70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain DALLAS POST ORchard TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 4-5656 OR 4-7676 VOL 70, NO. 48, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1959 MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION TEN CENTS PER COPY — TEN PAGEL Balshaw Directs Handel Messiah Several Local People Take Part December 6 The Back Mountain community | may well take pride in the Decem- | Peg commemorative concert of | the "Wyoming Valley Oratorio Soci- ety, scheduled for St. Stephen's! Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre, it | was announced by Louie Weigand | Ayre, president. She December most fully local history Handel's immortal Messiah.” tion of pointed out that, the | 6 concert will offer the scored presentation in of George Frederick oratorio, ‘The Under the musical direc- Clifford = Balshaw, local | music lovers will have the oppor- tunity of hearing an exciting, and authentic version of the 18th cen- Mr. tury composer's score. Participating will be the Oratorio Society’s four-part chorus, promin- ent area soloists, and a Handel Sinfonietta orchestra of the type used in Handel's own day. Admission will general public. Mr. Balshaw resides on Grand- view Avenue, Goss Manor. One of the leading soloists for the con- cert will be Mrs. Clifford Balshaw, soprano, long identified with pro- | gress of the area oratorio move- ment. Mrs. Ayre, herself, is a resident of 60 Carverton ‘Road, Trucksville. In addition, the “Messiah” will have its share fx, the Back Mountain, Wo a cultural asset of both Wyoming Valley and northeastern Pennsylvania, the Wyoming Valley Oratorio Socicty has embarked on a long-run expansion program de- signed to place it on a par with leading oratorio groups such as the Bethlehem Festival. Achievement of that goal, says Mrs. Ayre, will bring heightened musical enjoy- ment to all in Wyoming Valley. It will also add to the prestige of the entire community throughout the nation. Student Who's Who MARY JANET FLUEGAL Mary Janet Fluegel, senior/ at Mansfield State Teachers College, has been chosen a member of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges for 1959- 1960. Jenet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. rand fees for the fellow be free to the | chorus! of vocalists : James Ide Aims ‘Toward Teaching Is Campus Leader At Mansfield State JAMES ROLAND DE Woodrow Wilson National Fellow: ship: Foundation has nominated James Roland Ide for consideration as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Fellows are expected to give ser- ious consideration to a career in college teaching: The 'award car- ries with it ‘a stipend of fifteen hun- dred dollars. The Foundation also pays direct ly to the graduate school tuition Nomina- tions will be carefully screened and one thousand of the seven thousand nominated will be finally chosen James Roland Ide is the son o and Mrs. Marcus B. Ide, 60 {Mill Street, Dallas. He is present- lly a senior at Mansfield State | Teachers College majoring in So | cial Science with a minor in En lish. | James is active in many extra | curricular activities. Among them [are College Players in which he will ‘have a minor role in Thorton Wild- ler’s “The Matchmaker” presented lon the 20th and 21st of this month | He is campus chairman, North- eastern Pennsylvania's ~~ Regional | Publicity Director, land a State Re- | gional Executive Committeeman for the Intercollegiate Conference on Government. es Jim is also a member of Kappa ‘Delta Pi, an honorary fraternity ' open to juniors and seniors ranking in the upper quintile of their class. If chosen for the fellowship, he [will do his graduate work on a | Master’s Degree in Political Science. Husband, Wife Die Within Days Eleven days after his wife died, Walter Billings, 76, passed away in | Nesbitt Memorial Hospital. He was buried Tuesday afternoon in Ward- an Cemetery. Rev. Arthur Mayo | and Rev. Robert Webster, present and former pastors of Trucksville Methodist Church, performed the: same offices for him that they had | performed for his wife a few days earlier, officiating from the Bron- son Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Richard Ma- Middle—District = Manager, Top—D. G. Chapman, commercial superintendent, conducts a small group of Rotarians through a sec- tion of Commonwealth's modern general offices. Jack Landis, explains to Dallas Rotarians at their weekly meet- ing held in Commonwealth Telephone Company’s general offices the facts that make commonwealth left, thers, Asher Weiss, William Loch- | man, William Williams, Sterling McMichael, and Harold Yorks. | Mr. Billings, returning Friday afternoon from a trip to see his daughter, in Sayre, stopped at Leonard's store before going to his home on Harris Hill Road. Here, he was taken ill, but recovered suf- ficiently to make it to his own driveway, where stop the car safely. A neighbor noticed that the car was parked at a peculiar angle, and investigated. Kineston Township