t § | i 70 YEARS A NEWSPAPER Oldest Business Institution Back of the Mountain Ww ——— ‘Westmoreland Hit Subduing Sugar Notch Five 113-44 Trewern Ties Valley s Century Mark Record With 44; Mountaineers At West Wyoming Friday Westmoreland Mountaineers be- came the first team this season in contests, Wyoming Valley to go over the century mark in a single game. They completely outclassed a smaller S@gar Notch team 113-44, Tuesday night on the Dallas Junior High floor. . Besides setting a new high team total, Ronnie Trewern tied a Wyom- ing Valley record for the season with 44 markers, established the previous night by Len Hoover of St. John's, Pittston. Surge Starts After jumping into a 15-2 lead, Westmoreland saw its lead dwindle as Duffy hit three straight goals'and H. Dudick one to narrow the margin to 18-10 at the two-minute mark. Following the rally by the visitors, Westmoreland rung up five succes- sive ‘goals to hold a 28-11 margin at the quarter. : All five starters contributed to the point production with Trewern high on ten and Evans low with three. Evans, Trewern Hit Westmoreland continued its torrid seeing in the second period as Wes Evans and Ron Trewern both found the range for ten markers." With this the Mounts built up a 52-26 half-time margin. Hank Dudick contributed nine lies to the Sugar Notch attack. estmoreland finished the half with 24 field goals in 47 attempts. Trewern with 20 counters and Evans 13 paced the first half scoring for the Mountaineers. Sugar Notch Cold After intermission Westmoreland ran up twenty-two' straight points before Duffy broke the ice with two free throws. Wes Evans finding the range on six of eight attempts for twelve points kept the attack rolling. Trew- ern chipped in with eight, Gauntlett six, Dietz four and Inman three. Sugar Notch, stone cold from the floor showed three goals on twenty- one attempts, all in the final minute. Westmoreland showed fifteen for ; twenty-three. # Trewern Tries For Record Shuffling the reserves in and out with varsity members Westmoreland hit the century mark as Trewern “scored on a lay-up to give the Mounts 101 points with three minutes remairing. Lo With this Brobst inserted four new Wen, ‘leaving Trewern, the only regular, in action with the record sight. Trewern collected eight 0 tallies to tie the record. tatistics For the second consecutive game Westmoreland shot a terriffic 57%, hitting 52 field goals on 90 attempts. Trewern hit 19 for 30 and six of seven fouls for his total of 44. Evans showed 13 for 22 and Gauntlet 7 of ALi | ‘Sugar Notch, shooting 59 times, hit on 18 for a 31% average. Hank Dudick posted the best in- dividual effort with 8 for 16. Comments Following the pattern of recent Trewern, Gauntlett and Evans did the work around the boards, while Dietz and Inman turned in another fine game with their passing and defensive work. ' Dietz stole ‘the ball at least nine times from opposing players and turned in his best scoring effort of A: scason with 10 tallies. Hank Dudick, Duffy and Gargulis | stood out for Sugar Notch. At West Wyoming he Moutaineers may be in for a | Complete Course PVT. PETER FRITSKY, JR. PVT. ROBERT D. ROGERS Two local boys have completed an eight weeks lineman’s training course at Fort Gordon, Kentucky. The Southeastern Signal School trains men to install and maintain aerial communication wires and cables. Si » Both Pvt. Peter Fritsky and Pvt. Robert D. Rogers took their basic training at Fort Dix, N. J. after enlisting in September. Peter is son of Peter Fritsky of Demunds. Robert is son of Mr. and’ Mrs. Eldon H. Rogers, Fernbrook. Both boys graduated from West- ‘mor eland in June. A phone call to Mrs. Rogers turned up interesting sildelights Robert is a twin, one of two sets of twins born to Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. Robert's twin, Richard, who ‘also joined up in September, is at Fort Bragg, N. C., studying missiles. An older boy, Thomas, 26, a for- mer Navy Reserve man, now with RCA, is stationed as a civilian em- ployee in Greenland, working on the early warning system. James, 22, is stationed in Munich, in March. The boys who