Oldest Business . Institution In The Back Mountain “ THE DALLAS POST ——————————— Two Easy to Remember Phone Numbers 4-5656 or 4-7676 VOL. 67, No. 10, FRIDAY, Blood Donation Today At Noon ~ Brea Is Set Up On Volunteer Basis Margaret Wood, chairman of vol- unteers for Wyoming Valley Red Cross, is organizing the Back Moun- tain along a volunteer basis for present and future blood donation days, the first area in which this has been attempted. Members of the Motor Service who will be on duty today for the 12 to 6 p. m. Blood Donation at Dallas Borough School are Mrs. Robert Post, Mrs. Don Davis, Mrs. Frank Parkhurst, Mrs. Foster Rog- ers, and Mrs. Melvin Vivian. Additional canteen workers are Mrs. Mary J. Wright, Mrs. William Wright, and Mrs. H. ‘W. Peterson. Doctors who will officiate are Dr. Malcolm Borthwick, Dr. Richard E. Crompton, Dr. Michael Bucan, Dr. H. G. Gallagher, and Dr. Gordon Bell of headquarters. Jennie Hill, Westmoreland nurse, ill be on duty. ™ Additional staff aides will be Mrs. William Krimmel and Mrs. Ward Jacquish. ‘Arrangements will be made in advance in the school auditorium by Mr. and Mrs. McDonough. Mr. McDonough is Blood Coordinator for the Wyoming Valley area. PU ein Register Today For Surplus Foods Area registration date for surplus foods is scheduled for today at Dallas Borough Building, 10 to 4 p.m., according to information re- ceived from Joseph A. Glycenfer, chief clerk of Surplus Foods Admin- istration for Luzerne County. Toppling Drill Lacerates Head Lehman Shop Student Needs Six Stitches Wardan Wesley, ninth grade stu- dent at Lehman-Jackson-Ross, sus- tained a deep head laceration Mon- day morning when a high-speed drill in the shop toppled and threw him against a | table. Dr. H. A. Brown used six! sutures in closing the wound at the back of the head. Wardan and another/ninth grade vocational agriculture” Student, Jo- siah Harrison, attempted to move the drill in the coufse of a volunteer cleaning campaign. The drill, rocked from.side to side, fell on its apron. Wardan escaped being iki to the floor by the half ton mechanism. ~ absence of Fred Schobert, instructor, ill at home, Lester Squier, supervising principal, had taken the precaution of disconnect- i 1 electrical connections. a six school children of Mr. and Mrs. George Wesley, Sweet Val- ley, only two have student insur- ance. Warden was not protected by insurance. Lehman Plans On Mile Of Pennies Goal Is Uniforms For School Band Lehman-Jackson-Ross Band Spon- sors will open their Mile of Pennies campaign today, in an effort to raise $3,500 for new band uniforms for fifty-five band members. Already raised by Bake Sales and house to house canvass is the sum of $1,000. Printed envelopes show- ing how thirty-six pennies add up to a yard of pennies, will be dis- tributed for contributions. A quar- ter, a dime and a penny will be acceptable as thirty - six pennies, says Mrs. Mary Laskowski, drive chairman. Cash prizes are offered for the student bringing in the highest num- ber of envelopes in each room. Uniforms now in use are sixteen years old, and overdue for replace- ment. 5 i Bernard Gerrity is band director, and Mrs. Margaret Spencer presi- dent of the Band Sponsors. Three Motorists Fined Three motorists were arrested this week by State and Dallas police for running through the red light at the intersection of Main Street and Me- morial Highway in Dallas Borough. They were: Donald Smith, Dallas trucker, 144 Main Street; Charles Crane, Dallas RD 4, and Joseph F. Skuntz. All were fined $10. each. New Market Probable While there is no confirmation from any source at present it is rather definite that an Atlantic & Pacific Market will be ‘located along Memorial Highway during the coming year. ° , - MARCH 8, 1957 Anthony Macri On Dean's List Will Raise Herefords Upon Graduation” Anthony (C. Madi, Jf) has made the Dean's List at Pennsylvania State University for the fourth time. A senior in animal husbandry, he expects upon graduation in June to ‘make a life work of raising white-faced Hereford cattle on the family place on Route 115, half way between Pikes Creek and Rick- etts