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Two Easy to
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VOL. 66, No. 23, FRIDAY,
JUNE 8, 1956
~ joint schools, presented names of
to John Perry, president of the jo
forty-five candidates for graduation
in school board, at last night's com-
Sixty-five Westmoreland seniors
exercises Wednesday night. First
Hughes, Willard Carl Schmoll, Ca
Patricia Joanne Carey, Marilyn Ru
received diplomas at graduating
row, left to right: Henrietta May
rol Ann Rudy, Maureen McDonald,
th Shaver, Beatrice Lou Ell, William
Second row, left to right:
Dallas Borough Council awarded
contracts for road oil to Mathers
Construction Company and for grav-
el to Airport Sand & Gravel Com-
pany at its meeting Tuesday night.
Mathers bid 18.4c for asphalt cut
back; 17.9 for asphalt and 19.5 for
Colas. Dale Parry bid 19¢, 19¢c and
20c. Airport Sand & Gravel was the
only bidder for gravel. Its bids per
ton were: B-2 clean $2.10; B-1 clean
$2.10 and Y%-in. clean $2.35.
Council received approval from
the State Department of Highways
to establish a 35-mile speed limit
from Orchard Street, Fernbrook, to
Central Dallas where the speed
limit will be 25 miles per hour from
Franklin Street to Lake Street. The
speed limit on Lake Street will be
35-miles. These limits will be rigid-
ly enforced by the Police Depart-
ment.
A double no-passing line will also
be painted in the center of Memor-
jal Highway from central Dallas to
Natona Mills and the regulation
will be enforced. Despite the fact
that at least 15 persons have been
killed on that stretch of highway,
the Department. of Highways will
not permit the establishment of a
speed limit of less than 50 miles
per hour.
Having allotted $3,300 in the
budget for the purchase of a new
truck for the street department, the
street committee finds that the old
International truck can be repaired
for about $250. A new ash and
stone loader will be purchased with
the balance.
; Building permits were issued as
Dallas-Franklin-Monroe Township Graduating Class
Belles, Alton Whittaker, Verna Lee Wagner, Wilma Weidner, Margaret
Gunton, Janet Moore, Jeanette Sutton, and Nancy Boone. Second row:
William Brace, Anna Mae Weiss, Marie Shupp, Carol Fitzgerald, Dale
gins, Harry White, Dolores Chukinas, Barry Thompson, Thomas Evans,
Walter Woznicki, Barbara Norbut. Third row: Marian Noon, Sherwood
June Bennett. Fourth row, left to right: Marion Louise Perrin,
Margaret Ann Weigel, Irene Marie Andrulewicz, Nancy Louise Croman,
Stephen John Balut, Joseph William Coniglio, Carol Lee Thomas,
John Carl Sherinsky Jr., Georgiena Ruth DeWitt, Lynne Schaffhauser,
Phyllis Helen Crocker. Fifth row, left to right: Robert ‘Alexander
Williamson, Doris Ann Olenick, James Thomas Reese, Carol Ruth
Simon, Franklin Lytle Perry, Robert Edward Eidam, Paul Charlton
Heslop, William John Thomas Jr., Marilyn Joan Hoeg, Lee William
Eckert, Richard Norman Seymour. Sixth row, left to right: Keith
Yeisley, Robert Stanley Piznar, Thomas Joseph Dwyer, Robert Daniel
Richardson, William Franklin DeRemer, Alan Raymond Root, Leslie
Meade Barstow, David Michael Charney, Ray Murdock. Absent when
picture was taken: Patricia Mary Peranto.
Another Killed
On Wide Curve
Speeding Car Crashes
New Section
Shedleski Makes Many
‘follows: Robert Post, Center Hill | y
Road, $6,500 improvement to dwel- | Changes In One Year
ling; August Walters, Memorial |
Highway, $2,000 improvements; Mr. and Mrs. William V. Shed-
ar Besecker, Jr., Lye Sireeh !leski will celebrate their first anni-
1,150 repairs; Dean Ide, Mill Street, |
$1,500 repairs; Clifford Garris, Jack- [Yorsary i owners of Dale Motel
son Street, $250 repairs; John with the opening of t or how
Morat, $250; repairs at Hislop’s $100,000 twenty-room addition to
Market; Harry Cole, Jackson Street, | that popular establishment.
