TT TTR a Teen pre Oldest Business Institution In The Back Mountain VOL. 68, No. 12, FRIDAY, Chairman Named For The Twelith Library Ructi Charles Frantz and Donald Smith Set Date July 11 and 12 Charles Frantz, Jackson Town- ship, and Donald Smith, Dallas Township, have been named chair- man and co-chairman of this year’s twelfth annual Library Auction, ac- cording to an announcement made this week by Attorney Mitchell Jenkins, president of Back Moun- tain Memorial Library Association. The Auction will be held on July 11 and 12. It is usually held on the weekend following July 4, but because that holiday falls on Friday this year creating a conflict with Lehman Horse Show on the same date it was deemed advisable to hold the auction a week later. Mr. Frantz is vice president of Motor Twins, Wilkes-Barre Ford distribu- tors. He was co-chairman of last year’s auction, and with his wife, the former Mary Atherton, is active in all phases of community life. He is a director of the Library Associa- tion. Mr. Smith is a partner in the en- gineering firm of Roushey & Smith with offices in Kingston. He and his wife, the former Midge Kitchen, have been active in the auction for a number of years. He is a director of the Library Association and last year had charge of the sports car sale. Shortly after their appointment Mr. Frantz and Mr. Smith called for volunteers to help them with their work asking all persons who are in- terested in becoming committee chairmen or who wish to assist the auction in any way to get in touch with them. They also said they hope to make this season’s auction dinner the biggest community Shope in years. Cancer Crusade Lists Chairmen For April 14, 19 Goals And Services Outlined At Rally By Guest Speakers Mrs. Fredric Anderson, Cancer Crusade chairman for the | Back Mountain area, has completed the selection of district chairmen. An- nouncement will be made at a Can- cer Rally scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p. m. in the Library Annex. Local crusade will be held from April 14 to April 19, inclusive. All final returns are to be made Tues- day evening, April 22, at the Library Annex at 7:30. Mrs. Maurice Kirshner, Luzerne County chairman, and Mrs. Nathan- iel R. Elliott will speak on campaign plans and services offered by the American Cancer Society in the local communities. District chairmen who will spear- head the April drive are: Dallas Township: Mrs. Charles Rinehimer; Mrs. Oliver Rome, co- chairman. Harveys Lake: Mrs. Malcolm Nel- son. Lehman: Mrs. Gordon Dawe. Franklin Township: Mrs. Philip Tiffany. Jackson Township: Mrs. Edgar Lashford. Dallas Borough: Mrs. Roscoe Smith. Sweet Valley: Mrs. Howard Post. Kingston Township: Shavertown, Mrs. Charles Mannear; Trucksville, Mrs. Earl Gregory, Jr., Mrs. David Mathers, co-chairman; Carverton, Mrs. Glenn Sickler. Bloodmobile At Borough School Donations Taken From Noon to 6 Red Cross Bloodmobile will collect blood donations Wednesday after- noon from noon until 6 p.m. at the Dallas Borough School. Canteen workers are: Mrs. Harvey Kitchen, Mrs. Herbert Griesing, Mrs. Donald D. Smith, Mrs. David Evans, Mrs. Mary Wright, Mrs. Henry Peterson, Mrs. Fred Welsh. Registrars: Mrs. William Krimmel, Mrs. Foster Starner, Mrs. William Wright. Nurses Aids: Mrs. Lester Shar- koski, Mrs. Mame Fredericks, Sandra and Carol Starner. Motor Corps: Mrs. Mrs. Butler Bower. Grey Ladies: Mrs. Alfred Root and Mrs. Edward Gilroy. Supplies for the canteen will be purchased locally at Smtih’s Econo- my Store. Robert Post, THE DALLAS POST TEN CENTS PER COPY-—TWELVE PAGES MARCH 21, 1958 Finds Own Truck Blazing At End 0f Routine Call Bill Evo. Non Sees Garage Going Up In Dense Smoke It was just a routine fire call for Bill Purcell Monday morning . . . . until he found that the fire was at the garage in Courtdale where one of his oil trucks was being overhauled. Shavertown fire apparatus was called to help Luzerne firemen ex- tinguish a blaze near the Sunset Diner. Bill, at the helm of the ap- paratus, saw flames shooting out of the garage next door, accompanied by dense clouds of smoke. Out of control for half an hour, “it gutted the interior of the United GMC Truck garage in spite of the best efforts of forty firemen. Bill's oil truck was completely destroyed. It was being rebuilt. A