Glen. ANTHONYY C. MACRI, JR. Several years ago he and his father, Anthony Macri, Sr., started with two animals, purchased a reg- istered bull calf from the Shawnee Hereford herd, and now have eight brood cows which will calve this spring. A family project was dam- ming the creek, and building an outdoor shelter for the sturdy short- legged stock which prefer rugged weather to shelter in a barn. The 125 acres, purchased in 1951 for summer occupancy, is now the permanent family home. The roof of the big stone house was raised, and a second story constructed of California Redwood by Whitesell Brothers. Lois, the younger sister, now a student at Coughlin from which An- thony graduated four years ago with straight A’s, and Ruth Ann, in training at Nesbitt Hospital, are de- lighted with the cattle raising pro- ject. Mrs. Macri tosses hay to the gentle bull in between feedings, and the entire family is enthusiastic about exchanging city life for the country. Mr. Macri, Sr., a trucking contrac- tor for the Acme Stores, expects eventually to abandon that employ- ment and go in for full time farm- ng. March Comes In Like A Lion, Promises To Go Out Like A Lamb March came in like a lion, with sleet and snow and slushy roads on Friday. According to tradition, it will go out like a lamb, with sunny skies, and daffodils, on March 31. On the first day of April there will be the first of a series of five onion-snows, each more unwel- come, than the last, and on April 30 there will be a hard frost. Local goose-bone prophets may take it from there. — Special Bird Program On Thursday, Public Invited The Bird Club invites anybody in- terested in birds to attend a special program Thursday evening at 8 in the Library Annex, when E. V. Chadwick, Luzerne County Exten- sion, will put on tape recordings of Birds of Pennsylvania, and show MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Dairy Council Reelects Rice Harter, Rice, Many Years Of Dairying Kenneth Rice was reelected presi- dent and Sherman Harter vice presi- dent of the Dairy Council of Scran- ton - Wilkes-Barre area March 4. Louis Purvin, Wilkes-Barre, is one of four directors. Mr. Rice, Orchard Farms; is serv- ing his second term ag’ president, succeeding Mr. Purvin,/who for the first two years headed the. newly organized Dairy Couneile Mr. Rice has been in the dairy farmer business for a long time, starting in Lehman, where over a period of twenty years he built a herd of 100 Ayreshires, which he brought with him to Orchard Farms eleven years ago. Several years ago, he disposed of his Ayreshires and started building a herd of Guernseys. Milk from his own herd is now supplemented by milk from Lake Louise Guernseys for distribution over a wide area. Sherman Harter, following in the footsteps of his father Harry Harter and working hand in hand with his mother, Mrs. Marion Harter, has been in the dairy business ever since he was a young boy. Harter Dairy distributes over the entire Wyoming Valley area. Local sponsors are: Harter Dairy, Orchard Farms, Shady-Side, Orange, and Chase Farms Dairy. Miss Williams In State Band To Play In Shamokin March 14, 15 And 16 Roberta Williams, Westmoreland High School senior, will play in the State Band at Shamokin March 14, 15 and 16. Miss Williams was a member of the Northeast District Band at Clark Summit this year, and at Canton last year. She has played in the Westmoreland Band for the past five years, is a member of the flute trio, and accompanist for the Senior Chorus ROBERTA WILLIAMS She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Williams, Main Street, Dallas. | Of the 175 players from 75 school districts playing in the Clarks Summit Festival in February, thir- ty-eight were selected to play in the State Band, one of the highest honors a high school music student can attain. Only the most outstand- ing music students are eligible to compete in district and State bands. Lester R. Lewis is Westmoreland instrumental music instructor and band director. Charter Night March 28 Charter Night for Dallas Rotar- ians will be March 28, with a din- ner-dance planned for wives and colored slides. guests. Chairman is Doc Farrar. HERMAN L. WEISLER Natona Manager Will Direct Operations Of Bll Of Firm's Plants Mathew F.