$25 repairs; Laura Smith, Hunts-| Mr. and Mrs. Shedleski took pos-
ville Road $300 repairs; E. Crotha- 5 gly
fel.’ Baldwin Sirect. S150 rapairs; | Session of the original 20 - room
Charles Mayer, Lake Street, $400 Dallas Trav-E-Lodge a year ago on
repairs; Thomas Cease, Memorial June 1 after Mr. Shedleski had
Highway, $1,100 refreshment stand; | spent some years in retirement from
Arthur Kibler, Noxen, $800 produce ‘the Sunshine Beverage which he
stand Memorial Highway; Thomas 1.4 headed for twenty years.
Makravitz, Pine Crest, $445 repairs; |
Ralph Garris, Baldwin $2,500 addi-
tion to dwelling; Dr. William Ken-
nedy, Machell Avenue $2,200 re- |
pairs. | ] :
Dr. Louis Vitale asked Council to oming Semin Seornsiomn
resurface Red Ledge Drive. Diva mn Blo. spent a year
Burgess H. A. Smith turned in student and obtained his Masters
fines of $35 while Justice of the pegree at Columbia University. He
Peace Leonard Harvey turned In js an instructor at Wyoming Sem-
fines of $10. inary.
All Councilmen were present with | Their daughter, Maureen, a grad-
the exception of Raymon Hedden. |i ate of Wyoming Seminary and
| Rosemont, is now in Tokyo with
To Preside
her husband Marine Lieutenant
Brady. On May 1 she presented the
Mrs. Floyd Wolfe of Shickshinny, | Shedleski’s with their first grand-
RD, will preside at the opening |child.
session of Extension Homemakers The community is proud of the
Week at Pennsylvania State Uni- | Shedleski’s and of their beautiful
versity on Monday night, June 18. | Dallas Motel which is spreading the
Mrs. Wolfe attended the three pre- {fame of Dallas hospitality far and
vious years. : | wide with the motoring public.
The Shedleski’s now maintain res-
idence on Charles Street, Kingston,
at Harveys Lake and in Dallas.
Their son William, a graduate of
‘Into Utility Pole
A Korean war veteran was killed
and three of his companions were
injured early Wednesday morning
when their speeding automobile ran
off Memorial Highway 100 feet from
the Gulf Station, broke a heavy
utility pole like a match stick and
skidded another 150 feet upside
down until it came to rest beyond
the Gulf property.
Instantly killed was William Hen-
ry Pope Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Pope, Luzerne. Taken to
Nesbitt Hospital in Dallas Ambul-
ance were: John Malusky, 23, Lu-
zerne, driver of the Ford sedan
which he had recently purchased;
fractured wrist and abrasions; Jos-
eph Karpis, 21, Luzerne, fractured
right hip, lacerations of the right
arm; Con Adamchak, 23, Hanover
Green, lacerations of the neck, con-
tusions and abrasions.
The young men were on their
way home after spending the eve-
ning at two Harveys Lake night
spots.
Malusky told Chief Russell Honey-
well that he ran off the road when
lights from another automobile
blinded him near the Gulf service
station.
last fatal accidents in that vicinity
were in 1950 when Mrs. Hontz and
Mr. Edwards were killed a, week
apart at about the same location.
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William Schlittler, Darryl Dickson,
Carol Altemus.
Dr. Brown Gains
After Surgery
Expects To Come
Home Very Shortly
Dr. H. A. Brown, Lehman physi-
cian, will be back home again in a
matter of days, according to latest
reports from family and attending
physicians. Up and about, and
gaining strength slowly after Fri-
day’s operation, performed by Dr.
L. McA. Cattanach and Dr. Charles
Perkins at Nesbitt Memorial, he is
anxious to leave the hospital.
His son, Harold; flew back to Ban
Diego on Wednesday, and his
daughter, Louise Ferre, expects to
Jaundice is subsiding, and the
extreme itching is gone. .Dr. Per-
kins says he must not resume prac-
but Lehman
residents are jubilant about their
doctor's progress.
