CS “ a [0 one half million Junior high Was supervising principal. © nN . \ ® Robert Girvan Has Front Row Seat | | | 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. 73, NO. 4, THURSDAY, African Teacher To Appear With Fritz Hendricks Township PTA Will Hear Both Speakers Tonight At School Fritz Hendricks, speaker for Dallas Township PTA tonight, will have with him Matthias Ogutu, headmaster of a school in Kenya, Africa, in the United States in the interests of a teachers development program sponsored by the govern- ment, The business meeting will start at 8, to permit the program to start at 8:30. Mr. Hendricks, former supervis- ing principal of Lehman schools, went to Millersville as supervisor after leaving Lehman, and has for the past eight years headed a four- ~ district school jointure at Shilling- ton, the product of his organization. Shillington jointure, recognized as one of the finest in the State, with curriculum extending from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, is completing a five million dollar construction program. A one school is now under construction. Mr. Hendricks will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Nuss. Mr. Nuss served on the Lehman school | board at the time Mr. Hendricks Credit Union Has Good Year Natona Group Has Its ‘Annual Meeting Natona Mills Employees Federal Credit Union held its tenth annual meeting Saturday night at 0O’Con- | nell’s Kingston House with more than 100 members and wives pres- ent. JANUARY 26, 1961 Harry H. Ritts, Jr., Receives Jewel Harry H. Ritts, Jr., immediate past Master of George M. Dallas | Lodge 531, Free and Accepted | Masons, receives the Past Master's | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION King Winter Holds Huntsville In His Grip (jewel from Hayward Lancio at the St. John’s Day dinner held Thursday night at Irem Temple Country Club. Photo by Kozemchak Blizzard Does Not Discourage Crowd From Attending Dinner St. John's Day dinner of (George | | M. Dallas Lodge 531, F&AM, Thurs- | | day night at Irem Country Club, at- | | tracted a good crowd in spite of | heavy snow. \ Rev. Robert D. Yost was the | John Fisher, president, presided. The Credit Committee report was | given by Bernard Kriso and the] Supervision Committee report was by Anna Manzoni. the treasurer’s report. The three openings existing on | the Board of; Directors were filled by the elechann of “Nicholas [Fons asak, Mrs. Elizabeth Reese and Mrs. | Betty Jones. At the reorganization meeting of ‘the Board of Tomasak was elected president; Elizabeth Reese, vice president; Wil- | liam Chik, secretary; Joe Harris, | treasurer, and Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, assistant treasurer. Named to the Credit Committee | were: Arthur Gosart, Victor Me- | Carty and Bernard Kriso. Mrs. Raghnild Johnson was named chairman of the Supervisory Com- mittee with Mrs. Della Bellas and Elizabeth Ellman as the other Super- visory committee member. A buffet luncheon was served. Rear End Collision At Minus 10 Degrees ‘Chief Russell Honeywell was called to a rear-end collision Wednesday | morning at 3. intersection of route 309 with 115, were able to move off under their surance. A small boy in the back seat of the New Jersey car driven by George Bee, piped, “Boy, it’s cold!” It was ten below zero. John Garbish = from Scranton, stopped his car at the stop sign, | and the New Jersey car, on sleek ice, polished by gusts of snow, was unable to stop. Giant Cake For Rotarians A six-foot cake bearing the in- | scription “Sorry, This Won't Happen | Again” greeted members of Dallas | Rotary Club when they were guests of Kingston Rotary Club’ at the Kingston House Thursday night as | winners of a 100-percent attendance contest between the two clubs. Joe Harris gave | Directors, Nicholas Both cars, locked at | own steam. Both drivers had in- | principal speaker, taking as his sub- | ject his summer trip to Europe; and | stressing friendliness of the con- tinent toward Americans. Ted Wilson introduced Myron | | Baker, toastmaster. A past master’s | jewel was presented to Harry H. | Ritts, Jr., shipful Master Harry D. Swepston, | Jr., introduced officers for 1961. Present