recently completed | the linemen’s course at Fort-Gordon, are now en route to Germany, wheré i the transport will deliver young | soldiers picked up at several stops | in the Caribbéan, along with soldiers from Fort Gordon and other army Germany, and expects to be home | ugh time tomorrow night’ when | Posts on the east coast. they travel to West Wyoming to| The other set of twins in the meet the Cowboys of coach John Ludd. The cowboys extended the Mounts | all the way in their first meeting before losing 54-49, as the Mounts rallied in the final three minutes. ~ West Wyoming at one time during the game held a thirteen point lead. Westmoreland winds up its North | league campaign Tuesday against Fairview at Fairview. West- moreland won the first meeting be-.| night D IT AS 3 POST | MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION Borough PTA Gives Record Players To School Terms Of Fight Dallas Directors End This Year Two To Be Elected; One From Franklin And One At Large There will be a considerable change in the complexion of the nineteen - member Dallas School Board after the general election this fall. That will be the time when the number of men serving on the Board will be reduced to thirteen in com- pliance with the regulations govern- ing Union School Districts. The following year the Board will be further reduced to seven members. The terms of eight directors will expire this year and only two of : | them can be reelected. - One will be the man who will be the eventual, single Township. He will be elected by the people of Franklin Township alone. The other will be a representative one of the four municipalities in the Union District. He will be elected by the people of the four districts. Directors whose terms expire this year are, Dallas Borough: Lewis W. LeGrand and Walter Mohr; Dallas Township: Francis Ambrose and Philip Cheney; Franklin Township: Don W. Heslop and Henry Hess; Kingston Township: William Clewell and James Hutchison. Some one or any of these direc- tors could be reelected as a director at large if they decide to run, but only Hess, Heslop or some other citizen of Franklin Township could be elected as the representative of that Township. Present directors who will remain on the Board during 1962 will be Dallas Borough: Dr. Robert M. Body- comb, L. L. Richardson and Earl Phillips; Dallas Township; William Wright, Alton Whittaker and Jack Stanley; Franklin /Township: James Mitchell and Harry Sickler and the member to be elected or re-elected this fall; Kingston Township: Wil- liam Mannear, William Davis and Walter Phillips. Next year the terms of all of these directors will expire with the ex- ception of those of Earl Phillips, Jack Stanley, Walter Phillips and the director from Franklin Township to be elected this fall. | *The Board+in 1963 will" then be | composed of seven men, one repre- sentative from each of the districts large who will have been elected in Bob Einehimet Named To Board Robert C. Rinehimer, Dallas, has been appointed to the Wilkes-Barre Associate “Board of Northeastern Pennsylvania National Bank - and “Trust Company. A partner, in the firm of J. S. Rinebimer and Son, Mr. Rinehimer is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary and received his degree in Commerce | and «= Finance = from Pomiverle State University. In 1941-42 he served as president of Wilkes-Barre Junior Chamber of Commerce. He also served several terms as treasurer of Wyoming Val- ley Chapter, Red Cross and was gen- | eral chairman of the 1951 Fund raising Campaign. More recently he acted as chairman of the Public Ser- | Rogers family, consists of two five | | year old girls, Diane and Donna, afterthought to a family of four boys | and four girls. ‘Alert For Cruise Ship One of the home town boys was | lon the prowl in an attempt to spot the cruise ship Santa Maria. | vice Division of the 1961 United | | Fund Campaign and is co- Chairman | of the Industrial and Business Divi- | | sion of the current Industrial Fund | Campaign. Mr. Rinehimer is a member of Wilkes-Barre Rotary Club of which | he was president in 1954-55. He also | holds memberships