{ Yire Alive, Safe . River, is confident that he is living. @ac flood poured into the mine tun- ' RL Feel Confident Thirty-seven men made their way . Mrs. Stewart Creasing, Demunds, = # 70 YEARS A NEWS Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain PAPER THE DALLAS POS ~ TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 ORchard 4-5656 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION TEN CENTS PER COPY — TWELVE PAGES | VOL. 70, No. 5, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1959 ST CHANG] 2S PU Trappzd Miners ~ Hunlock Creek Wife, " Demunds Aunt, Have Faith In Rescue - A Hunlock Creek woman whose husband is among the twelve miss- ing men trapped in the Knox Coal mine by the raging Susquehanna Equally confident is'a woman from Demunds, whose nephew was work- ing s'de by side with his friend from Hunlock Creek. Joseph Gizenski, Hunlock Creek, and Eugene Ostrowski, Wanamie, were drilling rock on the day shift Thursday at noon. Both men had been transferred from the night shift a few days previously. painfully to safety when the surg- 1 through a gaping hole ground in the river bottom. Jagged ice freighted the flood, swirling through the mine corridors, crashing against the pillars, overtaking the fleeing men. “Survivors reported seeing three bodies floating in the maelstrom. Twelve men are among the miss- ing. heard the news of the disaster Thursday at 2 p. m. over the radio. ~ dister, Mrs. Ostrowski, called he telephone. Mrs. Creas- + immediately to the scene. = renski heard the news at about tne same time. Mrs. Creasing and Mrs. Gizenski are friends of long standing. . Mr. Creasing and Mr. Gizenski have a well-drilling partnership. Mr. Gizenski has two occupations, well driller: and rock-driller, working at well-drilling after coming home erly of Dallas, Susguehanna President JOHN T. MACKENROW Local Men Are Board Members Mackenrow Elected Susquehanna Head Two local men and a former Dal- las resident were reelected as offi- cers and a’ director at the annual reorganization meeting of Susque- hanna Savings and Loan Associa- tion held this. week in the associa- tion’s offi==~ at 31 West Market Street, W... 2. Baie They are John T. Mackenrow, Pioneer Avenue, who was elected secretary; Walter S. Black, Hunts- ville, vice president and comp- troller, and Herbert L. Lundy, form- now of Pompano, Florida, director. Other officers elected and officially installed include Michael Bonchon- sky, president; Tom Hart, chairman sity undergraduates ‘accompany him. Petting his education by the G. L | from the mines. 4 + “Joe would know how to reach a safe place,” said Mrs. Gizenski. “Joe has twenty-two years. He worked every day, going to diffesont, miness when ever he wassneeded.”......,... Also among the twelve missing men is Charles Featherman, Koons- llc Road, Muhlenburg. Crispall Wins Degroz At State 2 To Take Cincinnati . City Eng'neer Jeb = “ Elvin Leroy Crispell, son of Mr. “and Mrs. Earl Crispell, Noxen, grad- uated from Pennsylvania State Uni- versity on Sunday, winning a BS degree in engineering. He cxpects to be locat~d in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, where he will assume duties of City Engineer February 9. His wife, the former Nancy Lee Hall, ‘and his daughter Debbie Lee “will | The family has! been living for the past four years | E38 at State College, where Mr. Crispell & been materially assisted toward | Bill of Rights. .. He spent four years in the Air Force, serving as Staff Sergeant at | the radar installation at Williams | Bay, Wisconsin. It was in Wisconsin that he met his future wife. | Crispell graduated in 1950 from Noxen High School before jointure was made with Lake. He played on | the baseball team. | | Brooks Wins Numerals | At Princeton University | . Scott A. Brooks, son of Mr. and | Mrs. J. Archbald Brooks, West Dal- las, is among 187 Princeton Univer- | from thirty | states and the District of Columbia, | to be awarded football insignia for | their efforts over the course of the 1958 season. Scott won Secondary | Freshman numerals, according to an | announcement made this week by R. | 2 Kenneth Fairman, Director of Ath- | letics. been in the mines for | of the board; Harry Goldberg, vice president; George Sailus, execulive vice president; Dr. J. C. DeSanto, treasurer; Joseph Serling, solicitor. |“ ‘John ". Mackenrow, North Pion- | eer Avent, hak been Lr 4 resident of | the Back Mountain area for many | years and is active in community + affairs. 