were Frank E. Wagner, ! Sr., Frank Wagner? Jr.; Henry E. | Schimmel, Nelson J. Richards, Ww. | H. Krimmel, David C. Jones, Paul! M. Williams, Garwin Tough, G. D. | | Tough, Robert Speare, James Ko- | | zemchak, Raymond J. Daring, Lloyd | | Williams, Joe Sekera, Harry Craw-| | ford, + Allen @ Williams, = Thomas | | Kreidler, Glenn M. Howell, Thomas | G. Williams, Daniel E. Meeker, John N. (Graves, R. Stewart Ferguson, | , John H. D. Ferguson. | Robert Bennett, Lewis R. Hack- | ling, Russell Newell, Alan R. Rood, | Alger P. Antanitas, Leonard R. | Heverly, Roy A. Dendler, Thomas D. Swainbank, Harold Bennett, John | | P. Havir, Alfred M. Feist, R. bo | Wagner, Robert J. Costello, Harold | Zismeninen, Duncan Whitehead, O. | A. Allen, Mervin L. Knaub, William | [ E. Strange, Stuart L. Thomas, Har- old Heidel, David J. Thomas, William Lewis, William James, | Wesley Lamoreux, Michael Slimal, Roland Gensel, Andrew Kozemchak, | Carl E. Johnson, Milton J. Evans, | John 'M.: Porter, John C. Kuder, | Clarence W. Payne, Gordon Yetter, William L. Wagner, Sherwood Wil- | | son, Jack Strickland, John N:| Landis, Granville H. Sowden, L. L. Richardson, Stephen Johnson, W. M. Porter, Robert H. Voelker, Wil- liam Pugh, Charles D. Lemmond, Jr. Abram Nesbitt, H. Elwood Meyers, William Meyers, Clarence D. Hunter, Eugene W. Traver, Edgar Lashford, | Thomas R. Morgan, Jr., by Hayward Lancio. Wor- | Jack E. Jones, J. Chester Hart- | man, Fred W. Malkemes, Obed | Hontz, Clyde W. Birth, Richard J. | | Holdredge, Willard Garey, Willard | Hoover, John Heider, Harry L. Wood, Jr., Robert Stephenson, Ed- ward S. Powell, Frank Gelsleichter, | Jr., William Berti, Dick Oliver, | Selling Programs At Inauguration A Dallas young man, Robert Gir- | van and architectural student at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., was right in the middle of things at the inauguration of Presi- | dent John Kennedy. Along with fifty other where the swearing in ceremonies ~ took place. Did he mind the cold and stormy | weather ? “Not at all”, he told his mother Mrs. Francis Girvan, 45, | "North Lakeside Drive, phone conversation, ‘I'm used to northern winters.” Earlier this winter, Robert was among a group of R.O.T.C. stu- dents at Catholic University who | made a flight to Miami, Florida, to see the Army’s Jet Bombers. The | flight was eventful because they | ‘were supposed to be back in school on Friday and were unable because ' students | from Catholic University he sold | programs in. front of the stands in a tele-| | Mrs. John Girvan Lake Street, | Monday at 6 AM. Even then they | were unable to land in Washington but had to put down in. Baltimore. Bob will arrive in Dallas for his | | mid - winter night and Wednesday. His brother, a senior School at Bucknell University, spending his mid-winter vatation | with his parents this week. Bob Girvan bears a grand name. His . uncle the late Robert Girvan, son of Mr. and return to classes next | | was a [lighting Irishmen who | volunteered fer a dangerous assignment in Italy and was killed during World War II. He was a graduate of Dallas Town- ship High School and known to everybody in the Dallas of | those days. — Editor | | brand, Irish, | Lewis, of storm conditions to return until | vacation on Friday | 3 Theodore, | in the (Civil Engineering | is | Charles Dressell, Glenn Stroh, Sr., Milne, Thomas Neyhard, David Thomas, Jr., Jack W. Stanley, Rob- ert Nygren, Harry H. Ritter, Sr., William Eicke, Sheldon Patton, Robert Lewis Chaplain, Clinton D. | Smith, Sr., Carl H. Remley, Charles | Sakoski, Jr., Charles F. Quinn, Earl Borchet, Robert A. Rave, Edward Hartman, Melvin Morris, Glenn Stroh, Jr., Fred Nicely, Bob | | William Atherton, D. Wayne Black- mer, Harold Bryson, Walter C. Hilde- Michael Sabonis, John Par- | Willard R. Piatt, G. esley | Charles Van Buskirk, Ray- imond C. Hyatt, Kenneth Bayliss, | Edwin Roth, Sheldon Fahringer, George Parry, Dick Houlette, Allan | Nichols, James Alexander, Graham, Robert Parry, Niles M. White, Willard Rhone, Russell Cease, | Richard Owens, ‘Dominic ‘Merolla, | Dr. R. M. Bodycomb, Richard Body- | scooping it up in her arms. comb. Robert Yetter, John Bradochek, | | George