70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain = E DALLAS POST TWO ORchard 4-5656 EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers OR 4-7676 VOL. 70, No. 26, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1959 Local Cross-Word Puzzle Fan Wins Big Check For Coin-Word Solution There could have been no more popular award than the coin-word check that went to Mrs. Gregg of Fernbrook for last week's coin-word puzzle solution. «body knows Mrs. Gregg, and ad- “%mires the lovely knitting and cro- cheting that she does to occupy her spare time. Mrs. Gregg is eighty years old. She says she expects to put the $825 from the Wilkes-Barre Pub- lishing Company in the bank for her old age. What she is especially delighted about, is that she ‘owes no tax on it, as income under under $1200 to a person on social security is not taxable. Ever since the coin-word puzzles appeared over a year ago, Mrs. Gregg has sent in several solutions each week. It takes her about two hours to solve a puzzle, and another half-hour to shufle around the words and make out four more re- turns. She has always been inter- ested in crossword puzzles, so the 62 puzzles that have been issued are right down her alley. She missed only three puzzles . . . when she was laid up with illness last fall. N Mrs. Gregg is a cripple, able to get *about the house with a walker after an accident seven years ago in which she broke her hip. She takes an occasional short walk outdoors, leaning on a cane and the arm of her sister, Mrs. Milton Perrego, with whom she shares a home. She is. not able to bear her weight on the injured leg. ‘This accident was the second broken bone. Fourteen years ago she fell backward down a flight of nineteen steps,” and crushed her second lumbar vertebra. Mrs. Gregg is difficult to kill. A year later she was back at her job of nurs- ing, taking care of an invalid for nearly five months. When her husband, Guy Gregg, Maude | Every- | i died five and a half years ago, she moved from West Wyoming to make her home with her sister in Fernbrook. She has never seen the upstairs of the two-story home, as she cannot manage steps. Mrs. Gregg was not able to appear in person to accept the check for the coin-word puzzle from Robert Johnson, vice president of Wilkes- Barre Publishing Company and ed- itor of thé Wilkes-Barre Record. Her sister accepted it in her stead. Mrs. Gregg developed laryngitis a few days earlier when she had an unexpected outing at Hickory Run with members of the Daughters of America Past Counselors. The damp weather was too much for her, and for days she could not speak above a whisper. 3 The check, she says, will come in very handy. She is now working out answers to coin-word puzzle 62, deadline June 30. Two checks, she feels, are better than one. Guyette Renovates His Store Building William Guyette of Guyette's TV, Trucksville, has returned from At- lantic City where he attended an advance showing of 1960 models of the Admiral line. In order to take care of his rapid- ly expanding service work, Mr. Guyette has recently renovated his store and added to his basement service facilities. Simca For Auction There is great interest in the Simca sedan’ obtained for the Lib- rary Auction through the coopera- tion of L. L. Richardson, Dallas Simca dealer. Key Club Drill Team Wins ’ Second Place At Wellsboro The Kiwanis Key Club rifle-drill | who competed were: John Butler, MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Dallas Rotarians Stitch Up Tent For Library Auction The estimate for stitching up in place along the taped borders, | seven tents for the Library Auction |to permit lashing with rope to the | | tent supports. Stefan Hellersperk, which was purchased through Civil- | the Auction spark-plug, paused ian Defense. briefly to watch a seam go through | Dallas Rotary Club members went | the machine. i into a huddle. It was straightaway! Nobody could stop for a picture, stitching, long seams, nothing com- so James Kozemchak stood on a plicated. They decided to do it | chair and snapped it. Workers did themselves and save the money. not even look up, Mr. Starner and For two solid weeks, every night Mr. Burns continued to push strips from 6:30 to 11, a rented power of material through thé machine. sewing machine has been’ whirring | in the Dallas Township gymnasium, | fo. the six tents, sixteen by sixteen manned by Foster Starner and feet, and the refreshment tent, six- Harry Burns, the mainstay of the | teen by thirty-two? stitching operation. was $1,800 . . . exclusive of material, How much material is being used Almost 1,000 square yards. Tuesday evening, when. the pre- Grommets ? Eighty-four to a stan- ture was taken, billows of olive- | 5. 