'He is a veteran of the First World War, a. member of the Amer- ‘ican Legion, Post 395, and the | Wilkes-Barre Rotary: Club. + Mr. | Mackenrow owns and operates John | T. Mackenrow & Company and has | been affiliated with the construction | trade in Northeastern Pennsy.ivan'a | for the past fifteen years. | Mr. Black has been active in a circles for many’ years | having been with Miners National | Bank and the Pennsylvania Depart- | ment of Banking for a number of | years. He is president of Back Mountain Toastmasters’ Club and | annually serves on the New Goods | Committee of Back Mountain Me- { morial Library Auction. 1% Mr, Lundy, former Dallas Town- | ship tax collector and owner of Lundy’s well know Dallas restau- rant, was active in all phases of civic and fraternal life in the Back Mountain area before moving to Florida where he spends the winters. Elected to the board for a four- year term were Michael Bonchonsky and Attorney Joseph Serling. In addition to these two directors and completing the board are the fol- lowing: Leo J. Bergsmann, Dr. J. C. DeSanto, Harry Goldberg, Tom Hart, J. T. Karambelas, Leroy Landau, Herbert A. Lundy, John T. Mackenrow, Herbert Shrader and E C. ‘Wideman, Jr. Observing that our total assets were now $7,603,977.18, Mr. Hart chairman of the board, took occa- sion to make note of the fact that during the year Susquehanna Sav- ings increased its assets by $1,112,- 303.08 or in excess of 17%, that the association made 310 loans dur- ing the year and paid dividends totaling $177,258.49. He also made known that during the year Susque-, hanna Savings has become an auth- orized agent of the Federal Housing Administration and that many new home owners were assisted in ob- taining home ownership. ' High School Kids ~~ A group of ten Westmoreland High School students who missed ‘the school bus Wednesday morning while waiting out the cold in Helen's ‘Restaurant in central Dallas, attract- ed considerable attention as they marched down the highway toward school, displaying a placard: “Westmoreland Refuses portation.” «The six boys and four girls ex- pected to catch the bus as it came ‘through Dallas, but missed it. ‘They called the school to ask for transportation. fi rats “The bus is due in central" Dallas at 8:05, Starting from Birndale Trans- Road a few minutes earlier. Miss Bus, Hike From Dallas To Westmoreland Dallas Post, beginning at 9:30. Intercepted at 9:45 at the junc- tion of 309 and 115, three quarters of a mile from Dallas, the students stated their case, but did not divulge their names. ‘We're minors, re- member ?”’ Told that names would be avail- able by a simple check at West- moreland, they said that was OK. Offered a ride to the high school, they refused it. ; Said they were pretty cold, but it was a nice sunshiny day, and the walking was good. At 11:10 they arrived at West- moreland High School, minus the sign. Classes start at 8:30. A number of residents phoned the $00 i i 3 RS . / Fire Destroys Trailer Home At Beaumont » Howard Smiths Lose Everything In Sunday Afternoon Blaze Fire, believed to have originated | near a refrigerator, completely de- | stroyed the trailer home of Mr. and | Mrs. Howard Smith at Beaumont on | Sunday afternoon and left the little family of three with nothing except the clothing they wore. Kunkle and Harveys Lake Fire | Companies responded to the alarm immediately but were unable to do more than save the home of Mr. Smith's father, Arthur Smith, near which the trailer was parked not far from Hilbert’'s Hatchery. Mr. Smith, an employee of How- ard Isaacs, Trucksville, discovered the fire at 3:15 shortly after he had been in the trailer to have a sand- wich and then gone to visit his father next door. No more than sev- en minutes elapsed between the time | | Mrs. Smith, the former Joyce Mec- Mullen, ‘with her two-year old son was spending the afternoon with her mother, Mrs. David McMullen. When Mr. Smith returned to the trailer and opened the door he found the entire interior enveloped in flames. Several neighbors including his brother-in-law Clayton Taylor and Bob Brown ran to his assistance while others notified the fire com- pany but the flames were too far advanced for them to save anything. The loss was partly covered by insurance. The family is now living with Mrs. Smith's mother until they can ob- tan a new home. Clothing, however, will be welcomed, and the family will be grateful for it. Mrs. Smith wears size 20 dresses, and Mr. Smith wears size 14% shirts and 30 trous- ers. The baby requires warm cloth- ing for a 2-year old. Winntyr On Spindaw MRS. HATTIE A. STEVENS Mrs. Hattie A. Stevens, Villa St. Cyrils, 1111 St. John’s Avenue, Highland Park, Ill, will observe her 90th birthday