Oldest Business is Institution In The Back Mountain THE DALLAS POST Two Easy Te Remember Phone Numbers 4-5656 or 4-7€76 VOL. 68, No. 24, FRIDAY, Library Auction Solicitation To Start Shortly Mrs. Frantz Names Chairmen For Annual Drive For Used Goods Heads of solicitation for the Lib- rary Auction have been appointed by Mrs. Charles Frantz. In each area, the designated chairman will ask workers. to help make the calls on residents. The first week in July will see trucks | der direction of Col. Herbert But- r, Commonwealth Telephone Com- “pany, picking up used furniture and other salable items from widely scattered areas in the Back Moun- tain, for the Twelfth Annual Library Auction, July 11 and 12 at the Barnyard. Chairmen of solicitation are: Mar- garet Wood and Mrs. J. S. Warkom- ski, Harveys Lake; Mrs. Herman Thomas, West Dallas; Mrs. Harold Titman, East Dallas; Mrs. Donald Davis, Dallas Borough; Mrs. Robert Ray and Mrs. J. H. Schaffhauser, Shavertown; Mrs. Fred Dingle, Trucksville; Mrs. Gordon Dawe, Leh- man; Mrs. Albert Torr, Goss Manor; Mrs. Ben Jones, Shrine View; Mrs. Floyd Sanders, Pioneer Avenue sec- tion of Dallas Township. » The Book Club annually assumes responsibility for general solicita- tion. The refreshment stand has asked »: this year, solicitors ask for no donations to the refreshment stand, as it is more practical to list such | donations on a master sheet and re- quest exactly the amounts needed. Baked goods, however, will be JUNE 13, 1958 SHERWOOD ‘WILSON Sherwood Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Wilson, « Sherbrook, Huntsville, was on: out of sixty- one in the graduating class at Penn- sylvania Military College, Chester, to be commissioned as second lieu- tenant when he re: ived his degree last Monday. Sherwood expects to | work in his Dad’s office at Wilkes- Barre Iron and Wire Works, Inc, this summer and r. port for military duty at Fort Benning, Ga., on No- vember 2. While at the Military Academy, Lom of the student Che Dome; stu- protography Sash, year- f the Rifle . the pistol American National ream, Military En; #5 Education Ass: asked for. Used furniture is the main item of solicitation by the committee. New | goods chairmen have their own so-! licitors. { rs. Frantz says: no pianos, no kittens. And no rummage. Each year the committee stresses that no rummage will be accepted, and each year residents send in ma- terials that cannot be sold. Used furniture in good shape, that | can be painted up for cottages, is | in good demand. The Odds and Ends | department will take used dishes. The Auction is for support of the | "Library. Two days of selling must | be enough <= insure the library ite yearly ‘maifitenance.” Auction "block | time is too valuable to waste on | items of no sale value. Solicitation will start within the week. | { Dog Poisoner Scores Riis Third Triumph “Tt was only a mongrel.” The dog poisoner in New Goss Manor must have hugged himself Monday night when he saw poor little Twinkles rushed to the dog hospital, stiffining in the fatal con- vulsions of strychnine poisoning. Dr. Post did his best, but it was too late. Twinkles is not the first. Mrs. Oliver Rome, Skyview Avenue, says that Bob Block’s pet, Emma, was poisoned in March, and that a dog helonging to' the Gobel family on Tunkhannock Highway showed the same characteristic symptoms of strychnine poisoning in April. Twinkles, the little mongrel, had endeared herself to the hearts of four children in the Rome family, ince coming to them from the Bit- benders last year. She was a spayed female who nightly accom- panied Mr. Rome as he exchanged pleasantries ~ with his neighbors, never straying far afield. Fractures Skull When He Falls Off Bike A small Shavertown boy who fell off a bicycle Friday afternoon is in Gerieral Hospital with a fractured skull, and will remain there as a patient for some days, according to his mother, Mrs. Robert Berlew, of 52 Ridge Street. Bobby, 9, came coasting down Center Street hill struck a stone, and was thrown violently on his head. He has a hairline fracture, and multiple bruises and brush burns. Two black eyes are slowly opening. Richard Oliver Again Heads Methodist Choir Richard Oliver was reelected pres- ident of Dallas Methodist Choir Wednesday night at the annual A hor party held in the church so- cial rooms. Don Williams is vice president, Diane Myers secretary, and Edith Shaffer treasurer. A wed- ding present was given to Marilyn Mosfier Yale, recently married to | The newly organized | Albert Yale. group is planning a Womanless Wedding for September production. Send Your Scores To George McCutcheon Reserve Officers Pershing Rifles. Lehman an. Narrow The “zap Board Action Brings Union Within Reach Lehman and Jackson Township school directors signed an agree- ment for a larger jointure with Lake-Noxen Tuesday evening at the June board meeting. Ross Township miEbers, not Shaving ao full quota présent, voted to mold a special meeting to