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Something Is
Dallas Schools
To Have Closed
Sessions In Fall
Lunch Program To
Be Extended To All
School Buildings
Mies Schools will have closed
sessions next year, with cafeteria
service from a central kitchen for
pupils in all six buildings. A mobile
unit will transport hot food. Pupils,
said Dr. Robert Mellman, superin-
tendent, Tuesday night will be per-
mitted to bring their own lunches
if the parents desire this, but they
will not be permitted to run home
to eat. Serving of a hot school lunch
insures a balanced meal at noon.
Prices will rise five cents a serving
over what they have been this year,
to compensate for added equipment
and staff help. Lunches for grade
school children will be 25 cents, if
purchased on a weekly basis; lunches
for Junior and Senior High School
students! 30 cents instead of the
former 25. Daily rates are five cents
higher in each instance.
According to the superintendent’s
epgrt, given Tuesday evening at
th&school board meeting, the as-
sistant high school principal will
head business matters for the total
lunch system. Menu planning, food
purchases, work schedules, man-
agement, will be in the hands of a
mpgs! A clerk-cashier will be |
responsible to the manager.
Six full-time general kitchen
workers will be necessary; one part-
time baker; one man, full time, for |
general custodial work; one man
half time for distribution of lunches;
nine women,
work in schools where lunches will
be served. |
To prepare for the mechanics of |
the new system of closed school ses- |
sions and noon lunches in all schools, |
a two-day lunch Wwork-shop program
is planned for all employees con
cerned with lunches, July 20 and |
21.
Barbara Simms Resigns
Barbara Simms has resigned
secretary of Dallas Junior High
School. Her place has been taken on
a substitute basis by Mrs. Luther
G. Wismer, Shavertown, who has
had experience as secretary to a
school supervisor and is thoroughly
conversant with the requirements.
Placed alg on the subsigtute list
2 \ these names: for custodian,
Fe, se H. Jones, Glen Lyon, who
plans to move to this area; Lewis
Jiasinbigler, Dallas RD 3; John Po-
i Dallas RD 4; Herman B.
Reese, Trucksville. 9
For cafeteria work: Mrs. Tessie
Polachek, Dallas R D 1; Mrs, Paul
Labar, Dallas; Mrs. Luther G. Wis-
mer, Shavertown.
Secretary-clerk, Mrs.
Wright, Dallas.
Lester Lewis was grantéd author-
ity to take students to the PMEA
district band April 20, to 22 at. Mon-
trose. Students are: Marilyn Eck,
bass clarinet; William E. Welch,
trombone; Robert Wileman, bari-
William
“three hours daily, to |;
tone; W. F.. Welch, tuba; Carl Ger-
man, clarinet; John : Wardell, cor-
net.
George McCutcheon, guidance
counselor, will drive five Westmore-
land girls to Wilson College open
house April 8, and will, with ‘Robert
Pol take twelve menybers of the
y Club to the Key Club Couvention |
eading April 14-16. wo
Locking To The Future
The school district has an
- the county superintendent of t
ols for application to the State |
Department of Instruction, PIBB-40- |
A form filed February 28, for con-
struction of a new elementary
school, when and if necessary with
or without notification of reimburse-
ment approval. It understood |
that later approval of reimburse-
ment would be retroactive.
Dr. Mellman, in ‘explaining this,
said that so much delay/is ‘exper-
ienced in having the mills grind out
a new school building, that it is
important to have the correct form
filled out and a number assigned
years in advance of the actuality.
He sees no necessity for such a build-
is
ing in the immediate future, but
feels the necessity for being pre-
pazed. ;
~ Change In Schedule
Commencement will take place
June 12 instead of June 13, as sched-
uled. Speaker Herbert Harrison "is
able to change his schedule to ac-
commodate. Irem Temple pavilion is
available. There is no surety that
the new auditorium will be rady.
Easter vacation has been increased
by one day. Schools will; be closed
the Wednesday before Easter, re-
main closed until Tuesday after
Faster, when they will reopen at
the usual times.
Storm Cost $1,423
The severe three-day snow storm:
this winter cost Dallas Borough
$1,423 ‘for extra labor, bulldozers,
snowplows, cinders and salt accord-
ing to a report made Tuesday night
by Robert Brown, secretary, at the
meeting of Borough Council.