4 tent drab canvas were being fed into the > . 3 double-stitch machine. It is a man.| 1hread? The estimate here is size job; each tent weighing 120 Over eight million stitches. Each pounds, and each tent developed as | bobbin kolds eighty yards, enough the team by the officials of tue team of Westmoreland High School | Jack Eck, Harold Hislop, Edgar In- journeyed to Wellsboro to compete man, George Jacobs, David Kimball, in the Laurel Festival Parade Satur- | Gordon Lorentz, Robert Peterson, day. The team was cited for its | Wayne Schmoll, Robert Steele, Dur- performance “in rifle and marching [elle Scott, Ronald Trewern, Robert drills. A prize money check of Wallace, William Welch, William twenty-five dollars was presented to Whittaker and James Wertman. The boys wish to thank the toi- parade. lowing people for making their day The winner of first prize money, |a success. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth a fifty dollar check, went to the | Inman; Mr. and Mrs. David Kimball, Black Marauders of Mansfield, a | Mr. and Mrs. Fred Eck, Mr. and professional outfit that has won Mrs. Gordon Lorentz, Mr. and Mrs. honors all over the eastern part of | Gerald Frantz and Mr. and Mrs. the country. George McCutcheon. Members of the Key Club team Lots of Action Due at Lehman Horse Show This is the kind of action you'll see on Friday evening, July 3, at the Lehman athletic field when riders of western horses from a wide area will compete in “Rodeo Races and Time Events.” Shown here are two unidentified “cowboys” competing in the “Shovel Race.” The shovel rider in this race usually gets the worst of the deal but winners are rewarded for their daring with cash prizes. “Rodeo Races and Time Events” will get underway on Friday evening at 6 p.m.; the two and one-half hour show will feature the following: Class No. 1—Pick Up Race (in this time event the riders race the length of the show ring, pick up another rider and race ~ back); Class No. 2—Boot Race (rider's boots are thrown in a pile at "one end of the ring, riders race to boot pile, find own boot and put it on, race back); Class No. 3—Clover Leaf Race (traditional time, event calling for expert horsemanship); Class No. 4—Scoop Shovel _ Race (shown above, a time event in which one man is dragged on a "'scoop shovel across show ring by partner on horse); Class No. 5— Barrel Cutting (traditional time event featuring sharp cutting and + quick stopping). Following the all western show, there will be an outdoor Western Square Dance on the Lehman Show grounds, 9 to midnight. ! Panky Stolarick’s band will furnish the music; caller will be Red Jones. During the dance a Rodeo Queen and her attendants will be selected. Those who attended last year’s dance are sure to return, for the outdoor dancing on a summer night with a late moon rising in the East proved to be a lot of fun for everyone participating. Plans have been made to hold the dance in the Lehman auditorium if weather should not be so ideal this year. ! On July 4th the show will start with a parade at 9:30 and will continue all day with recess only at noontime when the Auxiliary of = the Fire Company will serve a baked ham dinner. : Children 12 years of age and under will be admitted free of shiavag on both July 3 and 4. (Photo courtesy of Paramount Studio) | He looked at the sheet iron top of a unit, constructed with a peak in | the middle and four ground-length | sides. Bleachers were draped withdtans vas; the floor ‘Was Stréwn with long | strips of olive drab, marked and! ready for the machine. | There were two tents yet to go, | and the deadline was only ten days off, the Saturday before the Auction. Aype, both raw edees folded under and double-stitchtd is wh de 3h for two runs of the lonz canvas strips. Pure flax is used for strength, and seams