decide the matter. Lester Squier, supervising prin- cipal at Lehman, took the signed agreement to Lake-Noxen Schools, where Robert Z. Belles, supervising principal, expected to submit it to his beard members last night. - Off the record, board members have ex- pressed themselves in favor. Plants And Produce Will Need Shrubs, Perennials Loren Keller and Mrs. Margaret Dykman, chairman of Plants and Produce for the Twelfth Library Auction, ask Back Mountain gard- eners to look over their gardens and pot interesting looking plants for sale July 11 and 12. Mr. Keller is a well known Ide- town florist, active at the Plants and Produce Booth for years. Mrs. Dykman has been Mrs. James Hut- chison’s right-hand man at the Booth during the years when Mrs. Hutchison was chairman. The com- mittee will welcome pachysandra, African violets, bulbs, shrubs, house plants, ivy, lilacs, . rock garden plants, foxgloves, campanula, lupins, shasta daisies, columbine. Mrs. Dykman asks that plants be lifted as soon as possible, to- insure good transplanting results for auc- tion buyers. Sisters From Province Are In Retreat At Misericordia, One hundred Sisters of Mercy | from the Scranton Province, includ- ing Harrisburg, Long Island ‘and | British Guiana, are in retreat at | College Misericordia, the: mother | house of the Province, where they | will remain until next Saturday. A | number of other religious, who : are still occupied in teaching elementary classes in parochial schools of the Province, will make their retreat later in the summer. Sarah Reese Ferguson Plans Piano Recital Sarah Reese Ferguson will pre- sent her students in a piano recital | tonight at 8 o'clock in the Dallas Memorial Library Annex, Main | Street, Dallas, assisted by Anne- | Jane Layaou, reader. The following will participate: Donna Belle Priebe, Beverly Eck, : Pamella Baker, William Baker, Jr.,' Sandra Taite, Diane Recicar, Anne | | L. Miller, Virginia Recicar, Miriam | Mohr, Gerald A. Miller, Peggy Reese, Barbara Daubert, Danny Sinicrope, John O'Malia, Robert L. Dolbear, Jr., Dorothy Eck, Jerry Lukasavage, Linda ‘Woolbert, Gloria Dolbear, Karen L. Walk, Patricia Rood, Ron- Teenage and Senior Teeners man- agers should see that their reports of games are sent to George Mec- Cutcheon as soon after each game as possible. ’ ald Sincicrope, Betty Mannear, | ald Sinicrope, . Betty Mannear, | Cutcheon, Marilyn Eck, Brenda! | Clause, Nancy Wolfe and Evelyn | Oechard. Graduates Show. Persons or organizations in- Standing room only was the order of the evening at Dallas Area School Board meeting Tuesday night, when apprehensive parents crowded the Township high school library to pro- test against State laws requiring school bus service to be confined to pupils living outside the mile and a half zone for grade school stu- dents, two miles for high school students. Andrew Kozemchak -car- ried the torch for Overbrook Ave- nue residents, James Shoop for Goss Manor. GILBERT D. TOUGH Plans for the fourteenth annual Back Mountain Horse Show have : been completed and prize lists sent | to exhibitors. The July 4th show | this year ‘will have preliminary events the evening of July 3rd, ac- cording to show’ co-chairmen Myron | S. Baker and Gilbert D. Tough. Starting . Thursday evening at 6 | there will be five classes of the show | entitled “Rodeo Races and Time Events.” This will be followed by an outdoor Western Square Dance, with Red Jones calling; music by Panky Stolarick’s orchestra. One admission charge will admit to both the Rodeo Races and Square Dance with children twelve years of .age and under admitted {ree. Ervin Connors is in charge’ of tickets for Thursday night, assisted by Arthur Major and David Eddy. Re- freshment stands will be in opera- tion. The July 4th show will start at 9:30 a. m. with an hour-long parade, originating in the Oak: Hill section of Lehman Township. Walking par- ticipants will join in near the Leh- man Country Club as the parade continues up Route 115 to Lehman Center. ' Some -of the parade en- tries are antique cars, driving horses, the Marine Color Guard from ‘Wyoming, a color guard from Red Rock, school bands, fire companies, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, a kitchen band, a sack-dress float, im- personation of Elvis Presley, a float by the Back Mountain Horsemen's Club, float by the Friendship Class of the Lehman Methodist Church representing its annual. Flower terested in participating in the par- ade are asked to contact Stephen Schmaltz, Oak Hill; Robert Disque, Lehman, or Warren Mekeel, Leh- man. At 10:30 a. m., the show will get under way with the Led Line Pony Class, one of the most popular classes of the show with entrants seven years old or under, pony to be led by parent or child. At noon barbecued chicken plat- ters will be served by Ladies’ Aux- iliary of the Fire Company. Mrs. Russell Ide is chairman. Chairmen Baker and Tough list classes for July 3 and 4: July 3, 6 p. m.