Dolores
Chukinas, Carol Fitzgerald, Mar-
garet Gunton, Janet Moore, Zelva
Moore, Marion Noon, Kay Rowley,
Helen Shook, Matie Supp, Jeanette
Sutton, Mary Jane Tryon, Verna
Lee Wagner, Wilma Wagner, Anna
May Weiss.
Marilyn, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Merle R. Conden, Dallas RD 1,
a student in the commercial course,
has taken part in four May Days.
She played intramural basketball
four years, was cheerleader four
years, served on the Microphone
staff two years, and has been class
secretary for two years.
Nancy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lowell Boone, Noxen, attended
Beaumont schools for eleven years
before coming to Dallas in her sen-
ior year. She has been a cheer-
leader for three years, played on
basketball and softball teams,
served on the school patrol three
years, attended Wyoming County
Chorus one year, sang in the high
schoo] chorus four years. She was
president of the FHA this veer, was
on the Yeabook staff as a iunior,
and participated in dramatics for
three years.
Nancy is taking the Home Mak-
ing course, and plans to attend Em-
pire Beauty College after gradua-
tion in June.
mately have a staff of 300 to
400. About 25-percent of the
The Administration building is
shown outside the wire fence in the
lower left corner of the model. Di-
rectly in front of the parking area
near the administration building are
two small buildings, the one at the
left to be used for guards’ entrance;
the one at the right for visitors’
entrance.
Walking inside the fence from
the visitor's entrance, one finds the
visiting house and classification cen-
ter. Building at the left is the chap-
el. Seven large buildings at either
end of the quadrangle—four at left
and three at right, are detention
buildings to be used for minimum-
medium security. Directly across the
quadrangle from the chapel is the
control center with high tower.
Behind the control center and
slightly to the left is a large, square
high-ceilinged building which is to
be used as a gymnasium and audi-
torium and meeting place for the
entire prison population. The build-
ing will have a stage for entertain-
ment and will be equipped with the
latest motion picture facilities, in-
cluding a Cinemascope screen.
At the right of the gymnasium
are mess hall, kitchen, food storage
building and education’ building in
that order, thus completing the
buildings around the quadrangle.
Running between the gymnasium
and mess hall is an inside corridor
which connects with all the remain-
ing buildings in the picture. On the
left of the corridor behind the gym
is the hospital and behind the hos-
pital are four exterior cell blocks
for medium security. However, only
two of the cell blocks will be built
at the beginning. If the prison pop-
ulation goes beyond 1,000 inmates,
it will be necessary to get an addi-
tional State appropriation for the
other two buildings.
To the right of the corridor are
an interior cell block used for max-
imum security, and the laundry.
Large building at the upper right
will be used for industrial purposes
to train the delinquents some trade.
The building, similar to a vocational
training school, will be used for
teaching all trades such as carpen-
try, plumbing, brick laying, tin
smithing, sheet metal work, electri-
cal work, printing. It also will be
used to make mattresses.
At the top left can be seen an
oval athletic field for outdoor ath-
letics. It will be used for playing
football, baseball, basketball, volley-
ball, etc. Inside the enclosure at
right of picture can be seen a vege-
table plot and greenhouse.
Outside the fence at right are
three buildings, food storage build-
ing, part of which will be refrigera-
ted; garage and heating plant which
will burn anthracite. Seven control
towers are located at strategic points
around the outside of the fence.
“Fashions In History”
“Fashions In History”, depicting
clothes worn by pioneer women in
Wyoming Valley and directed by
Mrs. Stefan Hellersperk will be
shown at Wilkes College Thursday
evening at 8.
Evans To Give
Orchids Today
A large shipment of fresh Hawai-
ian Orchids is due to arrive here
by plane early today. They are to
be given away at Evans Rexall Drug
Store in Shavertown today and this
evening as Mothers’ Day gifts, a
custom started by Mr. Evans a
number of years ago:
The blossoms were picked only
hours ago in their natural habitat
in Hawaii, processed and packed at
Honolulu’s International Airport,
and are now on their way to Avoca
via air express. The Hawaiian Isl-
ands are over 2,000 miles from the
United States mainland.
Mr. Evans says that eighty per
cent of the women in this country
have never received an orchid, but
every woman who visits the store
today and tonight will receive one
as a Mother’s Day gift
NANCY SPENCER
TEN CENTS
Irem Course
Opens Saturday
100 Teams Scheduled
For Member-Guest Play
‘Weckesser Day program for open-
ing day, tomorrow, at Irem links
will feature an 18-hole Member-
Guest tourney with dinner and
awarding of prizes at the end of
the day. x
Uppermost in the minds of Jack
DeWitt, Sr., and his committee is
weather. The course has been wet
for some time and only this week
was greenskeeper Bob Dunn able
to get grass-cutting equipment on
the fairways.. The greens are in
top-notch condition, and Dunn
states the course will be playable
providing no more rain falls before
Saturday.
Pro Ray Gettle Official Starter,
Dan Richards will be ready for the
expected 100 teams to keep play
moving. The popular Jack Edwards,
unofficial song leader of Irem golf-
has a good program lined up for
the dinner which will feature Lloyd
“Genuine” Lustig who will present
prizes. Members will “use their
handicaps for a basis of judging
low scoring tegms.