anniversary on Sun- day. 7 Mrs. Stevens, a former resident of Dallas where her family for many years operated the famous old Raub’s Hotel, was a charter member and first president of Dallas Order of Eastern Star. Her son Rolland, former Dallas merchant, now a manufacturer with plants at Green Isle, Minn, and Battle Creek, Mich., writes from his home at Aptakisic Farm, Prairie View, Ill.: “Mother had one bad set back and was in the hospital for several weeks under an oxygen tent, but she pulled out of it to the amazement of physicians and nurses. “Actually she has been very good ever since and is remarkable; she walks to the dining room to get her meals, dresses herself and is very gay and hapny, and her mind is very alert. She sews, crochets, watches television and reads all papers and magazines. “She is very frail, but still erect and weighs only 90 pounds.” Yibilands Rssociation Meeting Feb. 8 At 2 P.M. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Dallas Community Am- bulance Association will follow the general meeting called for Sunday, February 8 at 2 p. m. at Dallas Borough Building. The special membership meeting is for reception of the report of a joint committee of ambulance and fire associations, to implement, if possible, a joint fund drive for 1959. Plant Moving To Orange Crown Coach Company, now loca- ted in Wyoming, is moving into new quarters just outside of Orange in the property formerly operated ‘by Thomas Borgese. ! \ he left and the discovery of the fire. Lehirh Valley Station and Freight House Set Many citizens of Dallas think old buildings belonging to a fast closing era, deserve a face lifting. For many an older resident, they hold fond memories of the arrival and departure of four pas- senger trains daily. But a younger generation remembers none of that and would like to see the Lehigh Valley Rail- way station and freight house made attractive with a coat of bright red paint and wearing white flower boxes beneath each window. They feel, if center of Dallas, they cen be made colorful and attractive with surrounding grass clipped in park-. like fashion and unsightly rusting signs removed. Dallas Junior Woman's Club has discussed the reno- these venerable vation of these in the nature of tioned “After”. Before the buildings must remain in the buildings as a community project. This photograph, taken by James Kozemchak, is a ‘‘Before” shot. Next January we hope we can publish one of the same scene cap- v Charles Gregory, Veleran Barber, Has Served Six Generations During 50 Years You’d hardly believe it if you watched him cultivating his garden .on a summer afternoon or chatted | with him while he is cutting hair | in his shop on Main Street on one of these winter mornings . . . but Charlie Gregory has been in the barber business in Dallas for more than fifty years! Many Years Ago | two-story brick building which he | built in 1927. It was the third brick . | on Main Street, only the old First | National Bank and the Frantz build- jin antedated it. With completion of the building | Charlie added a line of men’s furn- | ishings and shoes. For many years | the late Earl McPherson, a native In fact he celebrated his fiftieth | year as a proprietor last October 1. | That was the anniversary of the day when he purchased the little shop | on Main Street from John Lepart | and went into business, for himself | just eight days before his nineteenth birthday. | i i Since that time Charlie bas min- istered to the tonsorial needs of , thousands of Back Mountain resi- dents—the great and the near great —of this and of other generations. Numbered among his customers | | of Nova Scotia and a former buyer | for Boston Store was manager of | this department. But increased space was needed for the barber shop and the restaurant next door, so Charlie sold” the clothing business in order | to devote more time to his garden, which he loves, and barbering. Through the years his wife, the | former Althea Garinger has en- | couraged him in all things except his gardening where he tries all new | varieties, does complicated grafting, | and works too hard. are members of many families who have stopped in his shop for four, and six generations to be “slicked up” before some important event in their lives, first day of school, graduation, parties, wed- dings, family reunions and funera's. The Honeywell family probably ho'ds the record. They have been Charlie’s customers for six genera- tions! Charlie. who was born in Dallas and still lives in the house on Mill Street where he was born, started first in the barber business as a lather boy of