two-ton tractor trailer belonging to Ralph Swan was lost. Both vehicles were valued at about $15,000 apiece. Fire was prevented from spread- ing through the walls to the show- room, but the office suffered smoke and water damage. Chief Arnold Yeust and Mr. Pur- cell were among the ten Shavertown firemen who answered the call to help thirty volunteers from Luzerne. Tons of water were poured on the fire through four lines of hose draw- ing their water supply from Toby’s Creek. Damage to the garage is estimated at $40,000, partially covered by in- surance. Three trucks were in the garage at the time of the fire, all of them destroyed when the roof fell in and the blaze mounted, fed by accumulated grease and oil. Deadline For Art March 28 Prizes Offered To Junior High Pupils Painting contest for Dallas Area Junior High School students spon- sored by Junior and Senior divisions of the Dallas Woman's Club, will ‘be judged by Graydon Mayer. Three cash prizes! and three honorable mentions are offered both of the Junior High Schools. Pictures will be displayed in local business houses after judging has been completed. Deadline for submitting pictures is March 28. Awards will be pre- sented, and James Kozemchak will take pictures of winners April 1, prior to the regular meeting of Dal- las Junior Woman’s Club in the Library Annex. Prizes are donated by the Woman’s Club. Cooperating in the project are art instructors Ferne Whitby at the Township school, and Dorothy Withey at Westmoreland. Students have been working on their entries for some time. Any type of picture may be entered, in oil, water colors, crayon, or pastel, with no limit to the subject matter. Three Brothers Have Bad Luck Troubles Run In Kunkle Family FRE ii I Te 5 re little in from a Ronkle family have had a run of bad luck this past month, with Barry Miller, 4, still at General“Hospital with an infected throat. Kenneth, 5 years old the end of March, spent a long weekend at Nesbitt Memorial three weeks ago, with twenty-two sutures in his back to close a deep laceration. Gerald, two years old, fell out of his highchair and broke his leg above the ankle four days after Kenneth came out of the hospital. Bobby, 8, is at Dallas Township Elementary School and still intact. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller have had a series of troubles, beginning two years ago when Gerald was an infant. Gerald is the baby who was burned when a cigarette lighter was dropped into his blankets by two of his little brothers, as he lay on the front seat of the parked family car. Gerry had several operations to graft skin on head and hand. A section of electric fan was re- sponsible for Kenneth’s deep lacer- ation. The section was stored in the rear of a closet, well protected by heavy boxes, but Kenneth exca- vated. Please Move Your Cars So Snow Plows Can Work Cars parked along the curb in Dallas are hindering snow plows in their work. Norti Berti, Burgess, asks owners to move them. There have been many complaints. MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION To Present Members of Dallas Methodist Senior Choir will present “From Olivet to Calvary” at the 11 o’clock worship service. Reading from left to right, first row, are Luther Balliet, Mrs. Byron Mitchell, Mrs. Mrs. Thomas Moore, Harriet Howell, Ruth Baker, Diane Myers, and Richard Oliver. Second row: Mrs. Floyd Ide, Mrs. Alvin Shaffer, Dallas Methodist “Olivet To Calvary” Sunday Morning Sunday morning Mrs. Victor Cross, Mrs. Harry McAdam, Fern Cold- ren, director; Mrs. Lewis Reese, Mrs. J. C. Fleming, Mrs. Henry Welch, Mrs. Robert Parry. Third row: William H. Baker Sr. Donald Jones, N. E. Nelson, Donald Williams, Carl Balliet, Merle Edwards, Floyd Ide. Absent when the picture was taken: Mrs. Ben Davies, Jr., Alva Eggleston, Bruce S. Jenkins, Lois Totten, Louise Gibbs Wall, Marilyn Mosier. Choir To Give Olivet To Calvary At Service “Olivet to Calvary,” this pre-Easter season, the last few days of the Savior’s life, portrayed in beautiful music, simply and rev- erently’ by Dallas Methodist Senior Choir, under direction of Fern Cold- ren. The sacred concert will be given Sunday morning at 11, taking the place of the regular worship service. Soloists’ are Merle Edwards, | tenor; Donald Jones, baritone; and Lois