in the West- moreland Club; Elks Club; Franklin Club; Kingston Lodge 395 F and AM; | Knights Templar; Shekinah Royal tween thesa two 66-58. | Navy Lt. David Parsons, son of | Arch Chapter, Irem Temple and the 1 | Mr. and Mrs. John Parsons of Society of Chartered Property and Sugar Notch gf pts. Kunkle, was detached temporarily Casualty Underwriters. Duly oe Gon cel Hi si Ey | from duty with his flight squadron | He is married to the former Gargulis® 0... : 3 1 17 |at Rota, Spain, to fly to the Cape! Dorothy Tonkin. They and their Riel i a a] 1 0 2 [Verde Islands, just off the bulge of | son, Robert C. Rinehimer, Jr, reside ?Dudick ... 1. 1 3 5 |Africa. For three days)while the on East 42nd Street. Falcheck: Lo lic 0 0 0 pirated cruise ship dodged pursuers | His parents reside at Bir oo Lane, Stonionis: 1 0 0 0 |and threatened to head for Africa, | Dallas. Dombroski Qi 0. 0 Lt. Parsons was on the watch. Ta X jek’ nls | 8 2 18 |the Santa Maria finally fled to Brazi = ¥ Pudi eg | navy. fliers rejoined their units in Improvement Association 18 8 44 |Spain. Sweet Valley Improvement Asso- h ETT ciation held its = annual meeting Westmoreland g i pts. Stout Is Improved Monday night at_the Fire Hall. Gauntlett 7.115 > ; Nas PE A Supulski 100.2 Gerald E. Stout, a surgical patient Again At County Prison Inman. 4 1 9 at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where Tretts 4. Miers, 0 0 0 he was admitted a week ago Tues- Kenneth Schweiss, 17, held for Carey SN lg Beata Lin0 0 0 day, is showing improvement and murder of his father, State Trooper Brewerm |. (lx. 19 6 44 may now have visitors for short | Kurt Schweiss the Sunday before Bvans 0... 13 17.27 | periods. , Thanksgiving, has been returned to Mosier m0: 07 O | A member of the Wilkes-Barre Luzerne County Prison from Dan- Dietz 5 0 10 [Record news department, Mr. Stout | ville. State Hospital, where he was Oney 2) sedi 3 0 6 |lives with his wife and son at 29 ! under observation and psychiatric Sarymol. nis LoL Go | Holcomb Road, Shavertown. study. = oi » . . 2 911 Rotary Princess? | Home Again After Fire URGES ATTENDANCE AT GAMES Judy Gross, Annabelle Ambrose, | The James Besecker, Jr., family © Dr. Robert Mellman, superintend- | and Lynn Jordan are Back Mountain | j is back in its own house again in| ent of Dallas Schools, "asks for good | | girls, attendance of teachers at the school | | Club members, who are in the run-|to the structure which was badly | | man’s Barn, a familiar landmark on | as an aid to ning for Rotary Princess at the King- | damaged by fire a few days before | the Hillside-Huntsville Road, after | another part of the structure was basketball games, pupil-faculty good relationship. daughters of Dallas Rotary | ston House Tussiny evening, East Dallas, after extensive repairs | | Ch istmas, » | representative of Franklin at large and may come from any | comprising the union; one member | at large who will have been elected | this fall and two other directors at | \ \ Dallas Borough PTA recently don- | ated three record players for use| {in the school. ‘They are shown ranged on ‘the platform of the auditorium, in front of a T- Vr given by the Boston Store. Reading from left to right are: Mrs. Stephen Hartman, Mrs. Harry | \ Lefko, of the PTA Board; Miss Louise | Ohlman, music instructor; Antonette | | Mason, second grade teacher; Mrs. | Louise Colwell, principal; and Han- ford Eckman, PTA president. | Quick work of Harry S. Smith and at Plattsburg from complete des- (7:30. Mr. and Mrs. Everetts and their | three children were away when the | fire was discovered but returned be- | Believed to have started around a Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Companies saved the Charles C. Everetts home | truction Sunday night shortly’ after: fore firemen had it extinguished. | Sunday Fire Damages Plattsburg Home defective . chimney, the fire did approximately $2,000 damage to the roof, upstairs ceiling, rafters and | chimney, fiffemen “used | 1,000 gations of bvator from their booster tanks to extinguish the flames. Loss is par- tially covered ‘by insurance. The Everetts family are