, in 1936 and joined the Legion upon | AY 70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain VOL. 70, No. 40, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959 William Moran To Be Inducted As Commander Daddow-Isaacs Post Honors Popular Dallas School Instructor \ el WILLIAM A. MORAN William A. Moran, Dallas area | school teacher, will be installed as Commander of Daddow-Isaac Post 672, American Legion, Friday night at the Legion Home. Bill is a veteran of World War II where he served as a classification specialist and counselor for the Third and Seventh Service :Com- mand and the Air Force from Ion to 1945. He is a graduate of East Strouds- burg State Teachers College, Scran- ton University and University of Albama. Since then he has attend- ed King’s, Wilkes and Temple Uni- versity. ~ Although Bill's home address is Hudson, Pa., he is considered a local resident by the members. Mr. Moran began his teaching career in the Dallas Borough School discharge from the military service Jn 1945. He has served the Post as a ' director since 1945 and as president of the board of directors from 1945 to 1950 and as adjutant for three years. i Other members to: be installed will be Tom Reese, adjutant; Bill O’Brien, first vice commander; Tom ATemplin, Jr., vice commander; Ed ‘Buckley, treasurer; Wayne King, service officer; Paul Shaver, chap- lain; Hugh Carr, historian; ‘Tom Kane and Dick Fuller, Sefgonnip at. arms. Post 525, Luzerne, will install the new officers with John Gallagher, Twelfth District Coramender, “in charge. Invited guests will be Louis Groko. Past Twelfth District Commander; Pete Tulosko, National Field Rep- resentative of the Legion, and Fred Shupnik, Past Twelfth District Com- mander and Representative. from the Sixth Legislative District at Har- risburg. The Legion Auxiliary . will serve refreshments. Public invited. Services Today For Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Mrs. Elizabeth Smith's death not- “ce was received too late to make an obituary possible for this week. The funeral will be held this:after- noon from the Bronson Funeral Home, with burial at Maple Grove. | there. G. Wesley Cave Named Manager (Of Whiteman's Firm Has Close Ties With Back Mountain Area G. Wesley Cave, Huntsville Road, has been named vice president and general manager of H. A. White- man Paper Company, Wilkes-Barre wholesale paper distributors. Mr. Cave is a member of the third generation of his family to serve with the company. His grandfather, the late George Cave, and his father, Nicholas Cave, were each associat- ed with the firm ‘for more than forty years. Mr. Cave succeeds the late H. L. Jamieson who died suddenly some weeks ago. He has been associated with the company since his dis- charge from military service in 1945; first as a salesman and until his promotion as salesmanager. The Whiteman firm has a close association with the Back Mountain area. The founder, Stephen White- man, and his wife, Lydia Major ‘Whiteman, reared their family on the farm now owned by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Heffernan. Their sons, Harry, later head of the firm, and Dr. Frank [Whiteman, were born After the death of Harry White- man, the late Charles Wheaton Lee | of Dallas became head of the firm. And now Mr. Cave's family is closely’ associated with this area, | his father was a former Dallas Councilman; his sister, Grace, oper- ates the Grace Cave Shop in Dallas; sister, Verna, Mrs. John Sheehan, Huntsville Road, is a register ed | te nurse and brother, Sheldon, is an be given at the College on Wednes- | Elizabeth, R.S.M.; Appreciation of | | day evenings and Saturday morn- Opera by Sister | R.S.M.,” Dante's Divine. Comedy: by | Idetown merchant. Mrs. Cave is the former Betty Lewis of Wilkes-Barre. They have two children, Wesley, Jr., and Vera | Beth. Mr. Cave is a, member of Hunts- | ville Methodist Church, George M. Gay ry HE DALLA MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INS Offer Courses For Town and Gown | From left to right are Dr. Sister Marianna, RSM, Charles Cirtautas, dean, Miss Marie Louise Misericordia Plans Adult Education Key Club Makes Courses for Dallas and Nearby Areas | College Misericordia has planned ' given by Sister Mary Michael, R.S.M. | an Adult Education Program for | Each Wednesday evening | men and women residing in Dallas will | and neighboring areas. | ings, beginning October 14. |" Dr. Carla Peirone will give Italian! | 1, three times weekly; she will also" | | teach Advanced Spanish every | | Wednesday evening. Twice a month | Russian Literature in Translation ] classes be offered in Developmental | Courses will Reading by Sister M. Catherine Carmela Marie, | Sister Marianna, R.S.M. On Satur- day morning Miss Baumlin will offer French Methods and French for Ele- mentary School Children. Art Appreciation will be given if Dallas Lodge F&AM, Caldwell Con- |will be given by Dr. Claude Cirtau- | there are enough registrants. Classes sistory, Irem Temple, Dallas Kiwanis | tas, and The American Novel will be ' will not be held for less than fifteen. Bobcat Seeks Protection From Rain On Frank Jackson's Porch Club, and Daddow-Isaacs Post, American Legion. Three Deer Killed By Cars Along 115 Three deer were killed by witto: | Th rsda; morning around. 