M. Jacobs, Alfred Sassaman, | Sheldon H. Morgan, Joseph Ash- | bridge, = Harold Britt, Sherman Kunkle; Loren Cragle, Jr., Glenn. | Case, George H. Bronson, Vernon Cease, ‘Laing Coolbaugh, Marc Ruch, R. R. Phipps, Tex Wilson, Harry | Hughey, D. E. Daron, Merl Bigelow, John Penman, A. Parsons, Bestwick, Samuel M. Harrison. Discover Timber Theft Benjamin Blaze, visiting his pro- perty on Bunker Hill last week, discovered that several large and valuable trees had been cut from his timber land. He reported the theft to Kingston Township police chief Herbert Updyke. Mr. Blaze, Luzerne, whose house on Bunker Hill was burned to the ground three years ago, has property also on Green Road, Kingston Township. Not So Cold As Expected It was not so cold as expected Tuesday night. Just 10 below zero, same as several nights in a row. Robert | Wade, Robert Thompson, Theodore |. ! Poad, Frederick Anderson, John R. | | morning, when she found it’stuck | thirty-seven times: New Housing May Be Bright Spot Of 1961 Herbert Hill Made President Of Rural Building And Loan Herbert Hill, Shavertown florist, was elected president at the twenty- eighth annual meeting of Rural Building Association held in the Di- rector’s room of Dallas Branch Min- ‘ers National Bank. Mr. Hill's late father, Herbert Hill, was for many years a director of the association. Other officers elected were Dr. F. Budd Schooley, vice president; Wil- bur Nichols, secretary; W. B. Jeter, ‘treasurer; and Atty. Burt B. Lewis, solicitor. Directors reelected were: Edward W. Hall, Howard Isaacs, Thomas P. Garrity, L. L. Richardson, William H. Baker, Jr., F. Allan Nichols, Thomas G. Reese, G. Wilbur Nichols, Granville H. Sowden, W. B. Jeter, Dr. F. Budd Schooley, Frederick J. Eck, Burt B. Lewis, Sheldon T. Evans and Herbert H. Hill. Rural Building & Loan Associa- tion, founded in 1933, has assets of $166,553. Throughout the years it has confined its activities to the rapidly growing Back Mountain area and its board of directors and officers are composed. entirely of Back Mountain business .and pro- fessional men. In addressing the shareholders, Mr. Hill said: “The high savings level, coupled with ever increasing repayments on outstanding mort- gages assures an. ample supply of home mortgage money for home buyers in 1961.” : “Looking ahead,” Mr. Hill sug- gested ‘that the recent slowdown in business probably contains in it- | self the seeds of its own recovery.” He listed as plus factors, a con- tinued high level of sales, produc- tion, employment and personal in- come. He believes that housing may be one of the’ bright spots on the economy for 1961. The vapour rising from the warm- er water at outlet of Huntsville Res- 'ervoir has frozen to form this fan- think that this was a frozen water- tistic fairyland along the face of fall. the dam. One might at first glance | vapour did the trick. TEN It is not. King Winter and —Photo by Kozemchak Dallas Firemen Elect Officers Peterson Retains Presidency Elected at the annual meeting of Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company president; Stephen . Hartman, vice president; William Baker, Jr., sec- retary; Ray Titus, treasurer; Leslie Tinsley and William Berti, trustees. Al Shaffer was elected fire chief, Rescues Loon From Surrounding Drifts Leave it to Mary Frantz. Unless | | it starves to death for lack of fresh [ fish, she has a loon. Since Sur: ay Donald Bulford assistant. Officers appointed were: assistant | chiefs: Dan Richards, Howard Johns, | William Berti; engineer, James | Wertman; assistant engineer, Thom- as Richardson; captain, Ray Titus. Chief Shaffer reported that the company during 1960 w.s called out twenty grass LS in a snowbank' in a field, she has | fires, eight dwellings, four automo- been cajoling it with a bass from! biles, one garage, one restaurant, | the deep freeze, and even with. a ["oge trailer, and one tree. | can of crab meat, but to date it has | | Robert | refused nourishment. Mary immured it in the duck pen | after she had captured it by throw- | {ing a car blanket over its head and It’s | { about the size of a large goose. In | fact, viewing it through binoculars | as it floundered in the snow, unable | to take off because of‘lack of open water, Mary thought it was a Cana- dian goose, and waded to the rescue in high boots. Thick Layer Of Snow Prevents Deep Freeze Les Warhola, manager of Dallas- | Shavertown Water Company, says | that the thick snow is a blessing, | preventing the ground from freezing | too deeply. has never gone off since the tenth | of December, protecting under- | ground water mains during sub-zero | temperatures. Only two frozen pipes during the | In the mid-thirties, | entire period. during six weeks of sub-zero weather, thawing apparatus used night and day, and' more equipment had to be procured | from Philadelphia. In excavating for water connec- tions for the new Laundricenter at | Back Mountain Shopping Center, two feet of frost was encountered | few | under bare ground, only a inches under ground protected by | snow. { Snow came early, and | ‘was | During the past year, 132 men | responded to. calls. The company | was assisted by neighboring com- | panies of five occasions, and assisted | others twice. Estimated fire loss | during 1960 was $24,800. Stuart Marks Spends Frantic Hour At Avoca | | Stuart Marks spent a hair-raising half hour at Avoca airport Tuesday afternoon, until a telephone call from Pittsburgh informed him that his | wife had not been:on the plane that { made a belly-landing, but on the | one which had landed safely two minutes earlier: Louise got off instead of coming on to Avoca, where she was due to land at 2:30, and spent the night { with relatives. All planes were be- ling buffeted by extreme turbulence {as they wove themselves into the | landing pattern. On Wednesday, | planes came through without trou- ble, and Mrs. Marks landed on sched- | ule, after spending two weeks in In- | dianapolis. Schweiss To Receive ‘Psychiatric Examination Kenneth Schweiss, 17, indicted by the Grand Jury last week for | murder of his father, State Trooper Kurt Schweiss, at Dallas November 20, | amination at Danville. i 3% | | | | | | | that remains of two | properties that were destroyed with- This is ‘all in a matter of hours Saturday at | Harveys Lake. : | To the left is the Charles Caster- ! line home at Sunset where fire was | discovered in a bedroom shortly | before noon by Mrs. Rebecca Caster- | line while her husband was at work "| at Natona Mills. | Mus. Casterline grabbed her four | children, Mary Lou 12; George, 8; Jo | home was discovered by an airplane | Saturday Fires Destroy Two Lake Properties Ann, 4; and Karen, 2, and fled while flames roared through the building. Firemen arrived immediately but they could save none of the contents. The Casterlines carried no insurance. To the right is all that is left of the three-story property near Har- veys Lake Picnic Grounds owned by George Kanarr of Trucksville and Charles B. Kanarr of Kingston. Fire in the recently renovated pilot, Daniel Yatsko, who landed his ski-equipped plane upon the lake and notified Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company. Jonathan R. Davis Fire Company, Idetown; Lehman Fire Company, Daniel C. Roberts Fire Company, the same men and equipment who ‘had fought the Casterline Fire, plus men and equipment from Kunkle fought the Kanarr fire. The property had af various times house numbering adopted by Kings- ton Township, Supervisors of Dal- | Dallas Township Assigns Numbers To Homes In Overbrook Avenue Area Following ' the same system of |signed to North and South Yeager [Avenue and to Ferguson Avenue in Druid Hills, were these officers: Henry Peterson, las Township have engaged En- | Richard Griffith, superintendent gineer John Jeter to assign house |of mails at Shavertown, asks all numbers to homes in Dallas Town- | patrons to be sure to notify their ship served with mail from Shaver- | correspondents of their house num- town Postoffice. | bers. Formerly these homes, mainly in | Engineer Jeter has had consider- Fernbrook and Overbrook Avenue |able experience in assigning house section received their mail by rural | numbers for he was employed in carrier from Trucksville Postoffice. | the Engineers ' Office of Wilkes- The properties now being as- | Barre City and was oné’ of ‘those signed numbers by