- Birnbaum, president of Native Laces & Textiles, Incor- | porated, announced today that at the next meeting of the Board of Directors, Herman L. Weisler will be elected vice president in charge of all plant operations. Mr. Weisler has been with the company since 1949 as General Manager of Natona Mills, Inc., one of the company’s mills located in Dallas. Prior to his affiliation with Native, Mr. Weisler was the plant manager of the Tubize Rayon Corp., Hopewell, Virginia plant, which later was merged with Celanese Corpora- tion of America. A native of New York City, Mr. Weisler’s home is at 156 James Street, Kingston. He is married and has two children Jane, a student at Goucher College and Nat, a senior at Wyoming Seminary. Mr. Weisler will have his head- quarters in New York City and the family will probably: move there later this year. ~N Native Laces & Textiles and its affiliates employ about 1400 and operate, in addition to Natona Mills, Inc., the Bauer & Riggio Embroidery Co., Inc. of West New York, New Jersey; H. & F. Binch, Inc., of Glens Falls, New York; Native Lace Works, Inc. of Hightstown, New Jersey; Wilcox Lace Corp., Middletown, Conn.; and is affiliated with Carver Lace Works, Inc., Bronx, New York. The Sales Office of ‘the company is located at 261 Fifth Avenue, New York. A full line of laces, knitted fabrics, embroideries, elastic goods and cir- cular fabrics are manufactured and sold by the company. Residents of central Dallas are warned that neighbors are com- plaining about being disturbed at night by their whining and barking dogs. Arrests will bei made. A wild midnight police chase dur- ing the ice storm last Saturday night resulted in the arrest of Raymond Barnhardt, 119 Poplar Street, King- ston, and considerable damage to officer Victor Cross’s automobile when it skidded on the ice on the DeMund’s road near the Leslie Tinsley place. Officer Cross took up the chase when Barnhardt, driving his 1957 Ford at a high rate of speed, sped down the Dallas Main street and Steering Wheel Crushes Chest In Car Smash” On Critical List At Nesbitt After Skidding On Snow Mrs. Leona Dodson, 40, Hunlock Creek RD, was seriously injured yes- terday morning at 8 when her car struck a patch of ice at the concrete bridge at Forest Hills and crashed into a maple tree. Mrs. Dodson’s chest was crushed by the steering wheel. She is on the critical list at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. 3 The engine was forced back to- ward the driver's seat, and the windshield smashed. Doors, jammed by the collision, had to be pried open with crowbars to reach the victim. Mrs. Dodson was semi-con- scious when rescued, suffering deep- ly from shock. She was taken to Kingston by the Bronson ambulance. Senator Newell Wood, Mrs. Dod- son’s employer, vacationing in Flor- ida, was informed by telephone, and her husband Glenn, employed at the Corning Glass Works, sent for. A daughter Beverley, boarding student at Wilkes College, went immediately to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Torrence Naugle heard the crash, investigated, and summoned Dr. Lewis Thomas and Alfred Bronson: Robert Morris was quickly on the scene, and Mrs. Joe Kipp. Assisting in the rescue was Peter Wolfe, Jr. Mrs. Naugle accompanied Mrs. Dodson in the ambulance. The Chevrolet sedan was com- pletely wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Dodson lost a three- year old boy, Colin, in an accident in July, 1946, when the child, play- ing about a garage in process of construction, was injured by heavy equipment, and died almost immed- iately of a fractured skull. Roof Fire Spotted In Time To Save Dana House The home of E. L. Dana at Pole 51, Harveys Lake, escaped serious damage Wednesday morning at 10, when a plumber, working with car- penters at remodelling the summer home for year-round occupancy, climbed to the attic with a sink, and saw flames eating into the roof around the chimney. Carpenters who had stacked the huge fireplace with debris and set it