—Class 1, Pick-up Race; Class 2, Boot Race; Class 3, | Knock Down and Out; MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Embattled Residents Storm School Board To Air Andy stands with his arms folded, ' are James Hutchison, John Wardell, | school board sessions. ns Transportation Problems RRR Mrs. Arlene third from the right. His brother Charles Mannear, William Clewell, Rood, Dallas Borough first grade Iggy is third from the left, in the group standing in front of the near- er bookcase. Henry Hess, Franklin Township, chairman of the Trans- portation Committee is seated just below Iggy, and next to him is George Dymond, long time pillar of | and Davis. A shadow at the extreme left | represents The Dallas Post. | Andy Kozemchak said he hoped | | the protest would get plenty of] publicity. “It will,” responded Frank Town- | teacher, is hidden behind a parent | standing in front of the bookcase. All parents appeared genuinely perturbed about the dangers of small children walking the high- ways in this age of speed. They seemed not so much concerned with the distance to be covered, as with Franklin Township school board. | end, refraining from glancing at the | {}, danger. All of them stated their The next three are Dallas Township members, William Wright, R. E. Neal, and Francis Ambrose. At the near table, left to right, MYRON S. BAKER Lehman Plans Parade As Feature Of Fourteenth Annual Horse Show Clover Leaf Race; Class 4, Scoop Shovel Race; Class 5, Barrel Cutting. July 4, 10:30 a. m.—Class 6, Led Line Pony Class; Class 7, Horse- manship, English Tack, for children to 18; Class 8, Five-gaited; Class 9, Western; intermission; Class 10, Class 11, Horsemanship. Western Tack, for children under 18; Class 12, Road Hack; Class 13, Ponies under 14.2; Class 14, Conformation Hunters; Class 15, Three-gaited; Class 16, Open Parade Class; Class 17, Hunter Hack; Class 18, Western Cloverleaf; Class 19, Horsemanship, English Tack, for children 12 years and un- der; Class 20, Working Hunters; Class 21, Walking Horse; Class 22, Park Riding, Ponies; Class 23, Pair Class; Class 24, Balloon Race. Persons interested in entering the show who have not received prize lists, please contact Myron Baker or Gilbert Tough; entries close June 20. Persons desiring box seats con- tact Howard Ehret, chairman, Rev. Kenneth O'Neill or Francis Stol- arick. : Robert Disque, Lehman, is general chairman of the fourteenth annual Lehman Horse Show, Tinsley Is Appointed To Township Police Leslie Tinsley has been appointed a special policeman in Dallas Town- ship to assist Chief of Police James Gansel and Asst. Chief Irwin Cool- baugh. He will work only on special assignments: Mr. Tinsley has been employed by the Vulcan Iron Works for the past twenty years. He is a son-in-law of Chris Eipper, former Dallas Township School Director. A a A A LL LAE Toastmasters Plan To Hold Steak Fry Back Mountain Toastmasters’ Club will thold a steak fry at the home of Ward Jacquish, Oak Hill, on Thursday. Following dinner, a reg- ular meeting will be held with Don Evans as master of ceremonies and William Evans, topic master. There will be five speakers: Wil- liam Frey, William Hughes, Ward Jacquish, Robert Laux and Paul Monahan. s ’ shadow. | Glimpsed in the background is a | teacher at Westmoreland, Miss | Esther Saxe, a frequent visitor at Muriel Monahan, 1958 graduate! of College Misericordia, is pictured with her' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul | Monahan of R. D. 4 Dallas, at a reception for graduates and their parents held at the college. The reception followed a hooding ceremony last Saturday evening, when Sister Mary Celestine, R.S.M;, | college president, presented - each | graduate. with the academic hood symbolic. of a bachelor’s degree. College Misericordia graduated 163 students. Monday night, Most Rev. Jerome D. Hannan, D.D., Bish- | op of Scranton, conferring degrees at commencement exercises in Irem | Temple. Miss Monahan prepared for a teaching career in home economics. She received a bachelor of science After The Hooding Ceremony case with earnestness, some with vehemence, some in more reason- able terms. See school board story for details. degree in home economics and gen- eral science. While at College Mis- ericordia, she was active in the Catholic Students Mission Crusade, the Education Club, Home Econo- mics Club, National Federation of Catholic College Students, and’ So- dality. Barbara Clark, daughter of Mrs. Olive Clark, Dallas R. D. 3, gradua- ted with the degree of bachelor of science in elementary education. She was a member of Catholic Students Mission Crusade, Educa- tion Club, and National Federation of Catholic College Students. Graduating from evening classes with degrees in elementary educa- tion, were Freda Snyder Hughey, Dallas R. .D. 3, and Alice Morgan Yaple, Saginaw Street. {Doctor Bodycomb Of School From Start In Year 1813 Dallas Borough - Kingston Town- ship school board members marked the