70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain THE DALLAS POST TWO EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers ORchard 4-5656 OR 4-7676 nec VOL. 72, NO. 28, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1960 Top left: The refreshment stand 53 a thriving business under the chairmanship of © Mrs. John M. Rogers. : : Everell V. Chadwick, Luzerne County Farm Agent, ‘breathed new life into the Plants and Produce Booth when he took over the chair- manship only a few days before the Auction opened. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jones pur- chase a ‘package of Caroline Caper- oon. All the popcorn products were given to the Auction by Georgs | Arzente of Huntsville, founder of the Chocolate Popcorn Company. Members of the Antiques com- mittee, Mrs. George Shallenberger, Mrs. Raymon Hedden, irs. Char- lottee Cardon, Mr. Mrs. Frank Slaff and DNirs. Janet Jenkins supervise the table beneath | the cherry trees. Top left center: this is one of the best shots of a late afternoon auec- ‘W. H. Pierce and | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION tion crowd ever: taken; Judge Harold Flannery in bearskin 1 hat sells-a Confederate gun given to | the Auction by Myron Baker: at his right. | Master Chef Andrew ‘J. Sordoni receives a certificate and life mem- | bership in. Daddow-Isaacs = Post American Legion at the Ox Roast {from ' Past Commander . Thomas | Reese and “Edward Buckley while Howard Risley, Myron Baker, Hugh Carr, William O’Brien, Commander- | elect and Wayne King look on. Pro- bably no man has contributed more | to the economic development of the Back Mountain Region than Senator Sordoni whose Commonwealth Tele- phone Company has its headquarters in Dallas. Center Top: No one enjoyed the Auction more than Fred Jennings and his family of daughters. You'll have to ‘look twice to spot Mrs. Jennings. Mrs. T. M. B. Hicks poses for a | picture - by Artist Gregory Beisel whose Right Bank Booth, an in- | novation this year; was popular. with art” students. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis LeGrand have a choice seat in the front row. The Book Club * which * Mrs. LeGrand established among her neighbors was the forerunner ‘of Back Mountain Memorial Library. With them is a pretty ‘Auction fan; Mrs. Joseph Le- Grand of Philadelphia. Right Center Top: Part of the throng that attended the Ox Roast on Thursday evening. Atty. Mitchell Jenkins sells the it is held .by Howard Risley who smiling at the crowd. Robert Bachman, president of the library, assisted by Robert Laux on | jar that stands here at one end of | his right and Dr. Lester Jordan on |the antiques table. TEN CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGES Everyone Has A Good Time At The Library Auction his left sells. a popular mode of transportation for the youngest set. Dr. Jordan will’ be : Auction chair- prize baby lamb of the Auction as |man next year. Right Top: Mary Weir, veteran of rediscovered his .old coonskin hat, | the first Auction fourteen years ago, a relic of the first auction, just a | counts the pennies as Pat Reynolds few hours before the fourteenth be- [looks over her shoulder at the ticket gan. That's John Butler on the right | wagon. Another Mary Weir! (Mrs. Walter) helps with the sales. Ralph Hazeltine, bought the batter The Auction has no more enthusi- astic boosters than Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Slaff and their son, Lyle: Here they are ready to bid from the first row in; front of the block. This might be a scene from Mac~ beth for trees moved at the Auction especially the beauties contributed by: Bucky Edwards of Huntsville Nursery. A flowering plum" which Bucky sells for less than $5. brought [2 over the block, —Photo by Kozemchak Alphabet Is Out So Far As New Telephone Numbers Go Harding exchange of Common- wealth Telephone Company will be converted to All Numer] Calling on Qeptember 19 with ‘each -telsphorts riumber being’ composed oi Seven digits, J. N. Landis, district 1@an- agen ‘announced’ today: r. Landis” announcement was Wis to caution all business con- cerns to contact the telephone com- pany’s business office before order- ing new stationery, calendars and | . the dike. These items usually bear | the firm's telephone number and it | i | cipation in the nationwide toll] «| dialing network. ‘Under this plan, | sxchanges were giyen exchange | tember. A call to the business office will confirm what the correct num- | { ber will be. Until now, 2-5 numbering was employed to all an exchange’s