Contagion
. During February, Dallas Schools
had six cases of chicken-pox, two
of measles, one case of mumps,
as {1
This +i 5%
crowd of Back Mountain supporters
who watched the Westmoreland-
West Hazleton basketball game at!
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A. COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
| th last Wednesday night.
| The weather was vile, the roads
liked — but on Monday night West
Hazelton had the wind taken out of |
partaof the. big egpectant | the Catholic Youth Center in Scran- [turn outias this:crowd: would havdithese/— so. glum above
— sraited.
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the picture ‘abovestand submits it
The Post will give a y¢ar’s sub-!to us on a typewritten sheet.
scription to. the person who ac-
were horrible and the game didn’t |its sails by Nanticoke and many of | curately identifies the most people
(Photo by Kozemchak)
© mo greys
Westmoreland majorettes will
appear in the High School’ Band
Concert Friday, March 24, presenting |
three groups, each with a separate |
routine. The high stepping major-
ettes have: added zest to football
games, parades, assembly programs,
and to last week's P. I. A. A. basket- |
ball game in Scranton.
Left to right, first row, are: Har-
riet Sands, Sharon DeRemer, Susan |
Williams, Donna Richell, and Sandra
Westmoreland Majorettes To Appear In Band Concert
| Hoover.
Second row:
| Carol Dymond, Susan Larish, Celia |
| Monka, Annabelle Ambrose, Shirley!
Yalick, and Donna Bolen.
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Toy Factory Explosion Is Felt
Throughout Back Mountain Area
y The terrific blast Monday after-
noon at 3:40 from the explosion of |
the Seliunier Manufacturing
pany in’ Luezrne where two per-
sons were killed and twelve serious-
ly injured, was felt throughout the
Back Mountain area.
Constable and Mrs.
Orange and started to check to see
if there was an explosion in their
furnace.
At The Dallas, Post’ two distinct
shocks were felt and employees |
checked the roof to see if a quanti- |
ty of snow had slid off.
Mrs. John Churry, feeling the
vibration at her home on Norton |
Avenue, Dallgs, rushed upstairs to |
see*if her son who was ill had fallen |
out of bed.
Com- |
Byron Kes- |
ter felt the shock at their home in
it “might be a thunder
rproaching.
storm ap-
| «Postmaster Joseph Polacky heard
a thud and thought it might be
Lewis Reese; one of the rural car-
| riers, dropping a lcad of mail
Neighbors = who felt the blast
called others "to find out if there
had been an accident or if they
[were all right. + Mrs. Henry Peter-
| son called the Dallas Post and asked
| if a coal truck had fallen over.
| When called neither Birth's Esso
Station nor Evans Drug Store had
felt the shock. /
| At the Kingston Township Build-
ing, Supervisor Austin Line,
at a desk, said: “What was ‘that 2?”
| Ted Poad answered: “Must be the
| furnace blew up’, and went down
| stairs to look,
Every window in MecCrory's Store ¢
in Shavertown, Shopping Center
vibrated and it was a wonder to
manager Thomas Hobbs that some
of them did not fall out.
Jean Agnew at Idetown heard
the blast in her home and thought
Custodian Vacations
Custodial Staff of Dallas Schools will |
| take a vacation June 19 to July 4,
linglusive,
Sportsmen Plan
Kunkle Dinner
Representatives of the Fish and
Game Commissions will attend the
covered dish dinner of Harveys Lake
"day evening March 20 at Kunkle
Community Hall,
Carleton Kocher be - chair-
man of the affair which is expected
will
to attract 175 members and wives.
The Club now has a membership
of slightly over 230. It has been
especially active in promofing good
sportsmanship = through = its educa-
tional = programs and’ during the
winter has assisted the Game and
work- | Fish Commissions through helping
to cut browse for deer and in stock-
ing Harveys Lake with 21,000 trout.
Regular meetings are held -the
last Monday of every month at the
Clubs own Club House at Alderson.
All members and their wives are
urged to make an effort to attend
the Covered Dish Supper which
| promises to be a rewarding evening
[of fellowship, information and en-
tertainment,
Sharon Gauntlett, |
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Rod and Gun Club to be held Mon- |
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Supervisors Lower
Commission On Taxes
Dallas Township Supervisors at |
heir recent meeting set the com- |
mission to be paid to the Tax Col- |
lector for the next:four years at 4- |
percent across the board.
Heretofor, the Supervisors have
paid the Tax Collector 4-percent on
taxes collected during the discount |
period. and 5-percent of face value !
after the penalty period.