break-up of - their individual | school ‘jointure on the first Mon- | day in June, when they met with wives and solicitors at Irem Coun- try Club for a farewell dinner be- | fore ‘embracing the Union School | District which will become effective | July 7. Dr. Robert Bodycomb was asked to develop a history of Dallas schools from the first session in | 1813 in the Philip Kunkle Barn, | the building of the first log school- house, the formation of a high school association, and progress up to the present era of jointure ahd union. | | Dr. Bodycomb read this paper: The first school in Dallas Town- | ship was held in 1813 in the barn | of Philip Kunkle on the present | Chris Eipper property. The first Sketches History school house was built on land given by Philip Shaver where the present Dallas Borough: School now stands. The logs from which this building was erected in 1816 were hewn by William Honeywell, Philip Shaver, William Hunt and John Honeywell. After the passing of a law in 1834 providing for free schools, the Dallas log school house was replaced by a red school house on the corner of what. is now Franklin Street and Huntsville Road in Dallas Bor- ough. . John Whitney, the teacher, helped to make the long backless ‘benches into comfortable seats with backs and desks for writing and holding books. -He: taught until duty called him to the Civil War. Borough School Formed After. the war, new educational ideas began to creep in. At this (Continued on Page 2) § cight-weeks course will start under TEN CENTS PER COPY — TWELVE PAGES Drunken Driver Runs In Creek Orr Has Previous Bad Driving Record Arnold C. “Sonny” Orr, unem- ployed, Demunds Road, was fined $10 plus $5 costs when he pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driv- ing Saturday before Justice-of-the- Peace George Prater of Fernbrook. He was released under $500 bail on "a second charge of failure to report an accident. Orr has been in trouble before and was fined $100 and costs a year ago on a charge of drunken driving. Orr was the object of an inten- sive police search after his automo- bile was found on its side aban- doned in Trout Run along the De- munds Road on Thursday night. Although police made several | trips to the home of his mother, | Mrs. Ernest Wilson, and had been | informed that he was not home, | they later found him at home Friday | night where he told them he had i been taken by a friend and that he | had slept all day Friday. The accident occurred Thursday night at 10:45 when Orr narrowly avoided hitting two young people along a stretch of the Demunds Road where there have been a dozen similar night accidents in the past year. Neighbors ran to his assistance when they heard the crash and the two young people calling for help. Neighbors said Orr was so drunk that he could not stand up and re- | fused to sit down so that he had to be supported by bystanders, until a buddy picked him up in his car and took him home. Police Course Is Postponed Auxiliary Training To Begin July 10 A course for training of auxiliary police sponsored, by Back Mountain Civilian Defense, scheduled to start | weekly sessions next Thurday in the Dallas Township school, will be | postponed until July 10, when the | it’s the danger direction of Frank Finn. Members | (will meet weekly for three hours to] i rece instruction in'-.einergency | | police: work, handling of traffic pro- | i cedure in case of accidents, etc. Chief Russell Honeywell and Dr. Robert Bodycomb are CD heads for | Dallas Borough, Clarence Laidler for the Township. Mr. Laidler arranged | for use of Township school facilities, and installation of a two-way radio for use in emergency communica- tion, appearing before the joint school board at the May meeting to obtain permission. Dallas Ambulance To. Collect Coin Cards Charles Flack, chairman of Dallas Community Ambulance Drive, re- minds contributors that name and address must be written ‘on the coin cards, to insure voting at next year’s annual meeting. He will be at Dallas Borough Building tomor- row from 1 to 3 to receive coin cards from solicitors and donors. Cards are now due. The last quar- ter in the $4 card was presumably filled last Saturday. Sunday’s board meeting was the last of the summer, with authority granted to officers to sign routine checks. : A vote of thanks was given- to Dr. H. G. Gallagher for assistance at recent accidents. There were eleven ambulance calls during May. Leslie Barstow, chairman of the board, asked crew chiefs to stress again to residents the importance of calling a doctor at the time of, a serious accident, thus saving time when the ambulance arrives, and | relieving the ambulance crew of | serious responsibility. . i After Accident On Bruised and still a bit stiff from injuries received early Monday morning in an automobile accident on the Lake Highway, Justice-of- the-Peace Leonard Harvey returned Tuesday night from Nesbitt Memor- ial Hospital and is recuperating at his home