fourteen for the late Ira Cooke who operated a shop in a small building where the late C. A. Frantz built the brick store, now occupied by Boyd White. Later he went to work for Art Gross in the same capacity and finally with John Lepart. a barber who had come here ‘rom Hoboken, N. J. Men Shaved Twice A Week In those days more customers came in to be shaved than for a haircut. Most men were shaved twice a week, yet some like the late George R. Wright, first president of Dallas National Bank came in daily. Beards and mustaches were plentiful in the old days. So were straight razors and razor straps. It was an art to wield a razor—and another art to keep.it sharp. And as for the young fry, it was another art to keep at a distance from the razor strap. But when a man wanted a “good shave” by a barber with a light touch—followed by bay rum and a hot towel—he went, to the barber shop. five Scores of those customers bought their own shaving mugs. The black- smith picked one illuminated with an anvil and forge; the butcher picked one with a bull's head; while the fraternal man picked one with the familiar Masonic emblems or the three links of the Odd Fellows. Those mugs were used only for | the owner's lather, and the racks | along the walls of Charlie’s shop | were filled with them. The advent of the safety razor made men more conscious of their beards end for a time improved rather than hurt the | barber business. But finally the old straight edge gave way to progress and the color- ful mugs on Charlie's shelyes were used less and less. were returned to their owners. | They have two daughters and four | arindiriidren. Mrs. Samuel Ashley, | Ledgeways, has a daughter, and | Thelma, now Mrs. John Gildea, { Kingston, has three boys. Thelma Charles Gregory stands in front | was a sergeant in the Marine Corps of his o'd barber shop on Main during the War. Street. The structure gave way in | Yes, there is satisfaction in being 1927 to the modern two-story brick | a barber in a small town. You meet which now houses the business. | the great and the near great—pecople a i ? ~ | you have served and loved for six ally to the transformation of the generations barber shop into a part-time beauty shop. | Instead of waiting until Spring for | Two Dial Offices a haircut, men and boys began com- ing in every month and every other week for haircuts! Today Charlie's shop is probably busier than at anytime in its history. And there are some days when no- body asks for a shave. Crew cuts and all types of fancy cuts keep the barbers busy! But as he grows: older, Charlie likes to look back at the old days when his shop, like the postoffice, was the center for community com- munications. Great, and Near Great Among the stalwarts of another day who gathered there were Harry Anderson, editor of The Dallas Post; Franklin Levenworth, first cashier of First National Bank; Gus Kuehn, druggist; Phillip Raub, owner of Raub’s Hotel; C. A. Frantz, mer- chant; B. W. Brickel, bank director and undertaker; J. J. Ryman, mer- chant and owner of the home where the Library is now located; William Whipp, Lowry Yaple, William Monk, William Waters, Oliver Fisher and. scores of others who left their im- | print on village affairs. ,Charlie remembers ‘them well— the late Frank Morris, schoolmaster and postmaster; Dr. Henry M. Laing, beloved physician and amateur box- er, for whom the fire company is named; Charles Cooke, neer, Reese Isaacs, Will Norton, Oliver Roushey and the Kirkendall family. Just the other day as he trimmed the fuzzy hair of a 3-months-old baby boy, he recalled that this was the fourth Robert Hislop who had occupied his chair. The little chap was the sixth generation of the Honeywell family to come to his shop! He had trimmed the hair of the And the others, now highly prized great, great, great grandfather, Con- as antiques, were destroyed in order rad “Coon” Honeywell; his great, to make more room in the shop. | great, grandmother, Mrs. Nellie His- The vacant place in the barber lop; his grandfather, Robert Hislop chair, held for so many generations | by the man who needed a shave, Jr.; and his father. Robert Hislop, III, who is now with the Army in was now filled by a new and prettier Mexico. customer. Girls came in to have As the years progressed Charlie's . . . i civil engi- Will Be Enlarged Included in Commonwealth Tele- | phone Company's 1959 construction | will be the expansion of its Harveys | Lale exchange and the construction | of an unattended dial office at Cen- termoreland, according to J. N. ‘Landis, district manager. Construction of both projects is