ambulance took him to Nesbitt, where he died a few hours after admission. He had suffered a severe heart tack a number of years ago, while still a rural mail carrier for the Trucksville Post Office. Mr. Billings had been under an intense strain for the past three months, while his wife the former Mabel Totten, was at Nesbitt dur- ing her final illness. A native of Erie, Mr. Billings Cal H. Fluegel, Dallas, is a music moved. to this areal ss’ a young Xho and expects 10 tench, after man. Starting in 1909, he carried graduation. During her years as... for Trucksville RD 1 for a student at Mansfield, she has been a member of the Music Edu- cation Club, Freshman Chor'us, Marching Band, Concert Wind En- semble, Advanced Chorus, Com- munity Orchestra, Woodwind Quin- tet, and is now vice president of Lamb- da Mu. She is president of the Music Education Club. Candidates from 675 colleges and selected ‘on the universities were Women’s Athletic Association forty years, retiring ten years ago. a horse and buggy was the trans- portation, giving way to a car as roads were improved and cars be- came More common, He served as treasurer of the longed to Trucksville Fire Company; held various offices in Toby Creek Lodge IOOF; and was a member of Trucksville Methodist Church. basis of scholarship, participation He is survived by these children: and leadership in academic and |gleny T, Ivyland; Mrs. Edna Harris, extracurricular activities, citizen- supervising nurse at Robert Packer ship and service to the school, and usefulness to promise of future Mrs. director of Alfred M. the Sayre, wife = of Hospital, Camp, he was able to | at- | When he first started as a carrier, | Rural Mail Carriers’ Association; be- | Commonwealth Telephone Company | at a recent meeting. Following din- ine served in the company’s gen- eral offices, the members made group inspection tours of Common- | wealth’s local facilities. J. N. Landis, district manager, told Rotarians that Commonwealth, as third largest telephone company in the State, is actually a major industry of Greater Wyoming Valley. Encompassing nearly 5,000 square miles in its ten-district service | area, Commonwealth serves more than 70,000 telephones and has a | : in June when he fell down a flight | | had been | |{ since. | Al plant valuation exceeding $22 mil. In addition to local service, | the Company does more than $7 million yearly in toll calls. It em- | ploys 540 people on its staff. Manager Landis highlighted Com- monwealth’s intensive moderniza- | tion and mechanization program | over the past ten years and noted | that today 91 percent of its plant is dial operated. The remainder is | scheduled for conversion to auto- | lion. | matic service within the next few | years. | Landis noted that right now Commonwealth is spending $377,000 in the immediate Dallas area on central office equipment additions, new cable construction and further service improvements. To Canvass For Home Lehman Osage Lodge 712 will { make a door to door canvass for the Sunbury Orphanage December 2 at 7:30. Clothing and toys for children up to eighteen will be gratefully received. Dallas Rotary Club Members Are Guests Of Commonwealth Telephone Dallas Rotary Club was guest of ¢ Rites Today For | William Bond William Bond, Shaver Avenue, Pennsylvania Hospital, will be buried versity of Philadelphia, | afternoon | Rev. Robert I}. Yost and Rev. Ho- ward Harrison will conduct ser- vices from the Kniffen Home, South Main Street at 2 p.m. Mr. Bond, 73, ror reg who ‘was inj of outside cellar steps, {in failing health ever patient in General Hospital, he was transferred by Kingston Township ambulance to University of Pennsyl- vania Hospital last Wednesday. A native of Wilkes-Barre, son of tion until fifteen years ago. when he moved to Shavertown. He was a member of Shavertown tions. Until retirement, he was a fore- man of the cable department at Hazard Wire Rope Co. Before join- ing the Hazard force, he owned and operated a grocery store on East Northampton Street. Surviving are his wife the former Maude Poad, sister of Theodore Poad, Kingston Township tax col- | lector; a sister, Mrs. William Har- | ris, Newark; and several nieces and I nerhews. Staffing the ambulance Fredericks, Yeust and Pugh. were who died Sunday afternoon in Uni- ! this | in Oaklawn Cemetery. Funeral | the late Thomas and Betsy Vivian | Bond, he lived in the Heights sec- | Metho- | dist Church and its men’s organiza- | the third largest independent telephone company in the State and 27th in size of the 4700 indepen- dent companies in the nation Bottom—Hugh Carr, right traffic commercial en- gineer, explains to an interested group of Rotar- ians the generating plant for Dallas Central office switching equipment. Kingston Township Supervisors continuing program of street im- provements has borne considerable fruits this year under the direc- tion of Road Superintendent Ar- thur Smith. At least six major projects have been completed and others are being planned by the Supervisors. Among