70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST ORchard TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 4-5656 OR 4-7676 VOL. 70, No. 43, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1959 Earl Parsons Linear Gives 95 Claims He Was Pints Of Blood Beaten Sunday [To Bloodmobile Truck Driver For Separate Donations Gavy's Market Was From Linear, Red Rock, Set On By 3 Youths And Misericordia A Kingston youth, Robert Harron Red Cross Bloodmobile received 169 Division Street, is being held in | 2 ninety-five pint blood donation Luzerne County Prison in lieu of from Linear Inc. in Fernbrook on $500 bail which he was unable to ednesday afternoon, and sixty- raise when given a hearing Monday three pints from Red Rock on Mon- night before Justice of the Peace |98Y : : : Frederick Anderson of Shavertown Linear has a donation at its own on assault and battery charges. plant, rather than send employees The charges grew out of the beat- to the semi-annual Blood Day at ing- of Earl Parsons, Trucksville,| Dallas Borough school, and Red truck driver for Gavey’s Market, Rock, far from any central point, Sunday night near Blaze’s stone furnishes donors under the same house on the Luzerne-Trucksville arrangement. RighWay 2 on Natona sends donors to the Dallas P 23 N Borough School on Blood Donor Day. , Parsons, 23, a 4-year Navy veter- Fourteen donors cooperated October an, was unable to attend the hear- : 9, when Dallas netted 124 pints. ing because he is a patient at Nes- RS ne Pah : : / College Misericordia has its own bitt Memorial Hospital recovering Blood Donation Day, staged at some from a broken nose and other in- ror time during the school year. juries. Parsons told Chief of Police Jesse Lake Street Intersection Coslett and Asst. Chief Herbert Up- dyke, who apprehended Harron, Closed October 26, 27 Lake Street, at Center Hill Road, that he was returning home in his will be closed to through traffic wn car about 11 p.m. from Paul- { Monday and Tuesday, according ‘to ing’s place in Edwardsville when his car was forced off the highway by | announcement by John Landis, Com- monwealth Telephone Company. another automobile. Three youths jumped out of the other car and with the exclamation: ‘Parsons you Conduits will be laid across the have had it” started beating him. | street from a new manhole, com- pletely blocking access. Residents of Lake Street will not Parsons was momentarily knocked out. When he recovered conscious- be hindered from travel to central Dallas. ness his attackers were gone. With blood streaming from his: face and nose, Parsons got back in| Cars headed toward College Mis his car and returning to Paulings|ericordia, customarily using Lake where he found a friend who took Street, may take the Lake highway him to the hospital. | to Center Hill Road, turn right, and Harron maintains his innocence reach Lake Street at Girvan's with- and has offered a number of alibis out hindrance, or reach it by way which police are checking. He has of Claude Street and East Center a previous police record. | Hill Road. Beaumont—Champions of The Bi-County League Kneeling, front row: Percy McMillan, first base; Alex Wilson, pitcher; Charles Everetts, pitcher; Carl Sickler,. catcher; Herb Goodwin, infielder. Standing: Harry Derhammer, manager; Bob Harris, infielder; Carl Crispell, outfielder; Bob Bellas, outfielder; Carl Straley, infielder; Larry % and Bob Bellas. Crispell, outfielder; Dick Searfoss, infielder; Mel Crispell, catcher. Lake Street is acquiring a new look, with more and more properties passing from private individuals to Col- lege Misericordia ownership. For a number of years Rosary Hall, in the center picture, has been in active oper- MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION A Trucksville young man who made his home with his brother, Phillip, on Highland Avenue, Trucks- ville Gardens, was instantly killed yesterday morning when the auto- mobile in which he was riding was struck by a train in York. He was Donald Straub, 23, form- | erly of Kingston, who has made his { home with his brother since the death of his mother six months ago in Kingston. A graduate of Kingston High School and Wilkes College, he was an employee of Sears Resbuck & Trucksville Young Man Is Killed | Delegate To Los Angeles When Train Strikes Car In York Company in York, but spent his | weekends here. He was going to | work with a friend when their car | was struck yesterday morning. A former member of St. Ignatius Church in Kingston, he attended St. | Therese’s Church in Shavertown | after moving to Trucksville. | He leaves his brother, Philip, dis- | trict representative of Proctor & | Gamble Company, and a brother, | Walter, of Stroudsburg. Funeral details were not available at press time. Only one week remains in the 1960 Wyoming Valley United Fund Campaign which ends October 28. The first district chairmen on the West Side to make their 100% quota were Mrs. Gomer Elston and Mrs. Fred Dodson of Kunkle. Mrs. Fletcher C. Booker, Jr., and Mrs. Donald Davis report that Back Mountain Area A- has reached 43% {of its $5,745 goal. Area A includes | Dallas Borough, Dallas Township, | Harveys Lake and Franklin Town- ship. | Back Mountain Area B, under { Mrs. Charles Frantz and Mrs. J. B. Marshall, Jr., has attained only 39% of its goal of $4,564. Included in Area B are Jackson, Lehman, Shavertown, Trucksville