staying with relatives until the damage can Ibe repaired. Cliff Garris Rolls A Perfect Game Cliff Garris, Jackson Street, Dal- las, a driver salesman for Dallas Dairy, rolled a perfect game yester- day afternoon while bowling in open play at Crown Imperial Lanes. . The big game is the first 300 to be recorded at the local bowling estab- lishment since it opened four years ago. Cliff is a regular. bowler at Crown and is a member of two years. Tony Bonomo, proprietor of Crown Imperial since it changed hands | January 1st, has been experimenting | with the new Tuf-Tex pins manu- | | factured by Bean Brothers. The { new pins have been on the lanes just | one week and Tony is pleased the | oor fect score was made while using | them. leagues there and one in Tunkhan- | nock.. He has been bowling four | Mother And Son Fined A Dallas. Township mother and son were each fined $100 by Judge | J, Harold Flannery following convic- tion on charges of selling intoxi- cants to minors. They were Mrs. Mary Mason and Route” 309 at Kunkle. They were given thirty days in which to pay costs of prosecution, fines and other costs. Mocking | Bird Is Here John Hewitt has been feeding a mocking bird all winter at the {feeder near his home on the Hunts- ville-Idetown Road. Like the car- dinals, these birds are apparently moving north. They have been re- (ported in Philadelphia and Lewis- burg. & | Mr. Hewitt hds also noted a | | number of meadow larks wintering | | over. George Mason of Mason's Villa, ! | Kunkle Student ‘Hurt At School Harry Haas Falls From Auditorium Stage A Dallas Junior High' School stu- ent, Harry Haas of Kunkle is a | patient at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital where he was taken in Kingsten Township Ambulance | Tuesday following an accident in the school auditorium. | | Haas, a seventh grade student, | slipped from the stage landing on his back and head on the auditorium floor. He was unconscious for a time lend school authorities called his mother, Mrs. Esther Haas, who had her family physician, Dr. Malcolm Borthwick, attend the injured boy. | X-rays at the hospital revealed "| that no bones were broken, but the youth is suffering from a severe concussion. Physicians advised that he remain at the hospital for a day lor two for observation. Tdetovn Woman. Hurt In Crash | Mrs. Leonard Phillips, 42nd Street, is still a patient at Nesbitt Hospital where she was taken early Satur- day evening for treatment of back, rib, head and internal injuries affer her Ford sedan was rammed by an- other vehicle at the intersection of Memorial Highway and 42nd street in Lehman Township. liam Russell, into the rear of Mrs. Phillip’s mach- | ine in the heavy fog as she was about to make a left hand turn. Both cars were badly damaged and both drivers were taken by am- bulance to Nesbitt Hospital for treat- ment. Mrs. Phillips, 26, Jom Gosart’s Store in Dallas where she had been marketing. With her was her dog. After the accident, neighbors took the dog to her home, some distance | away and it was then that her hus- | band learned of her injuries. Both young people are popular in| the community where they have | lived for sometime.’ Mr. Phillips is| | embioyed by Frank B. Sgarlat Co. A Cadillac sedan driven by Wil- | 34, Idetown, crashed was returning | Familiar Landmark Takes On A New Look 5% This is what is left of Ray Prutz-! | aging structure. Fortunately the herd of cows in |siderable. heavy snows crushed the alr eady | unmolested although damage to the —Photo by Kozemchtik Celestine - TWO ORchard EASY TO REMEMBER Telephone Numbers 4-5656 OR 4-7676 VOL. 73, NO. 8, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1961 Touh Mangled In Door Bs Car Tows Victim | Stuart Stahl, Westmoreland jun- ior, was painfully injured Wednesday ! afternoon after school hours, when he caught his thumb in the door of ‘a car driven by a schoolmate, | Howard Steele. | Steele, not realizing that Stuart’s thumb was caught, started the car, i and the injured boy was towed along for several yards, trying to attract attention of the driver. When re- leased, the mangled thumb spurted blood. Art