To Report On Sewage
Feasibility Survey
Representatives - of Weston Inc.,
will present a report on the sewage
feasibility survey which they have
recently completed in Dallas Borough
and parts of Kingston Township and
Dallas Township Thursday night at
Dallas Borough Building,
Supervisors and Councilmen of
the three communities will be
present.
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VOL. 73, NO. 11, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961
Wrong — Nobody Seems To Be Smiling |Dallas Shopping
Center Expects
To Open June 1
Construction Of
Other Stores Will
Start In Two Weeks
Two months of delay caused by
severe winter weather is being over-
come by the contractor who is
building the beautiful new Colonial
A. and P. Building in Dallas Shop-
ping Center.
Exterior brick is being laid daily
and it is expected that the struc-
ture will be completed by May 1
so that the market can open on
June 1.
The architecture of the building
and its attractive appearance are
already exciting much favorable
comment in the area.
Louis Goeringer, “owner of the
Center, said yesterday that Addy
Brothers have completed much of
the rough grading and filling at the
parking lot and that the former
Pizza Building will be removed
within the next day or two so that
they can complete the work. The
fill will be allowed to settle for a
month before asphalt is applied.
Mr. Goeringer added that work
on the first section of stores will
start within the next two weeks so
that these, too, can be ready for oc-
cupancy by June 1. The first set
of stores will have a frontage of
144 feet. They will be ready for
lease by the end of this week.
U.GIL has placed poles at the
back of the lot so that power and
light can be brought in from the
rear of the property.
Pennsylvania Gas and Water
Company has run lines to all parts
of the Center so that paving will not
have to be disturbed when natural
gas is run into this area within the
next year or so.
Dallas Boy W as
Instantly Killed
In Explosion
Daniel D. Zimmerman, 26, Over-
{ brook Road, was instantly, killed
Monday afternoon at 3:33 in an ex-
plosion which levelled a toy factory
ia Luzerne. 0
Blown completely ' out of the
building, his ‘mangled body was
identified by his wedding ring.
His wife, caring for ten-month old
Both Parties
Have Complete
Tickets Here
Primary Election
Promises The Most
Excitement In Years
With complete Republican. and
Democratic tickets in all’ but one
community and A with four candi-
dates for school director-at-large
running in three districts, the
coming Primary election promises to
be one of the most exciting in years
in the Back Mountain area.
Listed below, as complete as we
could get it at .presstime, are the
candidates and the offices they are
seeking.
DALLAS TOWNSHIP
Democrat
Tax Collector—Anthony W. Hu-
dak.
J Srperiot ANY F. Wisnew-
Sk hol Director at Large—Welton
Farrar,
Republican
Tax itor. Wilson H. Ryman,
Thomas Moore.
Supervisor—Fred Lamoreaux, Har-
ry Martin.
Auditor—Victor Rydd.
School Director at Large—William
H. Clewell, Mrs. Thomas Vernon,
Edward Ratcliff. J
JACKSON TOWNSHIP
Democrat
Supervisor—Frank J. Elenchik.
Tax Collector-——Bernard Cigarski.
School Director—Joseph P. Gib-
bons:
Auditor—Fred Gabel. X
Justice of Peace—Sterling R.
Brown.
Republican
Supervisor—Reuben Gabel, Elmer.
Laskowski. 3
School Director—dJohn Fielding,
George Bulford.
Auditor—Carl V. ‘Aston.
Tax Collector—Louis T. Wilcox.
KINGSTON TOWNSHIP
Democrat
Tax Collector—Henry G. Kann.
Justice of Peace—Barbara Loh-
mann.
School Director at Large—Welton
Farrar.
Republican :
Supervisor — Arthur TF. Smith,
Louis Ranier, Edward E. Richards.
School Director at Large—Mrs
Thomas E. Vernon, William Cle-
well, Edward Ratcliff. :
Tax Collector—Vern . Pritchard,
Theodore A. Poad, Theodore Wool-
baxt.
Justice of Peace—James H. Good~
win, Ralph E. Walp; Jr., Beatrice L.
Wiliams, « Frederick Ww. Anderson.
Constable—Earl Gregory. : :
Auditor—F. Allan Nichols, ih
LAKE TOWNSHIP 5 :
Joyce Marie, heard and felt the ex-| pemocrat
plosion eight miles away.