and Car- | verton. | Fund workers gathered at a meet- ing Monday night at St. Stephen's Church House, Wilkes-Barre, to find that quotas were far below the 70% that should have been attained by | this time. | Captains of the Back Mountain lareas urge all solicitors to go back A young alert team, with several of its members still playing high school ball, Beaumont had twenty wins and two losses during the regular season. It won two straight from Silvara in the semi-finals, and defeated Mehoopany two straight in the finals. Outstanding batters were Mel and Larry Crispell ation as an adjunct of the United Fund Campaign Dragging Its Heels In Back Mountain Area on calls that have been unanswered and to get returns in. The next meeting will be at St. Stephen's Monday night, October 26, and the Victory Dinner will be Wednesday when final returns must be made. Many organizations are depend- ent on the United Fund and will be forced to accept drastic cuts in "funds if the 1960 goal of $$1,273,000 | is not reached. David Kunkle In Hospital Flare-Up Of Infection After-Math Of Accident David Kunkle who was taken to Veterans Hospital by ambulance on Monday night, is improving under treatment with anti-biotics. David, almost fatally injured June 16, 1958, in a car crash near Pa- tuxent Naval Base, hung between esda Naval Hospital. Meningitis de- veloped as an aftermath of his injury. Surgeons believe that, meningoc- occus organisms eradicated by {former flared up again to ‘eause the presen illness. treatment, t dan Kunkle, Lehman Avenue, was come an instructor in X-Ray at Temple University Dental School. Civil Defense Film Stefan Hellersperk will speak and show a film on Civil Defense at the meeting of Gate of Heaven PTA on Tuesday night. Annual turkey dinner sponsored by the Dallas Rotary Club will be ber 5, in the Jackson Township Fire Hall. | This affair has grown in popularity | until this year ticket sales of 1000 | are anticipated. The dinner is pre- | pared by the Women’s Auxiliary of | life and death for months at Beth- ! David, son of Mr. and Mrs. War- | held on Thursday evening, Novem- | Lester B. Squier is one of three school administrators chosen at a recent meeting of Pennsylvania PSEA to represent ad- ministration from the entire North- eastern tier of counties at a national convention in Los Angeles June 26 | to July 1 next summer. Mr. Squier, supervising principal of Lake-Lehman Schools, will drive to the Coast, according to present plans, taking with him his wife and two sons, pursuing the route west, and taking more time for sight-seeing on the return trip. » Mr. Squier’s selection is an honor | for the Back Mountain and for Lu- | zerne County. Anthony Marchaki- { tus, Lake-Lehman high school prin- | cipal, and former. president of the {Luzerne County organization of | PSEA, placed Mr. Squier’s name in { nomination. Mr. Squire has been favorably known in the Northeast- jern Pennsylvania association for ‘many years. He has been administrator at | Lehman since 1948, first of Lehman Schools, then of Lehman-Jackson, | then Lehman-Jackson-Ross, | more recently the five-way Lake- { Lehman jointure. | From 1942 to 1948 he was as- | | not completely sistant superintendent of schools in | verton Monday morphing. Efforts of | ; Wyoming County. He started his school teaching career in rural | schools at Nicholson, and was for la time high school principal there. i He graduated fromi Mansfield to have left Dallas Tuesday to be- | State Teachers College and from | to eight other chicken houses con- Pennsylvania State University. Tax Collector In Hospital | Dallas Borough ' Tax Collector, Arthur Dungey is making a good re- covery at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where he underwent an emergency I hernia operation last week. Rotary Is Preparing To Serve 1,000 At Annual Turkey Dinner James Besecker, general chairman, reports that the following are serv- | ing as committee chairmen: ticket | sales, Myron S. Baker; assisted by | | Phil Moore, Bill Krimmel and Fred Jennings; door, Dr. L. E. Jordan, assisted by Dr. Stanley Hozempa; "ticket sales, door—Harold Titman, assisted by Harvey Johnson; in Northeastern | shortest | and | the Jackson Fire Company and serv- ' charge of waiters, Dan Chapman and |ing is done by the men of the Ro- | Hanford Eckman, Jr.; kitchen, Red {tary Club. Serving will start at 5 Ambrose, Paul Gross, Jack Landis, | p.m. and continue until everyone is Joe Sekera, Ed Lannan; ice cream | | taken care of. | Dallas Women of Rotary will hold | a bake sale on the lower level of | the Fire Hall while dinner is being served on the main floor. College. More recently, resi- dences of sufficient size have been purchased and con- verted to dormitory use. Standing on the pavements of Avila Hall are Judith | and milk, Charlie Roberts and Wil- son Garringer. Proceeds from the dinner are used by the club for the promotion of i civic projects in the Back Mountain. Vandals Damage Cars With Wax And Lipstick Vandals used lipstick and wax on both car windows and bodies in the parking lot at Prince of Peace Epis- copal Church Tuesday night, in ad- | dition to soaping windshields. | This, says Chief of Police Russell | Honeywell, is an expensive pastime | for parents of children who did the damage. Wax and lipstick on paint jobs add up to new paint jobs. Par- | ents are responsible. Honeywell has a