alight, brought ladders and extinguished the fire with the garden hose. Har- veys Lake Fire Department was alerted, but workers had the fire out when the pumper arrived. Thrown From Truck _ Charles Newell, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Newell, Sr., of Noxen, spent three days in General Hos- pital on suspicion of concussion, returning to his home on Monday. (Charles, a student at Lake-Noxen, was thrown from the family truck driven by his brother, Roy, Jr, when the Chevrolet pick-up hit a guard rail Friday afternoon on the highway connecting Noxen with the Picnic Grounds. Roy was un- injured. Wild Midnight Police Chase Ends With Arrest Of Speeding Motorist” through the fed.light at the inter- section with Memorial Highway. At times the cars exceeded seventy miles per hour and both ran off the State Highway near the Tinsley residence. Barnhardt was fined a total of $25 by Justice of the Peace Leonard Harvey; $10 for going through a red light and $10 and $5 costs for reckless driving. Mr. Tinsley assisted Officer Cross to get his car off the road and return to Dallas. (Story on Page 9) Lake-Noxen Band Ready For Spring Concert March 15 Lake-Noxen musicians will give their Spring Concert Friday, March 16, in the high school auditorium. Both senior and junior bands will take part. TEN CENTS PER COPY -— TWELVE PAGES Primaries Promise George Jacobs Elected To Fill Board Vacancy Succeeds Mrs. Eberle, Will Run For Office In May Primaries GEORGE M. JACOBS George M. Jacobs, Pioneer Ave- nue, Shavertown, was elected Mon- day night to fill the vacancy on the Kingston Township School Board caused by the resignation of Mrs. Charles Eberle. Mr. Jacobs will be officially in- stalled at a special meeting of the board in advance of the Dallas Area School Board meeting Tuesday night at Dallas-Franklin-Monroe Town- ship school. Mrs. Eberle, who would normally have run again for office, resigned because of an impending move to St. Louis April- 45, when her hus- band will assume the assistant man- agership of the St. Louis Branch of Building Products, Johns Man- ville Corporation. This is an im- portant promotion for Mr. Eberle, who has been Northeast District Sales Representative for Pennsyl- vania. Mrs. Eberle was elected in Fed- ruary, 1954, upon the resignation of Daniel Shaver, whose term would have expired November B1, 1957. Mr. Jacobs, long interested in schools, is circulating a petition for election along with Charles Man- near, whose term also expires, prior to the May primaries. Mr. Jacobs, a native of Forty Fort and a graduate of Fort Fort High School, was in the first class of Bucknell Junior College in 1935, years before it attained four-year college status as Wilkes College. Later, he attended Bucknell Uni- versity in Lewisburg. He is sales manager for R. B. Wall Company, handling electrical and electronic products and parts. Mr. Jacobs is a trustee of Shaver- town Methodist Church, and serves on the official board. He is a mem- . ber of George M. Dallas Lodge F.& A.M. : Mr. and Mrs. Jacobs moved to Shavertown twelve years ago. They have one boy, George H. Jacobs, in the eighth grade at Westmoreland High School. Mrs. Jacobs, the former Irma Hewitt, of Forty Fort, graduated from Pratt Library Institute in Brooklyn, and served as a librarian in New York Public Library, and later at Osterhout in Wilkes-Barre. She, with her husband, is much in- terested in the Back Mountain schools and development of the cul- Prater is near, William Davis, Jacobs. Jackson Township ture of the community. 