6 4! from the crowd. | Marching behind Westmoreland | tra. ts gwher! the cat. had \erosi mobiles this week along Route 115 o'clock Frank Jackson turned the the terrace. between Lehman and Kitchen Creek. The most recent was Wednesday | morning when a jumped in front of a pick-up truck 125-pound doe | | lights on his back porch at Har- veys Lake. light he saw a Bobcat, The pawmarks were: 1 374 chon) wide’ by 2 1/4 inches long. The There in the soft glow of the distance: between pawprints from sheltered toe to toe was eight inches. Frank driven by Richard Dula cof Sweet from the rain, sitting on its haun- | estimated that the cat was about Valley near the intersection with | ches at the edge of the flagstone | twenty inches long. the road that leads Pond. Game Protector to Bryant's Edward Gdosky sent the carcass to Luzerne County Prison. Another deer early in the week was killed when it ran in front of a station wagon driven by Rural Mail Carrier Sherman Kunkle of Sweet Valley. Still another was killed by il unidentified motorist near the old | Mooretown school beyond the Foot- | hills Restaurant. Rrchers Have Good Luck | First Days Ot Deer Season * Archers have reported more than thirty-five deer kills during the first few days of the Archery season in the Northeast Division of the State | Game Commission, according to Carl | G. Stainbrook, Division head. Mr. Stainbrook estimates that the | kill will probably reach 200 before | Details next: week. Local Exhibitors Take Sweeping” the season closes on October 24. Victories At Bloomsburg Fair By CHARLES S. HEMENWAY In spite of the weather, this was the biggest and best Bloomsburg Fair in every respect. The live- stock department was taxed to capacity in all divisions and we understand that exhibitors in. the sheep and swine section had to be turned away. The poultry show was large and interesting. One of the most fasci- nating exhibits was the Rabbit Show. You all know the old nurs- Sind song, “Bye Baby Bunting, Dad- dy's gone a hunting to get a little rabbit skin to wrap the Baby Bunt- ing in.” Well, they had a display to prove it; muffs and mittens, stoles, blankets, and pocketbooks trimmed in rabbit skins. Most in- teresting and attractive! If we had space, I could write about the display in the agricul- tural buildings: a jam and jelly business that grew up from the home kitchen to larger quarters. Success stories all over the place! And, you were there, and so was Sandsdale Farm and Hillside Farm, Trucksville. Sandsdale with seven- teen head of fine Holstein cattle and Hillside Farms with seven Hol- steins and nine Dorset sheep. Sandsdale won first junior bull calf, second junior heifer calf, first and second two-year-old cow, first three-year-old cow, second four- year-old cow, first and third aged cow, first and second best uddered | cow, first junior get-of-sire, second | best three females, second breeders young herd, first dairy herd and Gr. Sr. Champion bull and Gr. Sr. Champion cow, Luzerne and Co- lumbia and Montour County, county herd. Hillside Farms showed only young animals winning second junior yearling with Hillside Dunlaggin Rosemary, the property of William | H. Conyngham and she was later first and champion 4-H heifer. Rose- mary has had a very successful show career winning last year and again this year at the 4-H District Shows and also the State 4-H Show and again the and White Shows and Bloomsburg Fair. Fine Young Exhibitors We might add that Miss Harriet Sands and Miss Jessie Conyngham | showed beautifully fitted calves|and placed well in-the 4-H Shows, adding to the attractiveness of the shows. Hillside won also second senior yearling heifer, third best females and third breeders young herd. In the Hillside won first and third lambs and first pen of lambs, sec- ond ewe lamb and second yearling ewe, showing against the winning Dorsets at New York State Fair. BS Se BS first | State Black | three | sheep department, | ram terrace and calmly surveying the | early morning scene. The got up quietly and walked away. # Mr. Jackson, who knows a Bob- cat when he sees .it because he has hunted many of them on the mountains with the late Squire Ralph Davis, got out his tape | measure and measured the wet animal were about His estimates and measurements right when compared with the measurements of the big | mounted specimen which Ralph ‘Rood shot some years ago and now "has on display at the office of The Dallas . ‘Post. That animal has a body length of twenty inches and a foot span of eight inches. Jacquish Heads Toastmasters’ _ | | "WARD JAQUISH Back Mountain Toastmasters will | install officers Thursday