Engineer Jeter | who helped to number Wilkes- are on North Pioneer Avenue from | Barre streets many years ago when the vicinity of the Lacy home near | a uniform system was established Shavertown Methodist church to | there. ; : the Thomas Morgan property in Mr. Jeter says any householder Dallas Borough. | can determine how far his home is Overbrook Avenue from Fern-|from the place of the beginning of brook to Huntsville has’ now been [the numbers by simply adding a 0 renamed East Overbrook from Me- {to his house number. For example morial Highway to Fernbrook and |a householder living at number 447 West Overbrook Avenue from Me- | North Pioneer Avenue, by adding morial Highway to Huntsville Dam. | 0 to his number, learns: that his For the most part West Overbrook | home is 4,470 feet from ' Division Avenue is serviced by Dallas R.F.D. | street at Mt. Greenwood Cemetery routes. ! | (approximately Davis Street). House numbers are also being as- | Native Hawaiion Badly - Montrose Bowl Bruised By Fall On Ice Skiing is excellent at Notions Mrs. Willard Miner, admitted ' to Ski Bowl, according to Mr. and Mrs. [Neo Memorial Hospital Saturday Myron Baker who spent Saturday | | afternoon badly bruised and shaken i and Sunday there. after falling on the ice on Miners It was somewhat faster on Sun- | Bank parking lot in Dallas, returned Skiing Good At will receive a psychiatric ex- | shaded, and the altitude of Mont- rose is sufficiently high, to assure by slopes are slow. Saturday and Sunday from 10 a. m. until dark. ment of a young man, recently dis- charged by the Army after several | years service in Alaska. .| Steak roasts are a popular feat- | ure of the Bowl on certain Satur- | days when the management pro- | | vides a supply of salads, baked | ‘beans and other foods for $1.50 | with patrons providing their own steak which is broiled over a big { open fire. { Information on skiing conditions | can be obtained by calling Montrose | { Inn. been owned by Judge Barnum, H. B. Hale and Mortimer Goldsmith. The’ $20,000 insurance carried by the Kanarrs covered only a small part of the loss. An effort is being made by friends and neighbors to assist Mr. Caster- line in rebuilding his home. Dona- | tions of money ‘or materials may be | sent to “The Casterline Building Fund” in care of Charles Derr or John Kriel, Harveys Lake, day than Saturday. The slope is well | to her home in Meeker yesterday. | Mrs. Miner, a native Hawaiian, | spending her first winter in the good skiing when many other near-| jpited States after coming here in June from Hawaii, and accustomed The Bowl is being operated every | to the balmy temperatures of ‘the Island, thinks the snow is perfectly The fee is $2.50 per | beautiful, but that the underlying day with reduced rates after 3 p. m. | ice is treacherous. The Bowl is under the manage- | She lay for almost an hour on the ice, unable to get to her feet, covered with coats and blankets, { until Dallas Community Ambulance | er ew took control. X-Rays showed | system of house enumeration. 1. Bake Sale Tomorrow East Dallas Methodist women din a bake-sale tomorrow at’ Shaver- town Acme, starting at 10:30. Mrs. Irvin Barber is general chairman. CENTS PER COPY—TWELVE PAGE’ rd Presbyterians Plan To Build Church In Area No Site Has Yet Been Selected For New Edifice Back Mountain will have a Pres- of Presbyterians in the community who wish to establish a place of Wilkes-Barre. There is no Presby- Tunkhannock. For the past six months, an in- tensive survey has been made in this area, to indicate the need and the demand. Interested residents will meet to- and Mrs. William Shuster in Trucks- ville. : Back Mountain people who are willing to go ahead with the move, are asked to get in touch with any one of the following: Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. John H. Dungey, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. and Mrs. R. C. Ziegler, Trucksville. The move to establish a Presby- terian Church has the blessing of pastors of the city churches, and of the Presbytery. No site has yet been selected. A number of places suitable for an edifice have been discussed. Definite commitments of seventy-five families