expected to begin this summer. The present Harveys Lake exchange will be enlarged with a building addition doubling its present size. An order for 200 lines—500 terminals of ad- ditional central office equipment has already been ordered and delivery is scheduled for next January. The addition will: provide service im- provements, a regrading of existing service and allow for new installa- tions in the lake area. Mr. Landis noted that the new Centermoreland unattended dial of- fice will be located on the road be- tween Centermoreland and Orange. Central office equipment constitu- | ting 100 lines and 400 terminals is | already ordered for the Centermore- | land exchange. This will provide | complete new dial facilities and al- "low for improved, regraded and new service. Prince Of Peace (Elects Vesirymen Five members were elected to | Prince of Peace Church Vestry at the annual meeting Tuesday night in the parish house. They were: Charles Flack, Judd | Holt, Samuel McKensie, John Jeter, yand Robert Weaver, all to serve | three-year terms. Many of them | youngster’s great, great, great, great | Schobert Is Advanced | grandfather, Barney Honeywell; his Fred Schobert, Pikes Creek, form- | er Lehman High School Vocational | Educational instructor, has been ad- | vanced to recruiter in charge of | training for the Jefferson National | Life Insurance Company of Indian- apolis. Mr. Schobert’s office is loca- | ted at 708 Central Building, Wilkes- their hair bobbed! That led natur-!little shop gave way to the modern | Barre. N Se Dallas Post Plans Many Innovations DAY TO THURS * | Earlier Publication Will Be An Aid To Weekend Shoppers & Merchants During Its Seventieth Anniversary “ LAKE-LEHMAN 64-47 VICTOR Lopasky. Leach and Ross Lead Winners Lake-Lehman Scotties took their third win in the North League, downing Sugar Notch 64-47 at home Tuesday night. The victory enabled the Scotties to finish the first half with a 3-4 record. Lake-Lehman jumped out in front to a first period 16-9 lead as Lo- pasky found the range for ten points. The Scotties continued to pour it on in the next quarter and led by twenty points at one stage. Bob Ross, having one of his best nights, hit for six along with Leach to lead the scoring in the second period. With a comfortable lead, Coach Nuss substituted freely but to no avail, Sugar Notch still failed to hit consistently on its field goal at- tempts. Lake-Lehman held a 39-23 half-time edge. With Bob Ross collecting seven more ‘points after intermission, the Scotties zoomed the lead again to twenty points. Then the reserves started to move off the bench but still managed to stave off any rally Sugar Notch got started. The score stood 54-35 as the period ended. The final period saw the remain- der of the Lehman bench go into action as Coach Nuss pulled most of the regulars after three minutes with his team leading 60-37. Lopasky netted fifteen of his twenty-two in the first half. Leach played a fine game off both backboards and continued his scor- ing, garnering seventeen points. Ross, usually turning in a fine performance from the floor, went wild in the scoring column and finished with fifteen. Yatko, one of the smallest men on the court, played a fine game for the losers, netting twenty-one points. : Janoski was-the other high point getter for Sugar Notch as he fin- ished with eleven. Sugar Notch G. F.. Pts. Yathko ofc or 2 a ro Bn 5a] Roberts, ff: rhodes 900 29 6 Janoskiiie mir lian 5 de 1, Crarneck, g Clini 0S aa0L 6 Yallon gL Allg Grohowski, g Leer Rag Totals ARE 19: 8 47 Lake-Lebman G. F. Pts. Topaghy, Fou ile 9. 29 Davis, f Eh 0 0 Thomas, {50 or inane 2.:0: 4 Gabel, f Sra LIC Gd) nD Teach; io Sid ln Lil ng (1 Swanson, C. .liu el 0.00 Young elon Ye 0000 Walters, zg... 00 5 0 SND Kutz, g RAT 2 Sutton, g wT 2 0 Ross, g LG NSS Martin, g Sg 1D Niezgoda, g 22000 0 0 Wotals 0% (nisi ho 28 8 64 Fouls tried, Sugar Notch 17, Lake-Lehman 12. and Pisarcik. Sugar Notch Lake-Lehman Officials, Fields 9 14 12 12—47 16 23 15 10—64 Gate of Heaven school children are enjoying a mid-year holiday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Sessions will start again at the usual time on Monday. ol | the seating capacity the site of the | game will be the West Side Central Beginning next week, this seventy year old newspaper will be published ; every Thursday morning instead of x) Friday. We believe this change of | publication date will work to the advantage of our advertisers, cor- respondents and readers. pest Changing patterns of community | life make the move seem practical. 