the streets paved were; Staub Road, and Chestnut Street, Trucksville, and’ Chestnut Street, and Maple Street, Shavertown. Among those resurfaced were Le- high Street, and two miles on Harris Hill Road. Also constructed was the new road beyond the White-Church-on- the-Hill. Within recent was , laid along Cliffside Avenue, correcting a drainage situation in hat area. These major improvements were tanance of streets, which included grading and patching of pot holes. Materials used were from Mathers Construction Com- pany -and Airport Sand & Gravel Company at their low bids. The Kingston Township Road De- partment operates two big trucks ber of miscellaneous pieces of road working equipment. Shortly a new truck with plow will be added to the available equipment. Presently the department is at work paving the parking at the new Kingston Township Building which will be put in use after the first of the year. The Road De- partment is also doing most of the interior work at the building which was recently taken over from Kingston Township Veterans Association. Regular employees of the Road Department in addition to Road Miles Schooley, Shales, ver and Zigmund Molesky. Llectod President William L. Conyngham, Hillside Farms, was elected president of Pennsylvania Holstein ‘Association at the annual banquet culminating the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Association, November 18, 19 and 20 at Nittany Lion Inn, Pennsyl- vania State University. Among the local people attead- ing the banquet were Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Conyngham, C. S. Hemen- way, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Button, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Conyng- ham, Ralph Sands, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith of Springville, and Ted Hack of Stillwater. Jobs At Dallas Postoffice Applications for holiday mail | service may be made now at Dallas | Post office, according to Joseph Polacky, postmaster. Preference will as in former years, be given to | veterans. The holiday rush is be- | ginning, and a number of extra 2 workers will be needed. weeks new pipe | all in addition to the regular main- | purchased | and one pickup as well as a num- | Superintendent Smith are: Richard | William | Daubert, Michael Mintz, Gerald Cul- | To The Victors Go The Awards ~ President Arthur Ross of Dallas Rotary Club presents the old shoe foot- Many Kingston Township Streets Were Improved During The Summer Edwards Bags Bear Tuesday Five Lehman Men InsHunting Party Withjn two hours after they en- tered the woods at the headwaters of Kasson Brook Tuesday morning a party of five Lehman Township men had a beautiful 275-pound black bear. i Harry “Bucky” Edwards made the kill with a single shot in the head just back of the ears at a distance of 75 yards. ‘In the party were John Stofko, | Elmer Sweglin, Joe Niezgoda and | Alfred Sweglin. The men have | been hunting in that area for the past five years but this was the first they ever caught sight of a bear. A beautiful animal with soft jet | black coat, the men carefully | carried their prize the two miles | out of the woods. It was noon | before they reached their waiting Jeep. Describing their trip, Bucky said: “We were at the top of the moun- tain at 7 and by the time we had walked about and established our | positions it must have been 8. It was a little chilly there on the ledge and I was just buttoning my coat when I heard a twig snap and saw the bear scampering in the distance. He looked like a big bowl of jelly as his! hair fluffed forward and back as he bounced along. Then I fired. It was all over so quickly, it took a little of ithe fun out of it. But it'is a beautiful bear, fat with a most beautiful coat.” Bucky expects to have made into a rug. | “Did y'ever step out of bed barefooted onto a thick bearskin ‘rug?’ asked Buck, “It's wonder- | full” Long Impressed By New Tractors Sweef Valley Men At Sales Meeting | Charles Long, owner, and John { Recine, salesmanager of Charles H. | Long Company, Sweet Valley, at- | tended the Massey-Harris “ Pageant | of Profits ”’ Saturday in Baltimore. | There as they sat in bleachers | with 300 dealers, they saw the new | Massey-Ferguson line for 1960 pa- | raded around the arena. As each | piece reached the spotlight, its | features were explained to the deal- | ers assembled from New Jersey, the skin | Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. Following a box luncheon, the dealers adjourned tp the Timonium Huntsmen,s Club where it was an- | nounced that Massey-Ferguson is now the World’s largest manufac- turer of wheeled tractors. It was also announced that the firm has purchased the Perkins Motor Co., of Coventry, England, World's larg- est producers of diesel motors. Massey-Ferguson in the past two years has had an 80% increase in business. Also displayed for the dealers was the firm’s light indus- trial equipment. Following dinner, Performance Bonus checks were distributed to dealers, part of $14 million dollars lin similar checks distributed to Massey-Ferguson dealers at twenty- | three such meetings held in the i United States. ‘New Controller ForLinear Inc. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors of Linear, Incorporat- ed, Bruno Gruppo was elected Con- | troller of the Company. announced yesterday by A. W. Swartz, Jr., Executive Vice Pres- ident. Mr. Gruppo has been living in Cedar Grove, New Jersey and has spent most of his life in the New | York City area. Before coming to Linear, he was employed by Inter- national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation as. Assistant Control- ler of their Components Division. Prior to this, he was Controller of Rel Plastics Corporation in East Paterson, New Jersey. Mr. Gruppo was educated in New York City and received his Mas- ters degree in Business Adminis- tration from New York University | Graduate School of Business. Mr. Gruppo spent. three years in the U. S. A. F. as a B-29 navigator. He is married and has five Child- ren. This was , Two Local Men Made Officers Pioneer Mig. Advances Berger and Shaskin Board of Directors of Pioneer Manufacturing Company, Inc., has elected two Back Mountain men, Samuel Shaskan, Shrine Acres, and Louis W. Berger, Chase, to the position of vice president. LOUIS W. BEE: R Mr. Berger becomes vice president i oy dent in charge of production and } planing. SAMUEL SHASKIN Mr. Shaskan took his degree at New York University. He accepted a post as Industrial Engineer with Pioneer in 1948, coming to the com- pany from the I. Miller Shoe Cor- poration. During the past eleven years, Mr. Shaskan has held suc- cessive executive positions | with Pioneer. Two years ago, he was appointed plant manager, a job he will retain-along with his new post. He is a member of the American Philatelic Society and .the Brother- hood Council of Wyoming Valley. Mr. Berger, who is a graduate of Fordham University, joined the staff at Pioneer seven years ago as controller of the company. Form- erly, he was associated with Gen- eral Electric Company. Schenecta- dy, where he completed their eox- ecutive training program. articles have been written by Mr. Berger, ohe of which appeared n the National Association of Cost Accountants Bulletin. He is a member of the Irem Temple and | Brotherhood Council of Wyoming Valley. | In a bulletin, released by A. R. Landsman, chairman of the board, both men were cited for the active part they have played in the ex- ecutive direction of the company | since the change in ownership | which occurred about two years | ago. Pioneer Manufacturing Company, manufac- Sever: Inc., one of the leading | turers of children's dresses in the | country, maintains two plants in the Valley, employing approximate- ly 600 people. The preduct is chip- ped throughout the United States and to many foreign countries. Christmas Dinner | Jessie Austin Brickel Memorial Class of Dallas Methodist Church | met with Mrs. M. J. Brown, Lake Street. Friday night. | Mrs. Thomas Kingston presided. | | Plans were made to have a Christmas turkey dinner at the | Church dining room on Friday, | December 18 at 6:30. Serving will be by the W.S.C.S. of the Church. Mrs. M.C. Brown, Mrs. Fred L. | Welsh and Mrs. Kenneth Rice are | on the decorating committee. It was decided not to exchange gifts. The dinner will be for members of | the class only and they are not to bring a guest. Reservations for members must be made by Mon- | day, December 14 with Mrs. Richard Owens, Davenport Street. Four Bear Shot profession and society. band at Dallas Junior High School; | . . hall trophy to. doicantains Joe. Lonasky. 2 Tors i . So SEN Boy Bitten By Dog To Sing At Shavertown op 9 co-cap aig a opashy and Larry Thomas of the Lake Heads Transportation . D hildr > Ton tara hild: | Lehman Scotties championship football team. | Chester Roberts, Sweet Valley Spots Sixty eer oi Ten ee oe Ss ; % | Dallas Township police warn dog | Couples Club of Shavertown| The team, winners of the West Side Conference championship, lost only = L- L. Richardson has been named painting contractor, was among 1 ; ; i Rivne nice gr: re al t 2 owners that they must keep their Methodist Church = will present ORG sae did that te Forte. Fort ? head of Transportation in the | those hunting bear in the Nort- Charles Hemenway reports having | Cranford, N. J; Mrs. E. C. Hulme, dogs on leash. A Record carrier | Wilkes College Glee Club in a con- rum York. local Civil Defense set-up, a position | mont area where four bear were spotted sixty deer Sunday on a trip ory Towanda; and Mrs. L. B. Ellsworth, {hoy was) bitter, last iweek ou. Mid- from Hillside Farm to Benton, | ands L Members of the squad, coaches and school officials were the guests of formerly held by the late Norti| Washington, D.C. land Drive, Rotary at dinner Thursday night at Irem Country Club. ' Berti. taken on Chet wasn’t so lucky. Tuesday. cert Sunday evening, December 6 | at 8 in the Church sanctuary. |
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