Totten, soprano. The score is’ by J. H. Maunder. recalls in | The music carries the audience | Swough the entire series of events of Holy Week, beginning with the rejoicing of the multitude with hosannas and palms, and proceeding to the steps of Calvary. There is the view of the Holy | City from Mount Olivet, the lament, [the scene in the Temple, the lonely | walk back over the Mount at night, lin the first part of the musical pro- gram. Part II opens with the supper of the Passover, at which Jesus washes the feet of the disciples, and pro- nounces the new commandment, love one another, as the sign of true discipleship. The scene passes to the infinite pathos of the Garden of Gethse- mane, where Jesus is forsaken by his disciples at the sudden appear- ance of the hostile throng. Then, in dramatic sequence, the seizing by ruthless foes, the tumult before Pilate in the judgment hall, the carrying of the cross, the Crucifix- ion, and the triumph of Calvary, where soldiers fall back aghast at their deed. Members of the choir have been working for weeks on the music. It will be an impressive and beautiful offering. Second Graders Decorate Easter Eggs At Dallas Borough School Absorbed in their work, second grade children in Dallas Borough School splash paint on big Easter eggs; turning out, rainbows of color under direction of Mrs. Antoinette Mason. Dorothy T. Withey is art supervisor for Dallas Area Schools. but not identified by rows, are: Allan Brown, Mike Davis, Stanley Derby, Chuck In the group, Schweiss, Robert Achulff, Garris, Joseph Goode, Barry Markovich, Eric Mayer, Robert Parry, Carl Remley, J. Richards, Sutton, Linda Bishop, Shirley Brown, Diane Davies, Jeanette Evans, Sally Holvey, Betsy Mulhern, Cathy Reese, Diane Sandy Sedler, Carol Smith, and Sally Ziegenfus. Absent when the picture was taken were Paul Bacon and Diane Seymour. Ronnie Lucy Fleming, Denise. Garinger, (Photo. by Kozemchak) Westmoreland Band Concert Next Friday Night Here are the members of Westmoreland High School Band who will give their annual spring concert next Friday night at the high school audi- torium under the direction of Lester R. Lewis. First row, left to right — D. Rishell, S. Williams, C. Monka, S. DeRemer, D. McDonald, H. Sands, S. Vivian, D. Bolen, B. Raph, B. Chappele. Second row — S. Sprout, S. Clark, J. Ferguson, P. Jenkins, J. Strauser, B. Post, C. Ide, J. Ide, V. Pritchard, G. Graves, T. Borthwick, J. Wardell, M. Stookey, J. Anderson. Third row — Lester Lewis, director; J. Reed, V. Cobb, T. Metz, J. Rowlands, B. Barstow, A. Novicki, © S. Weigel, B. Sickler, N. Wolfe, D. Mathers, D. Anderson. Fourth row — D. Eck, P. Sinicrope, M. Bennett, B. Clause, P. Rose, F. Anderson, L. Hughes, C. Yeust, A. Cease. Fifth row — L. McCarty, R. VanEtten, W. Welch, J. Wertman, D. Williams, K. Evans, P. Dyer, J. Hirleman, J. Williams. Sixth row — J. Bradbury, M. Eck, B. Jenkins, S. Hinkle, B. Bergstrasser, R. Bennett, K. Richards, B. Kintzer, H. Smith. Seventh row — Wayne Schmoll, P. Lawson, W. D. Kimball. Chappell, D. Glahn, G. Williams, K. Sickler, D. Scott, | travels 10: St. | Brotherhood Monday evening. Men ‘the community. Monroe Denied | Admission To Tunkhannoc Two School Districts | Out Of Ten Refuse To Okay Application | Admission to Tunkhannock Joint Schools was denied Monroe Town- ship Thursday night, when two townships in the ten-way jointure turned down the application of Mon- roe Township School Board to be- : come part of that jointure. Since Monroe Township voted against Union District in November, repudiating a former popular vote to ally itself with the closer center of population toward Wilkes-Barre, the present arrangement with Dallas Borough, Dallas, Franklin and King- ston Townships, will cease ‘as of July 7, the first Monday in July. Monroe School District will be left | standing alone until it can make | other arrangements. | It has two school buildings suffi- | cient to house its students. Beau- | mont has the oldest cafeteria in the | Back Mountain, in operation before | any of the other schools offered this | service. | | | Kindergarten Bus In Ditch At Meadowcrest | principal Two Easy to Remember Phone Numbers 4-5656 or 4-7676 Wm. A. Rustin To Stay With ly Union District SL Three Teachers From Monroe Township Are Offered Contracts WILLIAM