are the flat A tent frame stood on the gym- nasium floor for a model, each wooden - piece bolted together for easy disassembly. The tent frames were made by ‘Shavertown Lumber Company. Dal- las Engineers welded the pipe frames, 400 spot welds. Jack Wil- son furnished the metal pieces used to strengthen the joints of the wooden tent tops. Everything is marked and every- thing comes apart for easy storage and assembly. ~ Fred Howell made the calcula- tions for the tents, even allowing for shrinkage of canvas. Among the Rotarians who have accepted this voluntary job with enthusiasm as their contribution to the Thirteenth Annual Library Auc- tion, are these people: Art Ross, Lem Troster, Red Ambrose, Dale Parry, ‘Stefan Hellersperk, Charles Roberts, Harry Burns, Foster Star- ner, and Jack Stanley. Rotarians not only made the tent frames and are working on the stitching but poured = permanent concrete foundations for the tent Lposts on the Auction grounds, across Lehman Avenue dfyrom - the “Risley Barn where the Auction block will be erected. The group is 100 per- cent behind the Library and tne Annual Auction. The Auction holds these tents in Jack Stanley and Art Ross bent | Rotarians, working for six weeks |trust for Civilian Defense, which over the grommet machine, the every Saturday with Stefan Hellers- | may call for them in case of na- power. tool that sets the brass rings perk. Lumber was purchased from ‘tional or regional catastrophe. Rescues His Two-Year Old Son rom Deep Well On Father’s Day A two-year old child living on the His cousin, ' thirteen year old, He serambled to the safety of his Nesbitt Estate at Lake Catalpa fell George Chesney from Philadelphia, father’s arm, twenty feet below the down a well on Father's Day and | was rescued by a father who clung to rock in his descent and should- ered his ‘way up ‘the perilous ascent again with the gasping child clinging to his neck. ‘Fred Getz, Jr., dressed for Fath- er's Day in a new wash-suit, toddled away from the kitchen at 10 a.m. | the thirty-five foot well. It had been pushed aside a little and 'Fred- die could see the gleam of water twenty feet below. Fascinated, he put one small foot on the sheet iron, and it tipped. With a scream, he vanished. rushed into the house. “Come quick, Fred is in the water.” “Get a rope,” shouted Fred Sr. Then, straddling the void, without waiting for the rope, he | went down the rough stone well, | bracing himself against the center | pipe, slipping and sliding, but work- | ing his way always closer to his | little boy. | “Hang on, Fred, hang on tight.” | Little Fred, gripping the pipe, | hung on desperately, his small face above the water, his chubby legs | floundering. A hand swung down to meet him. and | small, secure oval of daylight far above. Inch by inch, father and son came up the well, slipping on the mossy stones, but making it, slowly and painfully. Donald Chesney, George's father, reached down an arm. It was over. Mr. Chesney looked down at the water and shuddered. He took the dump truck and went for rough stones. The well is filled. It no longer endangers little Fred or the year- old baby. Lollypop Quarter Will Open This Saturday Night Lollypop Quarter Midget Raceway | located on Route 115 will offic.ally | open Saturday night. In conjunc- tion with official opening the Dallas | Quarter Midget Racing Association ! will hold its first official race of the season starting at 7. The newly constructed macadam oval track built to quarter-midget racing specifications, has protective hay bales and fence completely en- closing the track. A pit area is provided for the racers. A judge's stand will be erected to give proper control along with a public ad- dress system. Lights have been installed for night driving. The drivers of the Dallas Quarter Midget Racing Association will be in competition with drivers from Scranton, Berwick, Allentown and Williamsport. The schedule of races includes a feature race, consolation race, semi-main race and a number of heats. The distance varies from ten laps to a heat of twenty-five laps for the feature race. Trophies and points will be awarded the winners of each event. The cars will be driven by boys and girls ranging in ages from four to eight years in the junior class