night at 8 in Back Mountain Memorial” Library Annex. Ward W. Jacquish, comptroller of Sordoni Construction Company and secretary of Commonwealth Telephone Company, will be in- stalled as president. He succeeds William Evans, Ma- | plewood Avenue, who has served as president for six months. Othér officers to be installed are Donald Edwards, educational vice president; William Frey, administra- tive vice president; Donald Evans, treasurer-secretary, and John Woy- | chik, sergeant-at-arms. The club meets the first and third Thursday of each month in the | Annex. Its purpose is to help mem- bers develop the art of speech, in conversation and public address and as a means of increasing their usefulness in business, social and civic relationships. Membership application cards are available to men who wish to make | profitable use of the opportunity | offered by Toasmsetars. | | ing a Jeep, plowed into the Jeep Rams Back Of Stopped School Bus A four-car automobile accident on DeMunds Road near the Hildebrant Farm on Thursday afternoon tied up traffic for some time. In the first accident at 3:30 cars driven by Bobby Getz, Kunkle, and James Fino, Dover, N. J. sideswiped each other. While the cars were still on the | highway, a school bus, driven by Arthur Redman, came along and | stopped. Then David Williams, driv- rear end of the stopped school bus. There was little damage to the | bus, but the Jeep was badly dam- aged. No one was injured. Lehman Avenue Flooded | During the heavy rain Friday night, Lehman Avenue was flooded ! from Huntsville Road to The Dallas | Post building with several inches of water creating a traffic hazard and preventing pedestrians from using the street. Water | of The Dallas Post damaging several i cartons of newsprint. The cause, clogged catch basins which the Street Department mo longer cleans in Dallas Borough. Saturday Is Booster Day For Westmoreland Westmoreland High School Foot- ball Mothers Club has designated | Saturday as Booster Day. Booster | Tickets will be on sale at Saturdays game with Wyoming. Fans are urg- ed to buy the tickets and to wear them at all succeeding games. A record number of mothers at- Baumlin, and Dr. Carla Peirone. flowed into the basement | i hemorrhage from her Hit At The Fair To Drill At Renova Saturday Afternoon” | Kiwanis Key Club’s Drill team and colorful flag bearers are bringing renown to the Back Mountain reg- | ion. )Last week they brought down | the house at Bloomsburg Fair. This | week, with a Queen as an added | attraction, they will be featured at the Flaming Forest Festival at Ren- {ovo on Saturday. | The drill team participated in the parade at Bloomsburg Fair on Fri- day. Drilling before the grandstand, ihe team with twenty girls bearing { the huge American flag which has become synonymous with the drill team, received a standing ovation | Band, led by Lester Lewis, the drill | | team went through a rifle routine | that caught everybody's fancy. Many { watching the spectacle, had high praise for Westmoreland’s contribu- tion to the gala affair. Girls who carried the flag were Sue Kelley, Sandy Lee, Grace Bach- man, Eileen Dungey, Bonnie Gross, Donna Myers, Betty Mannear, Char- lene Mannear, Bonnie Sickler, Joyce Anderson, Carol Anderson, Carol Dungey, Joy Burhams, Barbara Pro- kopchak, Sally Moyer, Ruth Miller, Janice Weeden, Alma Gray, Margie Walp and Elsa Orchard. Members of the drill team were: Peter Letts, Ronald Trewern, Jon Butler, Durelle Scott, Andrew Siket, Clinton Hess, Thomas Bloomer, Rob- ert Wallace, Robert Peterson and captain Edgar Inman. Renovo This Week I, ~ PO Wyoming Valley Schools Follow Suit On Tests Lake-Lehman Schools Made T.B. Survey And Patch Tests ‘57 to ‘39 “A recent article in the Times- Leader gave a big build-up to Wyo- r''TUTION ‘ ming Valley Schools planning a TB! survey of all second grade children in their area, including public, priv- ate, and parochial schools, about 1,000 in all. Mrs. Ruth Simms, school nurse of Lehman-Jackson-Ross of the Lake-Lehman jointure, writes: “This article (clipping enclosed) appeared in Wilkes-Barre Times- Leader for September 22. “As usual, the poor rural schools no publicity; yet Dr. Irving! | ted this test on their entire student ' body in 1957 and 1958, before they | were officially part of the Lake-Leh- man Jointure. “Last year, the combined Lake- Lehman Area patch - tested over 1,000 children. We also did Tuber- culin tests on positive cases, and had large chest X-Rays made at Kirby Health Center on peactors to that test. “Mrs. Jean Moledor, school nurse at Lake-Noxen, met with Miss Min- | erva Jackson to help her set up the present Valley survey! “Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder; maybe you'd like. to write this up!” Roan and Carr Leave Westmoreland Staff Head Coach Tony Roan and As- sistant Coach Tom Carr have re- signed from the Westmoreland High School Coaching staff. Roan, former head coach at Dallas Township High School, became head coach at Westmoreland when the two schools formed a jointure three years ago. Carr was formerly coach at Jim Thorpe. Assistant Coach George Dombick will remain as. assistant to Coach Eddie Brominski. Brominski had hoped to have both Roan and Carr remain on the staff. 