parti- | name designations such as ANdrew | plus a five digit number. The num- | [for example, a typical Harding number will: be listed 388-2xxx. The | new numbers will make Common- Bp Harding exchange a part of the nationwide network. The truth of the matter is Lan- | "dis explained, the nation’s telephone | system is doing away with ' the | alphabet. Peculiar ‘as it may seem, | the reason is that the telephone | people ate running out of—of all | things, phone numbers. | Since 1950 nearly 24 million have been added in this country. Each one needed a number with a word | prefix that people could understand, ber would call for dialing AN and | like Orchard, Neptune or Evergreen. the five digits. In September, will have seven digits. Harding numbers | The - first | will - Setinitely be changed in Sep- : three digits, Landis said, will be 388. Dallas Rotary Club Seats New Officers New officers of Dallas Rotary Club pose’ with District. Governor. Joseph Greco in front of the- fireplace at Irem Temple Country Chub. Back row, left: to right; Directors John Landis, Myron Baker, Herman Otto, sergeant-at-arms; Directors Daniel Chapman, Walter Mohr and Leslie Warhola, secretary, | The problem of finding such prefixes was getting tougher all the time. After a lot of study, the experts concluded that there was only one [Front row: W. B. Jeter, treasurer; Joseph Sekera, president; Mr. Greco; | Arthur , Ross, retiring president, | James Alexander, vice president. thing to do to still give folks the service they want: Change the sys- tem. So, eventually phone - numbers won't be partly letters and partly numbers, like Andrew 54321 but all digits: 265-4321." (Actually, as far as the phone system is concern- ed, you're really dialing numbers when you dial letters). ‘All numerals can be remembered for la short time just as easily as letter-numeral combinations,” Lan- dis observed. “That's how most numbers are used: You look it up in the book and remember it just long enough to dial. It takes a while longer to remember the all-number ones per- manently, but most people remem- ber only a few, anyway.” Manager Landis went on to ex- plain about the alphabet. There are only 540 combinations to two letters which form words easily understood and distinguished, and which also will work out in telephone switching equipment, (Try the 9-5 combin- ation, for instance, Xkalibur? 1961 Auction Head Yling?) The experts nearly went | goofy trying to find more words and gave up. To add more digits to numbers would make them harder to remember. (Utopia 8-973621). So | it was decided to do away with the pesky prefixes and use simply num- ber combinations. This means tele- phone customers will have the same total number of digits to remember —there will simply be no name as a prefix. In a given area, the plan will give the phoné companies a much greater number of dial com- binations, Landis concluded again reminding residents and business men that, in September, Harding will have seven digit numbers. For those contem- plating new stationery, calling cards or calendars, the thing to do is call Commonwealth's business office for the new numbers. Jess Hann Improved Jesse Hann, Sweet Valley straw- berry grower and former member of | | the Ross Township school board, up and around again after suffering a heart attack, .DR. L. E. JORDAN Dr. L. E. Jordan will be general | chairman of Back Mountain Memor- | { ial Library Auction for 1961) moving | present | Auction. up from co-chairman of the 1960 Myron Baker, general chairman for 1960, steering the most success- ful Library Auction in fourteen years to a triumphant conclusion Monday night, made the announcement from the Auction block. Dr. Jordan, Trucksville, is ex- tremely active in the community. Each year, the increasingly import- ant Library Auction is headed by | a key man of the area, who selects | as ‘his successor a man of equal calibre. : Next year will be Back Mountain Library’s fifteenth auction. At Farmer's Market Farmers Market has finished with strawberry sales, and ‘is now re- ceiving peas and string beans. Straw- berry crop was excellent. od 1S | Full Moon At Aaction i above the treetops the nights of the Library Auction ? {and seek a Did you see that] full moon rising : The new realty transfer tax for Dallas Borough was read and passed for the first reading Tuesday night at the July meeting of Dallas Bor- ough Council. The second reading will be at an adjourned meeting on Tuesday, July 26, and the final reading will be at the August meeting on August 8. A