and from nine to fifteen years in jl the senior group. The cars are in the modified stock class with speci- fications closely defined. The association in promoting midget racing is interested in de- / Midget Raceway veloping the sense of fair play, good sportsmanship and skill in boys and girls participating. To properly conduct. the races it is necessary to have a staff of officials, racing chairman, score keepers, starters, timers, pitmen, referees, safety men, safety and technical committee plus the elected officers. The public is cordially invited by George Bittenbender, owner of the Lollypop Quarter Midget Raceway and the Quarter Midget Racing As- sociation. Admission and parking are free. Home On Leave Airman 3rd Class, Robert Nicely has completed his basic medical training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and is spending a furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nicely, Main Street, Shavertown. He will leave Tuesday for Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama where he will study to be a pharmacist. Bob is a graduate of Westmore- land High School, class of 1958. Serve On Barn Committee Dallas Kiwanis Club Key Club composed of Westmoreland High School boys is serving on the Auc- tion Barn Committee. {city 1. 1, Mrs. Frances Bertels Dies At General Mrs. Frances Bertels, Huntsville- Hillside Road, victim of ‘a cerebral hemorrhage suffered last Monday, died Thursday morning at General Hospital. She was buried in Hollen- back Cemetery Saturday afternoon, following services conducted by Rev. Burke Rivers from St. Stephens Episcopal Church. ; Mrs. Bertels, only 48, seemed to be on the road to recovery when a heart condition developed the day before her death. The former Frances Hillman was born in Wilkes-Barre, daughter of Mrs. Mabel Hillman and the late Fredrick Hillman, who died in 1940. She attended Wilkes-Barre Institute and Miss Beard’s Preparatory School in Orange, N. J. graduating from the Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She was a member of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, and a chartered member of the Junior League. She was active in Planned Parent- hood Federation and the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. At one time she took an active part in the Red Cross Motor Corps. Mrs. Bertels is survived by her husband, Charles W. Bertels; her ‘| mother, Mrs. Hillman; three children by a former marriage: Mrs. Mor- timer Ryon, Waverly; John C. Fer- enbach, Jr., Drummondsville, Que- bec; Mrs. James A. Saxe, Stamford, Conn.; six grandchildren and a sis- ter, Mrs. Joseph Lawton, Garden Raise $928 On Doorbell Night Little League Asks Parents Participation Little League doorbell night was held on Monday, June 15. The re- sponse of the public was gratifying to the men who are working with the youngsters this year. President Bob Parry reported that the amount taken in during the drive totaled $928.00. The youngsters were very well pleased with the night's work and can look forward to an enjoy- able summer of baseball thanks to you, Mr. and Mrs. Public. The one thing amazing about all of this is the fact that everyone is willing to assist the youngsters but no one seems to get around to the games themselves. Score keepers, umpires and announcers are difficult to find. This is really too bad be- cause the young fellows do not see the correct box scores of their games, do not get proper officiating at the games and often times it is up to youngsters themselves to do some of this work. It has been defin- itely proven they are not capable of doing this job even though they mean well. Wish we could get more people as enthusiastic about these chores as Mrs. Liebold, Paul Stein- hauer, Mr. Halpin, Bert Olson and the managers and officers of the league. To get better coverage of each game official game report blanks will be given to the managers and they will fill them out for the offi- cial box score results to be carried in the paper in the future. This, we hope, will avoid mistakes in the box scores and spelling of names. Company Starts Three Projects Commonwealth To Spend $233,100 Construction of an unattended | dial office at Centermoreland will begin within the week by Common- wealth Telephone