on Woodlawn Avenue. The Justice-of-the-Peace escaped serious injury at 12:15 Monday morning when his 1951 Oldsmobile sedan went out of control and struck a service pole directly op- posite the spot where Edward Jan- jigian was killed a week ago Wed- nesday. A passing motorist discovered Harvey's badly damaged car beside the highway with Harvey seated in a dazed condition in the rear seat. The motorist notified police and Dallas Community Ambulance. Harvey claimed that he had been forced off the highway by another car which pulled out ahead of him | while he was attempting to pass, | but Jerome Stesney, 383 Shoemaker | Street, Swoyerville and his compan- Township Folk Complain To School Board Highways Are Too Hazardous In This Age Of High Speed Dallas Area School Board mem- bers found the board room crowded with parents when they pushed their way past the throngs to take their seats at the Board tables Tues- day night. Dallas Township parents protes- ted against proposed bus routes which threatened to cut off trans- portation for children who live with- in the walking limits prescribed by the State. “We had it before, why can’t we still have it?” was the burning question. Kingston Township and Dallas Borough parents, whose children also walk within limits, were either not present, or not vocal. : William A. Austin, elementary supervisor, explained that bus routes at this stage are tentative, and that last Friday's dry-run did not neces- sarily locate all children in the school buildings to which they were taken for registration. New Goss Manor residents found an unexpected champion in Andrew Kozemchak, at the other end of the Township on Overbrook Road. Andy said that up to date, New Goss Manor residents had gotten most of the publicity for their protests on the proposed curtailment of school bus service and that he hoped for plenty of publicity for other sec- tions. New Goss Manor is within sight of the school, half a mile away. James Shoop, New Goss Manor, called attention to dangerous high- ways. Mrs. Tait, Ferguson Avenue and Overbrook, said that her child- ren had always been at Township and had friends there. If her child- ren were transferred, they would be deprived of bus service. Iggy Kozem- chak, Overbrook, asked, “How about when it snows?” . A Fernbrook citizen said, “It isn’t the distance to Shavertown school, of traffic.” Mr. Achuff, of the same section, said he had been told pupils were not per- mitted to take lunch to Shaver- town school, which would double the daily walk. John Thayer, Over- brook stressed the dangers: . = «andy, once more taking the iicor, said he had worked for Union Dis- trict and wondered now how the district could get de-unionized. “We bought it” he said, “and now it's our sour grape and we gotta choke on\it.” A special meeting was set for June 24 at 7 p. m. when residents may again state their case. Mr. Austin said that within a week he could come up with some of the answers. Henry Hess, chair- man of transportation, stated that the matter would be given careful attention. The State permits partial reim- bursement to school districts for bus service to elementary children living outside a mile and a half radius from a school, secondary children, outside a two-mile limit. A school district may transport all children if it wishes, but with loss of appropriation from the State for such service. Half of the chil- dren in the Dallas Area Schools are travelling by bus. The bill for com- plete bus service would be approxi- mately $100,000, twice what it is at present. All board members listened sym- pathetically to parents who stressed dangers of the highways. The un- spoken question was, What will we use for money ?! Any arrangement for reallocation of children during the next two years is a stop-gap. There will be plenty of classroom space in the future, when the new high school becomes a reality, and student bodies are again reshuffled. Some buildings at present are more crowded than others. Justice of The Peace Is Stiff, Lake Highway ion, Jean Kazoskas, 800 Walnut Street, Luzerne, voluntarily sought out police to tell them that the Justice-of-the-Peace narrowly miss- ed hitting them and a New York State station wagon at the Idetown traffic light. Stesney said that he was driving at 45 miles an hour when Harvey's car, coming from the direction of Harveys Lake, cut in ahead of him at a high rate of speed. A veteran State Policeman Syl- vester Orland who assisted Chief of Police James Gansel, Assistant Chief Irwin Coolbaugh and /Officer Alvin Shaffer at the accident said: “This accident was long overdue and re- called that Harvey not long ago ran through a State Police road block at high speed while police were search- ing for escapees from Lewisburg Prison. He also said the Justice of the Peace ran through a red light in Luzerne. Before the accident, Harvey had been spending the evening at Har- veys Lake. v
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