3 Carr asked to be relieved because of work on his Master's Degree which prevents his attending prac- tices on Monday and Wednesday nights. Westmoreland has won and tied one game in the past three years. > Lehigh Street, Trucksville, is rap- idly becoming a raceway much to the consternation of residents who are appealing for better police pro- tection. Young bloods, impressed with. the power of their own and their | family’s automobiles, are making This Saturday the team and flag- bearing girls will journey to Renovo | to participate in the “Flaming For- | est” parade. They ‘will leave at | eight and arrive in Renovo to dine | at the Americus Hotel prior to parading. Ann Marie Geskey will accompany | the drill team and represent the group as queen. Ann Marie was chosen for this | { honor by the Key Club and a group of teachers. Qualifications were high | academic standing, personality, char- acter and poise. Durelle Scott, president of the | Key Club, will act as Ann Maries | pisieial escort during her two days | of competition against queens from | various high schools entered in the | contest. | The winner will receive financial | assistance for entrance to any col- | lege in Pennsylvania. | Awaiting Admission For Delicate Ear Operation Awaiting admission to University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Phila- delphia for a delicate ear operation, is Mrs. Francis Sordoni of Wyoming R. D. . Affllicted with ear trouble since having scarlet fever as a child, Mrs. Sordoni suffered another ear Sunday morning. « She now faces probable total deafness as a result of intended removal of diseased bone. Other means of clearing the infection have failed. | 3 Hurt Bs Car Hits Tree | tended the Club’s meeting Mondovi | night to set up plans. More than forty were in attendance. Heads Country Club J. Henry Pool, Dallas RD, succeeds Atty. John C. Phillips, also of Dallas, as president of Wyoming Valley Country Club. : | Mrs. Ruth Root, Dallas RD 1, was injured: Friday night when a car in which she was a passenger struck a. ty ee and upset while travelling the” Beaumont Road Cdunty. Operator of the vehicle was Theodore Ringsdorf, Dallas RD 1. Ms. Root was admitted to Nesbitt Hiospital by Dallas Community Am- balance, suffering from possible con- ’ cussion. The car was wrecked, in. Wyoming |. a hazard for pedestrians and other | motorists. This is especially - true | afternoons after school is out and In spite of a brief delay due to Highway and Route 115. ruary 20. Company. Among its unusual features is the house used as Washington's Valley Forge. the long straight stretch. of road of steel columns, the new headquarters building of the Northeast District of the State Game Commis- sion is rising rapidly at the intersection of Memorial Construction plans call for completion by Feb- The $100,000 building, first of its kind to be constructed for any of its districts by the Com- mission, is being built by Raymon R. Hedden and stone facing, made from stone similar to that used in the construction, more than 200 years ago, of When completed, the one-story building will be equipped with complete short wave facilities for iotnsiaiatinn Cae a ra Ul TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers ORchard 4-5656 OR 4-7676 TM TEN CENTS PER COPY — TWELVE PAGES head coach. He began his duties Tuesday. When Mr. Brominski’'s name was suggested to the directors, Harry i Sickler, director from Franklin Township asked: “I'd like to have the honor of making the resolution | to hire him. He's a fine man.’ Sickler recalled that he had played | Jacobs was responsible for bringing p.cchall with him many times and {e first TB survey to this isolated j , Bis‘record. at: Columbia. and benighted area. | “The Lake-Noxen schools conduc- | The news had hardly been an- nounced before the school admin- | istrative offices and The Dallas Post | began receiving telephone calls from {other communities congratulating the Board on its choice. Board Congratulated Said Joe McCracken, former coach of Kingston High School, “You could have searched the United States and not have found a better man to handle the ball. A wise selection.” E. E. Quay, former coach at Wyo- ming Seminary, “Eddie was a top Council Rejects Bids For Heat Dallas Borough Council at its meeting Tuesday night rejected all bids for supplying a heating plant for the Borough Building and is re- advertising for bids to be opened Tuesday night, October 20. All bids must be sealed and ac- companied by a certified check made out to the Council for $50. Council also approved the appoint- ment of a special police officer for a two-week period to work at the Borough School at the