Company, J. N. Landis, district manager, reported today. The building, ‘which will be loca- ted on the road between Orange and Centermoreland, will be 24’ x 29’. The new office will replace existing facilities now in rented quarters in Centermoreland. Mod- ern central official dial switching equipment, consisting of 100 lines— 400 terminals, will provide improv- ed, new and regraded service. To participate in the nationwide, inter-toll dialing system, the Center- moreland exchange will have 2-5 numbering with the exchange’s des- ignation being FEderal 3. Dialing, with the cut-over which is pro- grammed for next February, will simply include dialing of the first two letters of the exchange name followed by 3 and four other figures. New Cable Manager Landis noted that cost of the Centermoreland construction, including the building, central office equipment and its installation, will approximate $48,100. In addition, Mr. Landis stated that construction has already begun on a $143,000 project involving cable construction from Dallas to Centermoreland to Orange and Car- verton. Underground cable and con- duit will be run along Lake Street with aerial cable proceeding along Center Hill Road and thence to Centermoreland, Orange and Carver- ton. Tying in to the new Center- moreland facilities, the cable will provide line relief, regraded and new service. It will replace much open wire construction. Installation of a Private Auto- matic Branch Exchange at the Jack- son Township Institution for Defec- tive Delinquents will begin this week as well. The estimated cost of this extensive installation will be $42,- 000, Mr. Landis said. Dallas Taxi Co. Buys Two Cabs Dallas Taxi Company began oper- ation this week on a twenty-four hour ‘a day basis serving the public with a fine, shiny Cadillac limousine and a new specially built Plymouth taxi purchased from Duke Isaacs. Limousine service can be supplied for weddings, funerals, or trips to ball games with accommodations for seven passengers. Drivers for the present will be Ralph Garris, Ray Elston or Tiny Gould. They have asked that those par- ents who plan to use the service this fall for school pupils in lieu of car pools, be sure to discuss their transportation problems with them now as there is apparently a big demand for pupil service here. Hedden Gets Contract Raymon R. Hedden Inc., has been awarded the contract for construc- ting the addition to Wilkes-Barre General Hospital at his low bid of $2,143,897. ; TEN CENTS PER COPY—TEN PAGES Graduate From Girard ROLAND R. KOCHER CHARLES J. WEISS Two Back Mountain boys, Roland R. Kocher and Charles J. Weiss, graduated from Girard College in Philadelphia June 11. Roland Kocher, who has made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Carpenter of Har- veys Lake since he was an infant, took the general course and busi- ness education, with the goal of journalism in mind after he finishes his education. He expects to take evening studies at Rutgers Univer- sity. He was staff sergeant of the college band, and band librarian. His mother is Mrs. Mary Krauss of Newark, N. J., and his father the late Roland Kocher. His paternal grandparents were the late Mr. and Mrs. ‘Eckley Kocher of Shavertown. Charles Weiss is son of Mrs. Charles H. Weiss of Shrine View, Dallas. He was sports editor of the yearbook at Girard, and wrote for the school magazine. He was a re- cruit lieutenant in the battaliort and a member of the drill team. While at Girard he received three varsity awards. He was a member of the soccer team which had its best season in history this year. Ranking sixth in a class of 96, Weiss has won a scholarship to Wilkes College. Plants And Produce Booth Asks For Flowers, Bulbs School Tax Is Raised 10 Mills For This Year Increase Will Raise $58,807 First Payment On New Building Dallas School District has adopted a budget of $894,891 and levied a tax of 45 mills on real estate and a $10.00 Per Capita tax for the school year 1959-1960. For the school year 1958-1959 the real estate tax was 35 mills and the Per Capita tax was $10.00. The 10 mills added this year is to take care of the first payment of $59,000 on the new senior high school. The real estate assessed valuation is $5,880,734. Ten mills will raise $58,807. The present