3 To Be Interesting As Candidates Circulate Petitions Seven Will Seek Tax Collector Job In Lehman Township Held By Mrs. Elston With the resignation of Mrs. Alice Elston, Lehman Tax Collector, to take effect May 1, a year before her term expires, many candidates are throwing their hats in the ring. Some of whom have already cir- culated petitions, are Gilbert Tough, Hayfield Farm; Mrs. John Sponseller, Lehman; Mrs. Albert Ide; Mrs. Rich- ard Morgan, home-bound teacher from Lake Silkworth; Mrs. William Simms, employed at Harveys Lake Light Company; William Casterline and Sheldon Cave, Idetown mer- chant. Atty. Charles Miner, solicitor for the School Board, says the Court will have to appoint a tax-collector for the interim, but that names may be submitted by the School Board and the Township Supervisors to fill the unexpired term. Samuel Rhoads and Dean Shaver will run again for Lehman School Board. ¢ Dallas Borough In Dallas Borough where two councilmen, two school directors, a tax collector and an auditor are to be elected, Republican petitions are in circulation for Council: Warden Kunkle, seeking reelection, Fred Welsh, seeking reelection, Elmer Williams and Ray Daring; for School Director, L. L. Richardson and Dr. Robert M. Bodycomb, both seeking reelection; for Tax Collector Arthur Dungey, seeking reelection; for Aud- itor Robert Moore, seeking reelec- tion; for Burgess Norti Berti. There are presently no Demo- cratic positions in circulation al- though a full slate is expected for the Primaries. There is also a strong likelihood that there will also be other Republican candidates for the offices of Burgess and Council, where three are to be elected. Joseph Jewell, whose term on Council ex- pires this year, will not seek re- election. Dallas Township In Dallas Township the terms of School Directors Philip Cheney and Thomas Moore expire. Mr. Cheney will seek reelection but Mr. Moore will retire to throw his hat in the ring for Tax Colluctor, a post held for the past sixteen i years by Wilson Ryman. Mr. Ryman is undecided at the moment whether or not he will seek reelection. The term of Justice of the Peace George Prater will also expire. Mr. undecided whether to seek reelection, Philip Kunkle, the only supervisor whose term expires, will seek re- election. Lake Township Walter Hoover, seek reelection. Frank Bialogowicz,' whose ap- pointment from Governor Leader to fill the unexpired term of the late Ralph Davis, will run for reelection on the Democratic ticket. On the Republican ticket, Harry Jones will oppose him. Wilfred Ide and Charles Williams will seek reelection to the school board. 2 Calvin McHose, elected for two terms as tax collector and filling an unexpired term by appointment, will be opposed by Arthur Engler of Ruggles. Kingston Township In Kingston Township Tax Collec- tor Theodore Poad will be opposed for the Republican nomination by supervisor, will Henry G. Kahnn of [Trucksville. Supervisor Ralph Sands, seeking re- election will be opposed by Leroy Ziegler of Carverton Road. Republican candidates for school director are to date: Charles Man- and George Terms of Jackson Township school directors Vernon Cease and Laing Coolbaugh will expire. Charles Frantz is circulating a petition for school director. Wanted: Pictures James Kozemchak, popular Dallas Post photographer, is looking for old pictures of Huntsville. He is especially anxious to find a picture of the old grist mill, the old one- room schoolhouse, and the Hunts- ville dam construction. Mr. Kozemchak has a project, to reproduce old photographs of the area and make of them a book for the Back Mountain Memorial Li- brary. : If response is sufficient, there may be a number of such books, which would preserve for future genera- tions the early days of the Back Mountain. Interested residents who have deep-rooted foundations in the area might sponsor a volume, and dedicate it to a member of the fam- ily who had the interests of the Of Old Grist-Mill And Dam Construction At Huntsville community at heart, or who was closely identified with days. its early The possibilities are almost un- limited. Mr. Kozemchak is willing to make up the books at cost, for the sake of preserving Americana of this region. Pictures may be delivered to the Dallas Post. Each picture should have the name of the owner print- ed on its reverse side, and if pos- sible a description or identification of people appearing in it. The pic- tures will not be harmed, and will be kept on file for return to owners. Not all pictures will be suitable, and there will inevitably be dupli- cates, but the wider the selection, the more interesting the volumes will be.
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