Head Auction
Solicitation
Ohlman, Robinson,
Name Captains
Mrs. Harry Ohlman and Mrs.
Thomas Robinson, co-chairmen of
Solicitation for the Tenth Library
Auction, scheduled for July 6 and
7 at the Barnyard in Dallas, an-
nounce captains for the area, with
a complete list of workers to be
published as soon as definite com-
mitments are made.
At Harveys Lake, Mrs.
Kitchen will take charge.
Lehman, Mrs. Stuart Marks.
Jackson, Mrs. B. Wright Yocum.
Dallas Borough, Mrs. Peter Clark.
Dallas Township, Mrs. Dana
Crump.
Shavertown, Mrs. George Jacobs,
Mrs. Charles Eberle, Mrs. James
Edwards, Mrs. Henry Otto, and
Mrs. Clifford Parker.
Trucksville, Mrs. Warren Unger,
Mrs. Arline Bessmer, Mrs. Butler
Bower, Mrs. Russell Parsons, Mrs.
George Flack, Mrs. Rinehart.
Harvey
Lehman Sixth Grade
Assembly Today, 10:30
Lehman - Jackson -Ross Sixth
i Graders will receive diplomas of
l graduation from Elementary school
this morning at a special assembly
in the auditorium. The program
will ‘be a small edition of a high
school commencement, with proces-
sional and recessional, announce-
ment of awards, special music by
the Boys’ Chorus, devotions, salute
to the flag, and a speaker of the
day.
Sgt. Donald Cutting of the Penn-
sylvania State Police will speak,
and Lester Squire, supervising prin-
cipal will present diplomas.
Mrs. A. M. Major Heads
Lehman Fire Auxiliary
Mrs. A. M. Major was elected
president of Lehman Volunteer Fire
Auxiliary at Monday night's final
Mrs. Elbert
Coombs will be vice president; Mrs.
James Davenport, secretary; Mrs.
Morton Connelly, treasurer. Mrs.
The auxiliary plans to serve a
chicken barbecue July 4, instead of
a horse show dinner indoors.
Richard Clemow, Zelva Moore, and
See Austin Healey
Sportscar On Lawn
At Dallas Post
See the little Austin-Healey
sportscar parked on the front
lawn at the Dallas Post. Dan
Meeker delivered it yesterday:
morning for display, prior to
the Tenth Annual Library Auc-
tion, July 6 and 7, when the
lucky winner will be announced
from the Auction block.
Chances are going fast. Only
2,000 ‘tickets were printed, with
the probability that they will
all / be gone before Auction
time. Wyoming Valley residents
are buying tickets, as well as
Back Mountain folks. Business
and professional men who work
in town are finding ready sale
for pairs or singles.
“The car is a little beauty,
leather upholstery and a. rain
guard.
Horse Show Chairman
named general chairman of the
twelfth annual Back Mountain Horse
Show to be held at Lehman on
Wednesday, July 4th; the annual
affair which attracts horsemen and
spectators from a wide area is spon-
sored by the Lehman Township Vol-
unteer Fire Company. This an-
nouncement comes from Stuart
Marks, president of the Fire Com-
pany.
Mr. Ide has been an active mem-
ber of the Lehman Fire Company
since its formation in 1943 and is
a member of the company’s execu-
tive committee. He is employed by
the Scranton Spring Brook Water
Service Company.
Chairman Ide said that this year’s
show will start the evening of July
3 with a two-hour exhibition of
horsemanship by the Pennsylvania
State Police; admission will be fifty
cents with all children under twelve
admitted free of charge. Fire com-
pany members feel that this famous
drill and exhibition team will at-
tract many to the Lehman show
grounds the evening prior to the
all-day show. The exhibition “is
scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in order |
that it may be presented during the |
daylight hours; refreshments will be
sold during the evening.
The July 4th show will get under-
way at 9:30 in the morning with a
full day of exciting classes. During
the day the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Fire Company will serve, out of
doors, delicious barbecued chicken
platters; other refreshments will be
served by the firemen.
Fireworks At Noxen July 4
Noxen Fire Festival will feature
fireworks July 4 at 9:30.