2 Since Saturday is no longer the big shopping day of the week, house- wives make their shopping lists on Thursday. Generally after they have read the advertisements. They and their husbands and the kids do the marketing together either Thursday or Friday evening. Fd Change of publication date will make it possible for copies of the 3 Post to be delivered to subscribers | living along the Eastern seaboard before the weekend. In late years, nc many of the out-of-state readers, > have not received their papers until ] the beginning of the next week. | From an editorial point of view, ; the change will permit the staff to ’ publish weekend news at an earlier : date and while it is still fresh. Since this is the seventieth anni- versary year of The Dallas Post, the Thursday publication date is but one of many innovations planned. There will be many new features added as the year progresses. In preparation for these changes, The = Post last year increased the size of its building and added new press equipment — making it possible to carry eight columns to the page— and to complete the press run in h much shorter time. La bt To many families living away from Dallas, the Post is a letter from home. Throughout the coming year, we hope to make it editorially even more of a letter—and more enter- taining. : The Dallas Post is your commun-- ity newspaper and we, as publishers, recognize this responsibility. Noth- ing is more important to us than news of our subscribers and their families. Your lost dog means more to us than the elopement of a Holly- wood star. " : As a part of the Post’s seven- oH tieth anniversary celebration, we will = give recognition to our loyal readers and subscribers who make its pub- lication possible, by offering from month to month, anniversary spe- cials on printing that can be used in every. home. Bid op These specials will be real bar- gains with no strings attached. The one for February offers a 10 percent discount on all types of printing. The Post's job printing department is equipped with modern machines and men to handle this work with intelligence and dispatch. § Westmoreland Plays THA Swoyersville Tonight I Westmoreland - Swoyersville bas- ketball game originally scheduled for this past Tuesday has been changed to tonight (Thursday). The game was to have been played on Dallas Township floor but due to Catholic gymnasium, Kingston. Both teams go into tonight's con- test with 6-0 records. Westmore- land must take the vital contest to win the first half in the North League. Guest Speaker For Youth Revival Youth Group of the Bowmans | Creek Free Methodist Church will sponsor a Youth Revival in Bow- mans Creek Free Methodist Church from February 5 to February 8. : Back Mountain Baseball For Boys Makes Plans For Coming Season Kick-off meeting of the 1959 sea- son of Back Mountain Baseball for Boys will be held at the Dallas American Legion Home Monday night at 7:30. Since the field used by the Little League in Shavertown was needed as additional play area by Shaver- town School, Dallas District School Board has made available space at Dallas Township School grounds. Since the league will be starting from “scratch” much work and money will be needed. President Robert Parry has an- nounced the appointment of the following finance commitee: William Baker, Robert Brown, William Kelly and R. C. Farley. The finance committee is planning an issuance of stock certificates in Back Mountain Baseball for Boys as its principal means of raising money. The certificates will be offered in amounts of $1 and $5 and will be made available to the public through the boys of Little League themselves. ; . The boys will be entertained by a baseball movie and program at Himmler Theatre on the night of February 10 at which time supplies will be distributed to managers and = boys. The campaign will get under way | i February 14 and it is hoped that = every family in the Back Mountain ] area will be reached and will sup- port the program. President Parry has announced that women are a vital part of this program and will be welcome at the meeting February 2. 4 This Little League program has been in operation in the Back Moun- tain area since 1950. - During that time more than 300 boys have grad- uated from Little League play, most of whom have gone on into Teen- Age play. Under the present arrangement there are more than 300 Back Mountain boys between the ages of eight and eighteen playing or- ganized baseball each summer, and most of the high school players for the past several years have been Little League or Teen-Age League graduates, ; :
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