one percent tax will be levied on all property sold. A resolution was passed authoriz- ing the President and Secretary to meet with the Supervisors of Kings- ton and Dallas Townships on Mon- day night, July 25, to enter into a proposed contract withy Roy Weston Associates Inc., of Newtown Square for a feasiblity survey of the area for sewage disposal purposes. The Secretary Robert Brown was authorized to order new speed signs for Huntsville Road where the speed | limit will be set at 25 miles per hour. He was also authorized to | check all defaced and missing stop signs and have them replaced. The Secretary was also authorized to advertise for bids for a new truck for the Street Department. Councilman Robert, Post reported that the storeroom in the Borough Building by the State Liquor Control Board needs some interior painting and roof repairs. authority to, negotiate a new .lease 5 percent increase in rental. : Building permits in the amount of $27,000 were approved. They include two new dwellings one for Robert Warner. on Pinecrest Avenue and one for Herbert Dr eher on Elizabeth Street. Robert Moore reporting for the police committee said nineteen arrests were made for traffic viola- tions involving passing red. lights, driving too fast for. conditions and reckless driving... Speed traps are producing. results. in cutting down excess speed and will be continued. Councilman Wilbur Davis with | the assistance of engineers from. U. G, I is making survey of street He was given! I Council Passes New Realty Transfer Tax At First Reading Tuesday Wight lighting with a view to moving or improving some of those now in place. Burgess Tom Morgan and Grace Cave head of the Sanitation Com- mittee were urged to “get tough” with chronic violators of the Bor- ough’s septic tank ordinances. Council adjourned at 9:30. All members were present. Rural Carriers Safe Drivers Rural carriers . have completed alm®&t 47,000 © miles of during the past ‘year without acci- dent. The total for all vehicles out of the Dallas office is close to 54,000 accident-free miles. Carriers and the milage driven follows: No. 1 Lewis J. Reese, 11,- 688.70 -miles; No. 2 Sheldon D. Drake, 11,840.80; No. 3. John J. Juris, 11,111.20; No. 4. A. J. Bellas, 12,347.75 for a total for all carriers of 49,988.45. The ‘city delivery and parcel post truck was driven 6,656 miles by the following drivers Joseph. Lavelle, Edward dabatch, Edward McDade and Edward Buckley for a grand total of 53,644.45 miles. County Fires, Hires A Harveys Lake woman was hired, and a. Dallas RD 1 man: fired, in the continuing shake-up of Luz- erne County employees last week. |: Louella- Gosart was returned to the county payroll after several years absence, taking a clerk typist pos- ition at $3,042.96 in the assessor's office. Paul M. Mahler, ‘Dallas RD 1 lost his job in the Road and Bridge Department. driving | Upping Salaries : ‘Essential To Decent Living Mellman Proposes Merit System As Teacher Incentive Dr. Robert A. Melllman, stating flatly Tuesday night that he did not see how some of the employees of Dallas iSchool District lived on their present salaries, recommended to the directors that a ten month schedule be adopted, and that along with mandatory increases, bait should be offered which would make higher standards of performance a challenge. "This systémi"is approved in ‘better: school districts’ throughout 'Penn~ sylvania, he ‘added. By initiating a merit ‘system, with salaries which could be expected to exceed ‘the specified rate as a bonus for height-: ened performance, Dr. Mellman said he hoped to encourage faculty meem- bers to ‘work toward = master teacher ratings. This attainment, he further stated, could be expected only_ if teachers remained in school after the children left, ‘and arrived earlier than the students, to give adequate time for preparation. 1 He expressed himself as aghast at the low rate offered to home bound teachers, explaining that such in- struction is of#a’ highly specialized kind, must be tailored to fit the individual child, - and ‘requires an enormous ‘amount of preparation. A rate ‘of $4 ‘an hour is the least that should be offered. Salary increases cannot be made until transfers from the recently adopted budget are in effect. Ninety days must’ elapse between adoption of budget and legal OK for transfer of items. The board deferred action on Mr Mellman’s recommendations until legally recognized steps could be taken, when the motion would be (Continued: on Page 6 A)
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