MARJORIE MARANSKY
MILDRED WAGNER
\
Seniors Ballot
For May Queen
Lehman To Keep
Identity Secret
Six outstanding senior girls of
Lehman-Jackson-Ross were selected
by popular vote Monday at Senior
High School assembly, to compete
for the honor of being named Queen
of the May. Identity of the chosen
Queen is always kept secret until
the moment of formation of the
May processional, when the five
other candidates form her Court of
Honor, and she is crowned before
the student body, to preside over
May Day festivities, May 23 at 1:30.
The girls are:
Margaret Maransky, 17, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maransky,
Sweet Valley, has spent four years
at Lehman. A student in the Com-
mercial department, she plans to
become a secretary.
June Covert, 17, daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth Morris, Sweet Valley, is
taking a general course. She ex-
pects to go to Beauty College upon
graduation..
Alice Gardecki, 17, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Gardecki,
Trucksville RD, is a commercial stu-
dent. She expects to take a secre-
tarial course at College Misericordia.
Nancy Spencer, 17, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Spencer, Dallas
RD 4, is taking the Academic course.
This is her twelfth year at Lehman.
She hopes to become a checker at
Acme Markets.
Mildred Wokner, 17, daughter of
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ALICE GARDECKI
Magician Will
Entertain At
Auction Dinner
Rustin Sports Car
Will Be Featured
As Buction Prevue
Harry Ohlman, chairman of the
Library Auction Kickoff
promises some unusual entertain-
ment for Tuesday evening at Irem
Country Club. A member of the
Magician’s Union himself, and as
well versed in pulling rabbits out
of a hat as pulling profits out of a
crowd at the annual Library Auc-
tion, Mr. Ohlman has arranged with
a professional magician to confuse
and entertain the audience.
Herman Kern will lead group
singing.
Atty. Mitchell Jenkins, president
of the Library Association, will Em-
cee the dinner, and announce chair-
men for the tenth annual auction
July 6 and 7.
Mrs. Francis Ambrose will have a
supply of tickets for the Austin-
Healy. Tickets for the little car are
strictly limited and going like hot
cakes.
Mr. Ohlman will auction off a
few special advance gifts to the
auction, including a century old
clock and a pair of Hessian and-
irons.
Mary Weir, chairman of reserva-
tions, says reservations may still be
made today, but that returns must
be in before the weekend. These
people still have tickets for sale:
Mrs. L. E. Jordan, Mrs. Paul Mona-
han, Mrs. William Wright, Mrs.
Francis Ambrose, Mrs. Herman Tho-
mas, Mrs. Alva Eggleston, Mrs.
Mitchell Jenkins, Mrs. Ornan Lamb,
Mrs. Robert Maturi, Mrs. Jonathan
Valentine, Mrs. Harris Haycox, Mrs.
Arthur Culver, Mrs. Robert Van-
Horn, Mrs.
Mrs. James Huston, Mrs. Lloyd
Kear, Mrs. A. D. Hutchison, Mrs.
Wallace Wakefield, Mrs. H. W.
Smith, Fred Eck, Bob Bachman,
Howard Risley.
Flowers for decorations may be
cut and given to Mrs. James Hutch-
ison the day of the dinner, or to a
member of her decorating commit-
tee: Mrs. Joseph Bedner, Mrs. Mit-
chell Jenkins, Mrs. T. A. Cope, Mrs.
Arnott Jones, or Mrs. Roger McShea.
Legion Arranges
May 30 Parade
Boy, Girl Scouts
To Take Part ae
Dallas Borough Memorial Day
Parade will form May 30 at 10 a.m.
at the American Legion Home for
its march to the Honor Roll in Cen-
tral Dallas, and to Wardan Corer
tery.
At the Honor Roll, Rev. LE
Sproule, pastor of the Free Metho-
dist Church, will offer prayer and
Boy and Girl Scout representatives
will place the wreath.
Commander Joseph Kravitz will
officiate at Wardan Cemetery, and
Dallas - Franklin - Monroe Township
band will play.
Father Francis Kane will offer
the Memorial Day prayer, and Atty.
Robert Fleming will speak. At the
conclusion” of the program, a firing
squad will salute the dead, and taps,
followed by a far echo, will sound.
As many American Legion mem-
bers as possible are urged to march
in the parade. Taking part will be
the Henry M. Laing Fire Company,
Henry Peterson, president; Dallas
Community Ambulance and crews,
William Wright, president; Girl
Scout Troop 169, Mrs. Arthur Ellum;
Brownies, Mrs. Lewis Reese and
Mrs. William Wright; Boy Scout
Troop 151, Leslie Barstow; Troop
281, Percy Love; Troop 200, Robert
Buntz; East Dallas Scouts, Russell
Ockenhouse.
William Guyette will furnish she
public address hook-up, and the
American Legion Auxiliary will ar-
range for the wreath.
Club Sees Llord’s Puppets
Llord’s world famous marionettes
were shown to an appreciative aud-
ience at Wyoming Valley Womans
Club annual luncheon, held at the
Country Club Tuesday afternoon,
the second time the club has en-
gaged the young impressario. Llord,
still in his early twenties, manages
the entire production single-handed,
controlling the music with his foot,
the soap - bubble machine with a
knee, and acting along with his
puppets from his stance above the
backdrop. This appearance, he says,
is the first of a series of last appear-
ances — for the next eighteen
months he will make a world tour,
including South America and Africa,
taking with him 200 puppets, scen-
ery, and properties.
Mrs. Robert Currie, Druid Hills,
president for the past two years,
relinquished the chair to Mrs. Faye
ELEANOR RODRIGUEZ
Hopkins, Sr.