lead the proponents to be- lieve that adequate support will be available, (and that more families will realize the advantages of having a local church. Presbyterians have gram. Dallas Postoffice Staft Gives Book Library Receives Mailman, U. S. A. Dallas Post Office employees have placed upon the shelves of the Back of “Mailman, USA” written by chronicles the exciting the development’ and story of of Letter president. Gate of Heaven school also re- ceived a copy. A letter written by Joseph Po- lacky, Dallas Postmaster, and signed by employees John Juris, E, W. Mc- Dade, S. H. Drake, L. J. Reese, Al Bellas, ‘Dorothy B. Moore, Edmund G. Labatch; Allen Montross, Edward M. Buckley, Joseph Lavelle, Jose- phine Ostrum, and Andy Sokol, says: “Dallas Public Library: On behalf of the Dallas Post Office, we, the Carriers, ‘as told bot its this publication, ‘Mailman, USA,” for your files, that it may serve as a grateful tribute to all citizens of our community for the privilege of hav- by the community have been heart- warming and are gratefully appre- ciated. We trust this publication will be of both aid and interest to tents. “Very respectfully submitted, “Joseph Polacky, Postmaster.” Pass Ordinance ‘Tuesday night. Kingston Township Supervisors passed the ordinance system of house enumberation.: Keeps Township's Residents of Dallas Township have | reason to be proud of their Road Department as they watch its four- man road crew buck four-foot snow drifts with modern equipment, day | and night, on its twenty- -eight miles of drifted highways. Since the beginning of winter the | tributed more than 319 tons of ashes reserve supply. The work of spreading ashes has been made easier by the use of two novel cinder spreaders which were ervision of Fred .Lamoreux. These spreaders, three-horsepower Briggs & Stratton motors, are easily attached to the tail gates of the township trucks by only two bolts and really add to the efficiency of winter road main- tenance. Another big factor in Roenin township roads clear is a new 9,000- pound International BulldozZer-Pay- loader that was put into operation |only a few weeks ago at a cost of $7,000. The loader cuts greatly into the time and cost of loading cinders and snow. The Road Department also oper- ates two big trucks—one an Inter- i] \ Township Road Department has -dis- and is now cutting heavily into its | constructed this fall under the sup- powered by Small Crew With Modern Machines ; 28 Miles Open | national and the other a giant “Ford. | With this modern equipment, Su- pervisors Fred Lamoreaux and Wil- | liam Brace assisted by Clifford Shields and Robert Strohl, been able to keep all the roads | open without difficulty in even the most extreme weather. The hills, of course, pervisors, mindful that school buses and mail must go. through every day, have given them special con- sideration. { parking lot and area around Dallas Junior High School open during the | severest days. Like all crews in the Back Moun- hours and whenever conditions war- ranted’ it,” frequently starting at 2 a. m, and continuing around the clock. “We don't set a special time to start work,” Supervisor Lamo says” we let the weather determ? when to start. We've learned tha} ‘you can’t wait. In some places the drifts have been four feet high but any motorists. wy 4 byterian Church, a four-year dream worship nearer than Kingston or terian church between Kingston and morrow night at the home of Mr. Thomas Longmore, Dallas; Mr. and Mnrs. Lester Hauck, Shavertown; Mr. Carmon, Dallas; or Mr. a strong children and youth pro- Mountain Memorial Library a copy William © C. Doherty. The book following employees, wish to present all who shall dwell upon its con- At a brief adjourned meeting changing the names of a number of | streets and adopting a Erion 5 “have 2 are the Sup | hardest to keep open, but the Su- = tain area, they have worked at all with our equipment, which I think MY is about the best in the area, we've had practically no complaints from ; 3 & accomplish- 3 ments of the National Association 5 ing been able to serve them in our capacity as mail carriers and clerks. “The kindnesses extended to us They have also kept the | )