Whiting, proprietor of a gar- age at Center Street and Memorial Highway, Shavertown, took the boy first to Dr. Bucan’s office, then Dr. Borthwicks, then Dr. Mascali, seek- ing help. Dr. Mascali was in his office. He dressed the wound, and ordered X-Rays taken. Mrs. John Stahl, Stewart’s mother, took him to Nesbitt Hospital Thursday morning. X-Rays showed fracture of the left thumb, with extensive damage to soft parts. Local Hot Rods Lose Licenses Adams And Wesley Hit 100 Miles Per Hour " Charged with driving 100 miles an hour on Route 115, two Sweet | Valley drag racers were convicted | when given a hearing before Judge | Bernard Brominski. The Court suspended sentence and | fine on condition that Frederick K. | Adams, Sweet Valley RD1 and Wor- den E. Wesley, Sweet Valley, sur- render their operator's licenses for | ten days. September 4 by Trooper Harold D. Slater. Adams, driving a 1960 model car, according to the prosecution, turned left onto Route 115 from Route 415, when Wesley pulled alongside with a 1958 model car. The two cars started to race and were clocked at 95 miles an hour for a distance of two miles. The . trooper blew his siren when Adams pulled ahead of Wesley and the speed was 100 miles an hour. The incident occurred in Dallas and Lehman Townships. Catches Arm In Roller At Natona Mills ‘John Judge, 204 Lehigh Street, Shavertown, caught his arm in a roller in the dye house at Natona Mills Friday at noon. Power was shut off instantly, but his arm was lacerated. He was able to sit up route to Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted for suturing and observation. Staffing this ambulance were James Wertman and Don 'Bulford. Dog-Catcher Due Burgess Thomas Morgan says the dog-catchers will be here next week. Many dogs are still wearing last year’s license plates. To avoid a stiff fine, get a 1961 license right away, for any dog over six months old. ‘And, Morgan warns, a license | does not give a dog free running of the streets. Dogs must be under control, six months. Costs are to be paid in | The youths were arrested last | iin Dallas Community Ambulance en- Industrial Fund Now Approaching One Million Mark Francis Ambrose Is Chairman For Back Mountain Bea = Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund Campaign, now inching toward the one-million dollar mark of a $1,500,000 goal, can be tabbed as a “first” in the annals of local fund- raising for industrial development. Francis Ambrose who is in charge of the Industrial Fund's activities in the Back Mountain area, said yes- terday that he is anticipating a generous response from businessmen and industrial groups. Assisting him as chairmen are Dal- las Borough, Lemuel Troster, Dallas insurance agent; Lehman Township, Sheldon Cave, Idetown merchant; Kingston Township, Thomas Hobbs, manager of McCrory’s; Dallas Town- ship, Sterl Chere, manager Dallas Qutdoor Theatre. The drive seeks to raise more than twice the amount ever sought for such 3-year programs. Its appeal Lid support is aimed for the first ime beyond the approximately 1400 | — firms, institutions and civic-minded leaders who have don- | ated all the money ever raised in the past. If it reaches the crest of its | sought for goal it will be because | employees, now being asked for the | first time to aid the more jobs pro- { gram have chipped in a part of . | their earnings to ‘insure the growth | of employment opportunities for i their friends and neighbors. ® Response in this new form of giv- ing on the part of employee groups | has been most impressive. down of pledges from so-called eariy- bird firms where solicitation is now first massive effort to counter unem- | ployment by pooling its own re- sources. The average pledges of these em- ployees, spread over the 3-year period of giving is $70. Most of them are pledging through payroll deduction. Sord oni Enterprises— $5,254, 47 employees; - Hanover National Bank—$658, 16 erhployees; Penna. Power & Light Co.—$6,142, 99 employees; Metropolitan Life In- ployees; Bowden-Northrup Lumber Co.