schools will be operated with the same tax levy as last year but has these additional costs: 1. State mandated fire wells at Dallas $ 5,412 2. State mandated fire wells at Shavertown 7,170 - 3. State mandated X teachers’ increments 19,500 4. Salary ruling by the 4 ! Attorney General 2,000 $34,082 5. A ten percent increase in the cost of textbooks, library books, janitors supplies, fuel. The cost of Commencement will increase twenty percent — 120° graduates next year. There were 99 this year. Pupil bus transportation will cost fourteen percent more. The union school district's supple- mental appropriation of $47,877 from the State Department of Pub- lic Instruction is the big factor. If this were not a union school district that amount of money could not be gotten from local taxes. School calendar has been adopted for 1959-1960. School will start on Wednesday, September 2 and end June 10, 1960. A final settlement was completed with tax collectors: Arthur Dungey, Dallas Borough; Wilson Ryman, Dal- las Township; Mrs. Nellie Eaton, Franklin Township; and Theodore Poad, Kingston Township, for the ¥ 1958-1959 tax duplicates. 7 oy WHR soir Don Wilkinson Agency was ape pointed delinquent tax collector for : the 1958 delinquent taxes. Supervising Principal James Mar- tin was authorized to proceed with all summer maintenance work and to advertise for bids on pupils’ desks needed at the Shavertown Elemen- tary School Building and the Junior High School and chairs for the auditoriums of Westmoreland High School and the Junior High School. Bids will also be requested for better lighting of classrooms at Shaver- town building, three rooms at Dallas Borough building, and six rooms at Dallas Junior High School building. Baumgarten Wins NYU Scholarship For 1959-60 Morton Baumgarten, son of Mr. Mrs. Margaret Dykman, chairman |and Mrs. Ben Baumgarten, Sterling of Plants and Produce for the Lib- | Avenue, has ‘been notified by New rary Auction, asks flower lovers to | York University College of Engineer- share some of their especially nice | bulbs and plants with people who | ] will treasure them. The Hutchisons | demic year. have made a business of rooting sturdy chrysanthemum plants for | sity in September. ing that he has been awarded a scholarship for the 1959-1960 aca- Morton, 18, will enter his junior year at New York Univer- He is presently the booth. People who have plants enrolled at NYU for |the summer, and bulbs may bring them to the | booth the morning of the auction, | | He is a graduate of Governor Mad- |ison High School. v either Friday, July 10, or Saturday, July 11. taking a six weeks course im labora- tory work in advanced engineering. Eastern Star To Have Auction All Day Saturday At Idetown “Come to Shaver’s Plot, Idetown, Saturday at 10 to enjoy the fun that will accompany the Dallas Chapter #396 Order of the Eastern Star's Annual Auction,” invites Mrs. Elma Price, Worthy Matron. The committees have a worthwhile auction are: Chairlady, Mrs. Thelma Lamoreux, P.M. Co-chairlady, Mrs. Helen Cris- pel, P.M.; Auctioneér, Robert A. Wilson; Posters, Carol Dymond; Property and Trucking, William Rineman, Oscar Dymond, George Price; Auction Sales, Elma Price, Oce Beryl Austin; Telephone Squad, Anna Shaver, Myrtle Rineman, Mar- garet Layaou, Jean Kuehn, Doris Straley, Cleona Fritz, Miriam Wil- liams, Margery Merolla, Mildred Garinger. Refreshments, Helen Crispell, P.M., Mildred Lutes, P.M., Goldie Ide, cooperating to P.M., Anna Hackling, Mary Frances |: « Violet | Dendler, Bina: Holdredge, Gary, and Dorothy Johnson; Baked Goods, Gertrude Davis, P.M., Betty Meeker, Dorothy Dodson, Jennie Miers, Lana Birnstock; Plants, Laura Dymond, P.M., Mrs. Ziba Smith, Sara Mitten. | White Elephant and Knickknacks, Mildred . Howell, Sara Strausser, | Elsie Jolley; Homemade Candy, | tion, Anna Alt, Dorothy Whitesell, Vera Hopa, Agnes Myers. Sponsors Auction MRS. ELMA PRICE - « « . . Worthy Matron of Dallas Chapter No. 396, Order of Eastern Star, Mrs. Price invites all to attend Thelma Lamoreux, P.M. Elizabeth the Auction which will be held this Layaou, P.M., Jean Holcomb, Ann-|gaturday at Idetown for the benefit jane Layaou; New Goods Solicita- | of the Chapter’s Building Fund. v
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