A. AUSTIN William A. Austin, supervising of ‘Monroe Township Schools before Monroe voted to join A kindergarten bus driven by Mr. ! Conklin of the Leon Emmanuel bus | lines, skidded into a ditch at Mead- with Dallas and Franklin Townships three years ago, more recently owcrest yesterday morning shortly | Supervisor of Elementary Education before 9, coming to rest against the | side of the ditch in such a manner that the regular exit door was closed. There were only three child- ren in the bus, picked up from | Bunker Hill and Checkerboard Inn! area. Mr. Conklin helped them out through the emergency door. Borough Clean-Up | Monday and Tuesday | Dallas Borough Clean-Up Week ' will be observed Monday and Tues- day March 24 and 25 when the] Borough Truck and Street Depart- | ment employees will visit every street to pick up the winter's ac- cumulation of refuse. Residents are asked to place ma- terials to be collected along .the curb line and in containers not ex- ceeding the capacity of a by jel! basket. They may place as many containers as they like, but larger than bushel basket size is incon- venient for the Street Department men to handle. Fullbright Scholar To Speak At St. Paul's Howard Harrison, holder of a Full- bright scholarship in Australia, who made a complete trip around the world in the course of getting to Australia and back again, will show slides and souvenirs obtained on his Paul's Lutheran of thé community are invited to attend. Mr. Harrison, son of Rev. Howard R. Harrison, ‘pastor of Huntsville Methodist Church, is a graduate of Wesleyan College and Syracuse University. While his father was minister of Shavertown Methodist Church, he attended local schools in i Nesbitt Auxiliary | Shavertown Branch, Nesbitt Aux- | iliary, will sew Wednesday morning | in the Library Annex at 10. Both | puppets and supplies will be made. | Thomas Carr, in the Dallas Area Jointure, has ' been offered a contract on a twelve ! month annual basis by the four dis- I tricts which will form the Union School District when the present jointure dissolves the first Monday in July. Three other teachers from Monroe | Township have also been offered contracts in the new system: Mrs. Oce B. Austin, Frederick Case, and Louise Ohlman, all three now teach- ing at the Township school. Mrs. Austin is at present teaching fifth grade; Mr. Case, formerly head { teacher at Beaumont, instructs in mathematics, and Miss Ohlman sup- ervises music. Walter Prokopchak, who was as- signed to Beaumont as head teacher last September, has been offered a contract, but he was not formerly a teacher at Beaumont, so is not in- cluded in the lit of those former Monroe Towhiship “ cachers ‘who will remain with the Union District. Passed unanimously by board members of Dallas Borough, Dallas Township, Kingston Township, and Franklin Township at the March 11 board meeting, was a motion to offer contracts to these teachers: Secondary: Mrs. Guida Taylor, Donald Evans, William Morgan, Miss Grace Barrall, Anthony Roan, Kenneth Kirk, and William Baran. Elementary: Mrs. Grace Fleming, Miss Mary Fleming, Mrs. Marie Bor- ton, Mrs. Ruth Michman, Mrs. Mar- lene Holly, Miss Joyce E. Martin, Mrs. Margaret Hughes, and Walter Prokopchak. Injures Three Fingers Working With Planer Kenny Thomas, ninth grade stu- dent at Dallas-Franklin-Monroe, in- jured three fingers of his right hand in a planer while working in shop Wednesday afternoon. He is a pa- tient at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, sent there by the Noxen Clinic be- cause of the poor condition of one finger which was almost completely | amputated. The other two fingers are in good condition, though minus their nails. Midget Cars On Display Here This is one of the midget racers that will be used this season on the Quarter Midget track at Dallas little cars made their appearance Outdoor Theatre. Two more of the in Dallas this week. The first, a DeSoto pace car, is on display in the lobby of Dallas Branch of Miners National. The other, a racer, is being exhibited at Boyd White's store on Main Street. Whether you are a driver, a s pectator, or not even interested in racing, you'll have to admit that the cars are still just about the cutest things on four wheels. y
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