—3$592 from 12 employees; Lewith & Freeman—$370 from 6 employees; International Color Printing—$1,255 from 23 office em- ployees; Stereotypers Local 139— $1,950 from 25 members; Westing- house Electric Co.—$3,587 from 53 employees; Lacy, Atherton & Davis —3$2,437 from 26 employees. Mean- while, unions, too, have made gener- ous gifts to the fund from their treasuries. Thus far Local 12-571, 0Qil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union which is represented by mem- bers at Eberhard Faber, one of the new industries at Crestwood Indus- trial Park, and Labor ers Local No. 215 have made their contributions following a vote of approval by members. Notice : Civil Defense meeting has been postponed from February 28 to I Mar ch 7 College Misericordia Schedules Its Second Reading Conference | College Misericordia’s Second an- | nual Reading Conference has been | | scheduled for March 24-25, Sister M. | | Celestine, R. S. M., president of the | College, has announced. This year’s lecture plan will center on the theme | ‘Perspectives In Reading,” Sister | explained, that the dis- cussions of the authorities conduct- ing the conference may present the newest approaches in reading edu- cation. ; Conference speakers will be: Mary C. Austin, School of Education, Har- | vard University; Marguerite de An- gelo, winner of the John Newberry Medal for distinguished contribution “to American literature for Children: Rosemary G. Wilson, Special Assis- | tant, Secondary Reading, School Dis- trict of Philadelphia; Dr. Lyman C. | Hunt, director of Reading Clinic, | Pennsylvania State University; Lor- etta M. Antl, consultant, Department of Science Research Associates, Inc. Dr. Mary C. Austin, who is current president of the International Read- | ing Association, will discuss current | emphases in the teaching of reading on Friday, March 24, at the General Session, 7:15 p.m., in Walsh Memor- ial Auditorium. At the General Ses- sion on Saturday, March 25, 9:00 a.m., Dr. Austin will consider reading and thinking. The post-luncheon speaker Saturday at 1:30 p.m. will be Mar- | guerite de Ang=li. Her topic will be ! the writing and illustrating of chil- dren's books. Mrs. de Angeli is the author-illustrator of eighteen best- selling children’s hooks. For her work ‘The Door In the Wall,” she , was chosen winner of the Newberry | section devoted to storage was con- | Award for the most distinguished children’s book of the year 1950. Her latest publication is the beautifully illustrated “The Old Testament” of on | 1960. At a Special Session for Adminis tration and Supervision on Friday | afternoon, 2:30 p. m., Rosemary G. | Wilson will explain the role of the administrator in the reading pro- | gram. This meeting is open to those lof both secondary and elementary |levels. On Saturday, Mrs. Wilson | will talk to the secondary school | teachers ‘on Development Reading Programs. She will stress the idea | het “All teachers teach reading.” Mrs, Wilson was one of the three | reading consultants who prepared | the Administrator's Guide to Read- ling for the Department of Public In- | struction in 1958. Since then, she has served as a member of the State { Committee of College Teachers of Reading and is recognized as an out- | standing consultant on the develop- | mental reading programs in second- | ary school reading programs. | Speakers at the sectional meetings | on both Friday and Saturday will be Dr. Lyman C. Hunt who heads the | University and Loretta M. Antl, | consultant, Wesleyan University. Dr. {Hunt will discuss “Overcoming the | Difficuties in Reading,” | Ant] will consider ‘News Reading in {the Curriculum.” : Dr. Hunt recently | completed a series of lessons on “Teaching of Reading Via Televi- sion.” In her work as consultant, | Miss Antl is active in the nationwide | movement for improved instruction {in reading, citizenship, ‘and current | affairs. | At the General Session on Friday, |4 p. m., Mr. Thomas M. Ryall, rep- | resentative of the Science Research | Associates, Inc., will explain the use of the various materials of the SRA Reading Laboratory. A run- complete bids well for this area's surance Co.—$2,984 from 41 em- Reading Clinic of Pennsylvania State and Miss