lead on two of the pre-Hallowé’en | pranksters. This is the first serious | damage this year. Opening Of Bids Postponed Again Date Is Now Set For November 12 Inability of architects Lacy, Ath- erton & Davis to get specifications for alternate heating into the hands of contractors in time for them to be included in their bids for the new Dallas Senior High School | Building has forced Dallas School’ District Authority to postpone open- | ing of bids until its regular meeting | on Thursday, November 12. Originally bids were scheduled to be opened on Thursday night, Octo- ber 29. First specifications prepared by the architects were for electrical heating only. Objections to electrical heating by certain taxpayers caused the State Department of Public In- struction to issue an order for alter- nate specifications to be prepared for coal, oil and gas heating as well. Flames Destroy Brooder House Five hundred baby chicks were | burned to death, and a 150 foot | building destroyed by fire at Car-, | West Wyomingj# Franklin Town- | ship, and Harding volunteer fire | companies kept the flames from | | spreading to a barn where great | numbers of hens were housed, and | taining between 5,000 and 6,000 | { chickens. | Elwood Lord, owner and operator | Lof the poultry firm on Grange Hall | Road, expected the arrival of 2,100 | baby chicks Wednesday morning. ‘He has one more chicken house in | which to place ‘them. A brooder unit may have ex- | ploded under accumulation of gas, | when too little draft was left to | provide proper combustion when | banked. There were seven other | such units in the building. | Firemen report the barn, very | close to the burning chicken house, ‘was saved with difficulty. The loss is estimated between $5,000 and $6,000. Elwood, son of the late John Lord and brother of Allison Lord, who died three months ago, is carrying on the poultry business for the family, sending quantities of eggs to market, and supplying fryers. | Wagner In Hospital Frank Wagner, custodian at Dal- | | las Junior High School, is a patient | | at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where he was taken Tuesday in the Dallas Community Ambulance following a ! heart attack. TEN CENTS PER COPY — TWELVE PAGES Bi-Partisan Group Will Oppose Borough Republican Candidates One of the few communities in the Back Mountain area where there will be any local contests of consequence in the general elec- tion, Dallas Borough will have a full slate of candidates to oppose the regular Republican nominees. Calling themselves the ‘‘Bi-Parti- san Candidates for better local gov- ernment,” the slate is composed of three Republican and three Demo- cratic candidates all of whom ob- tained Democratic nominations dur- ing the primary election. Heading the ticket are four can- didates for Borough Council led by Fred Jennings who was narrowly defeated for the Republican nomi- nation in the primaries. His run- ning mates are Harry Burns, S. War- ren Yarnal and Clemens Sudol. All four are college men who G. WARREN YARNAL Candidate For Council > DONALD CLARK Candidate For Justice-Of-The-Peace have a yen for community service and who are embarking for the first time in politics. Jennings is an electrical engineer, graduate of Penn State, and form- erly with the Glen Alden Company. Burns = attended Clarion State Teachers College and North Carolina State College. He served three years with the U. S. Army in the middle East. He is industrial sales rep- resentative of Singer Sewing Ma- chine Company and is head of Civil Defense for Dallas Borough. Yarnal, a graduate of Juniata Col- lege with a master’s degree from University of Pittsburgh, is chief Psychiatric = Social Worker with | Children’s Service Gefiter in Wilkes- Bame. He served thtee years in | the! Europeafi Theatre during World | Wak IL# He is former president of ' Da { Borough PTA and is active in "Civil Defense and Boy Scout work. Sudol, a graduate of Seton Hall | University, East Orange, N. J., is |a chemist and now plant manager of J. Roberts Manufacturing Com- | pany in Forty Fort. During the war | he did work in blood plasma for | the treatment of shock. He is active |in the Holy Name Society of Gate lof Heaven Church. The group’s candidate for School Board is Thomas E. Hillyer who holds a master’s degree in educa- tion from ' Penn State, and was formerly superintendent of schools FRED JENNINGS Candidate For Council HARRY BURNS Candidate For Council He is a partner and of Mahaffey Oil | in Canton. general manager Company. For Justice of the Peace Donald Clark will carry the banner for the Bi-Partisan group. He is a graduate of Ithaca public schools, Hargrave Military Academy and Temple Uni- versity. Mr. Clark spent three years reading law before entering the cement business as northeastern Pennsylvania = representative for Universal Atlas. | Acting as spokesman for the Bi- Partisan group, Donald Clark, a registered Democrat, said: ‘“We feel (Continued on Section A, Page 8) Doyle, Betty Ringle, and Mary Frances Burns. The build- Three College Misericordia Dormitories On Lake Street ing was the former Murphy home. At the entrance of Rosary Hall are Marilyn Gaita, Judith Leydecker, Regina Shehadi, and Joan Synave. Coming down the walk Burke and Lois Holzbach. This building is the former Titman home. from Mercy Hall are Esther
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