Mannear Heads
Westmoreland
School Jointure
Dallas Area Board
To Organize At
Tuesday Meeting
Charles Mannear was elected
president of Dallas Borough-King-
ston Township Joint School Board
at Monday night's meeting. Dr.
Robert M. Bodycomb was elected
vice president; Mrs. Charles Eberle,
treasurer; Atty. Mitchell Jenkins,
solicitor. Miners National Bank,
Dallas Branch, was designated de-
pository, and Mrs. Jack Jones re-
mains as secretary.
The two boards in the present
jointure, and the three in the Dal-
las-Franklin-Monroe jointure, will
continue to operate when the Dallas
Area Jointure becomes’ effective the
first Monday in July, but under the
name of committees, until such time
as a new senior high school is ready
for occupancy. A joint organization
meeting of all five boards is sched-
uled for June 12 at 9 p.m. at the
Dallas Township building, if State
approval has been obtained by that
date. If there is delay the Dallas
Area Jointure will meet June 19.
Looking toward a new building,
James Martin, supervising principal,
suggested that all twenty-five board
members visit a number of high
schools serving similar enrollment
districts, to get ideas on the most
up to date construction and equip-
ment.
When the new calendar was
adopted for 1956-1957, Lewis Le-
Grand raised the question of the
first day of deer season, the Monday
following the Thanksgiving recess.
Why close the elementary schools,
he inquired, when hunting would
presumably be confined to older
boys in high school. Mr. Martin's
response was that unexcused ab-
sences were bad business, and it
was better to take this into account
in formation of the calendar.
John Wardell, chairman of prop-
erty, called for inspection June 20,
starting with Trucksville Elemen-
tary school at 3 p.m., ending with
inspection of the roof at Dallas
elementary school.
‘ability of obtaining a house to house
census for the twa school districts,
saying that the expense would be
more than offset by increased tax
receipts
their majority, and newcomers to
the area. Population trends, he said,
were one of the important factors
in determining size and location of
the proposed high school buuding.
Waiter H. R. Mohr’s resignation
was accepted. Mr. Mohr, former
science instructor at Westmoreland,
obtained a sabbatical leave in Feb-
ruary, when he was named assist-
ant secretary of Wilkes-Barre Jun-
ior Cnamber of Commerce.
In his report, Mr. Martin said
that kindergarten enrollment is now
approximately 140. This enroliment,
he said, could be upped to 180, the
the six groups attending three
rooms in half-day sessions, without
seriously interfering with the pro-
gram, but that any enroliment
above that figure would make ne-
cessary construction of a partition
and employment of a fourth kinder-
garten teacher.
Present were: Mr. Martin, Charles
James, Eleanor Jones, D. T. Scott,
Lewis LeGrand, Charles Mannear,
William Clewell, John Wardell, Mrs.
Charles - Eberle, L. L. Richardson,
Harry Ohlman.
Burned Baby Improving
At Nesbitt Memorial
Little Gerald Miller's general con-
dition is now so favorable that skin
grafting will soon be attempted on
his sealp and right hand. Given a
transfusion upon admission June 1
to Nesbitt Hospital, the two and a
half months old baby, suffering
third degree burns of scalp and
hand, was on the critical list for
several days.
Dr. Lester Saidman and Dr. Irvin
Jacobs, Noxen, say that a delicate
problem is involved. The scalp will
need an extremely thick skin graft:
The little hand is badly burned and
will probably be scarred, but will
have function.
The baby, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Miller of Kunkle, was burn-
ed when a cigarette lighter ignited
his blanket, as he lay on the front
seat of the parked Plymouth sedan.
Visitor Goes To Retreat
In Dallas Ambulance
August Getz, a visitor at the
home of his brother John in Fern-
brook, was taken to Retreat Friday
afternoon in the Dallas Community
Ambulance by J. Bloomer, James
Gensel, Al Shaffer and Bill Wright.
The preceding night, called to
give oxygen to the patient, ambul-
ance men Bill Wright, Al Shaffer,
and Howard Johns, were rebuffed
and not permitted to approach.
Some time during the night the
patient got up and broke windows;
cutting himself and losing consid-
erable blood.