request of the Parent-Teacher Association, and see if better traffic control cannot be worked out with the School ad- ministrative staff. In the. meantime: Council instruc- ted the Borough Secretary to dis- cuss with the County Commissions the erection of a manually operated traffic light at Huntsville and Franklin Street. Daylight Saving will end Sunday, October 25. Lehigh Street Residents Socal For Better Traffic Enforcement | from dusk until late hours at night. Within the past few weeks there | have been several near accidents and pedestrians’ lives have been en- i'dangered ‘to the extent that drivers thy have extinguished their lights in order to avoid detection. In addition to high speed and reckless driving, residents say there have also been drag races starting from the intersection of Maple and Lehigh Streets. a minor shortage Brominski Returns To Football As Head Coach Of West Former Wyoming Seminary ol Columbia Pd University Star Played In Rose Bowler The announcement that Eddie Brominski, bia University football star and for the past ten years physical education instructor at Hazleton High School, has been retained as head football coach by Dallas School District has met with widespread favor throughout the Back Mountain area. Brominski was appointed Monday night at a special meet- ing of the Board called to consider the entire school athletic ‘program in both the Junior and Senior High Schools. His salary will be $5,830 a year notch student and a fine halfback as instructor and $500 a season as "at Wyoming Seminary. eland former Colum- Played under Lou Little on that | underdog Columbia team that de- 1 feated Stanford by one touchdown in the Rose Bowl in 1932. The | following year he was selected to play in the Shrine East-West game {in the Rose, Bowl.” Elmer Williams, Dallas Funeral Director, “Have you heard the won- ! derful news? The School Board has hired Eddie Brominski to coach Westmoreland. He taught me at Plymouth High School where he was head coach for twelve years until he enlisted in the Navy where he was a petty officer in special ser- vices in charge of Physical Educa- tion. A wonderful guy, I served with him in the Navy, too. After that he was assistant coach at St. Louis University for two years. Went out there with one of the coaches that served with him in the Navy. The Board couldn't have hired a better man.” Coached at St. Louis After two years at St. Louis, Brominski returned east to become coach of football and baseball as well as physical education instructor at Hazleton High School. He coach- ed football until 1956 when his wife prevailed upon him to give it up. His Hazleton teams had a record of 29 wins and two ties against forty-four defeats. His best season was 1953 when the school compiled a 6-3 record. : His baseball teams captured pen- nants five out of six years. Last season he had a winner in school- boy ranks and in the Teener League but his team lost out in the Teener Tourney held in Wilkes-Barre. During his earlier coaching career at Plymouth High School, Brominski produced one county championship in the Wyoming Valley Conference. According to Supervising Prin- cipal James Martin,. the School Board's plan is to have Mr. Bro- minski take charge of Physical Ed- ucation in the Junior High School where he can work with young boys and develop them physically, as well as coach the varsity. “Our problem,” Martin said, ‘is to build school and team spirit and to keep the boys interested in sport. This year's varsity is com- posed almost entirely of seniors and juniors. Last year twenty-five boys came out for ninth grade foot- ball, eighteen stayed to the end. Only five of them are on this year’s squad. I am sure from his long years of working with boys, that ‘Eddie Brominski can keep them in- terested.” Mr. Brominski is married 0 the former Victoria Hazenski of Duryea, a graduate of Mansfield State Teach- ers College and a former Duryca teacher. They have one son, John, J., 13, a student in Eighth Grade. The Brominskis expect to make their home here just as soon as they can obtain a house. Game Commission's New District Headquarters instant communication with all of the thirty-one salaried officers in the Northeast. District. radio relay towers will be located at Mehoopany, Mount Pocono and Jim Thorpe. Tests were being Four made this week for a fourth relay tower at Elk Hill, near Montrose. Installation of short wave equipment in officers’ cars started yesterday. The building will have a permanent staff of four men and two girls. ied officers in the District and 300 deputies. Present There are thirty-one salar- headquarters’ officers are in Forty Fort State Bank the Valley Forge Building. headquarters at It is expected that the headquarters with its short wave equipment will be a valuable adjunct in the state-wide Civil Defense set-up. Carl C. Stainbrook, Sweet Valley, is head of Northeast District.
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