She called her -mother,
Jacob Novicki, on Bunker Hill.
“Did you hear an explosion 2”
“I heard something, Dorothy, but
I thought it was thunder. No, I see
a lot of smoke down over the hill.
Must be in Luzerne.”
Five minutes later the radio in-
terrupted its program. There had
been an explosion in Luzerne. No-
(Continued on Section A, Page 8)
Mrs.
of
Greater Back Mountain District 10
met with the general chairman and
vice chairman of the 1961 Crusade
of Luzerne County Unit, American
Cancer Society, at the home of Mrs.
Lee J. McCarthy, Jr., 76 Elmcrest
Drive, for a briefing session.
In the picture are, left to right,
seated: Mrs. McCarthy, chairman of’
North Back Mountain District; Mrs.
Robert J.! Hughes, 60 Cortona St.,
chairman of South Back Mountain
District; Bud Crossin, Crusade vice
chairman; Mrs. Charles Mannear,
Dallas Township; Mrs. Richard Cal-
kins, Carverton.
District ‘and Area Chairmen
Standing: Frank M. Henry, Cru-
sade chairman; Mrs. Robert W. |
Kleiner, East Trucksville; Miss
A
Esther Boston, West Trucksville;
Mrs. Ambrose Gavigan, East Shaver-
town, Mrs. Nathaniel R. Elliott, ex-
ecutive director, Cancer Society;
Mrs. J. Warren Yarnal, . Dallas
Borough chairman.
Other chairmen, absent when the
picture was taken, are: Mrs. Gordon
Daw, Lehman; Mrs. Vernon' Ash,
West Shavertown; Mrs. Sheldon
Rice, Jackson Township; Mrs. George
Wyckoff and Mrs. James Mitchell,
co-chairmen, Franklin Township;
Mrs. Peter Wolfe, Sweet Valley; Mrs.
Pia Franconi, Harvey's Lake.
Mr. Henry spoke on the reasons
for the Crusade and the importance
of the educational material put into
every home by Crusaders, Mrs. El-
Back Mountain Prepares For Cancer Crusade
liott talked on the services of the
Cancer Society. She said that more
patients in the Back Mountain area
are being helped through the! ser-
vices of the Cancer Society today
than at any other given time.
Mr. Crossin explained the mechan-
ics of the Crusade.
A film, “One Million Dividends,”
moderated by Robert Montgomery,
was shown. Material was given to
area chairmen and arrangements
were made for meetings of area
chairmen with their district chair-
men.
April is Cancer Crusade month.
The one-night coverage has been set
for Tuesday, April 18. The quota for
Luzerne County is $54,000.
Supervisor—dJoseph S.: Baniorko.
Tax Collector—Perry Hoover, Jr.
John J. Tobin. . \
School Director — Russell G.
Newell, John R. Honeywell, ‘Joseph
G. Schappert.
Justice of Peace—Helen Sgarlat.
Auditor—Joseph Zosh. y
Republican
Supervisor—Sharon Whitesell
Tax Collector—Arthur G. Engler,
Calyin' McHose, Carleton B. Kocher.
Auditor—Harold Maya.
School Director—Willard Sutton,
Howard L. Piatt.
Justice of Peace—Jean Marie Pall.
DALLAS
Democrat
Council—George Cave, J. Warren
Yarnel, George Weale.
School Director—Welton Farrar.
Tax collector—Margaret MoDers
| mott.
! Republican
Burgess—Thomas H. Morgan.
School Director at Large—William
H. Clewell, Edward Ratcliffe, Mrs.
Thomas Vernon.
Auditor-—Walter T. Rowett.
Tax Collector—Arthur R. Dungey.
Constable—Russell Honeywell
Justice of Peace—Fred W. Jen-
| nings.
| Council—Robert F. Moore, Wilbur
| H. Davis, Grace T. Cave, Hanford L.
| Eckman.
LEHMAN TOWNSHIP
| Democrat
Supervisor— Walter Meade.
Tax Collector——John = E. Kern,
Anthony Toluba.
School Director—John Chesno-
vitch, Charles Honeywell. ........... ...
Republican
School Director—Joseph Niezgoda,
Bruce Williams, William Naugle,
Supervisor—Michael 1. Godek.
Tax Collector—Hope, Ide, Margaret
Sponseller, Robert Disque,
ROSS TOWNSHIP
Democrat
Supervisor—Raymond Shaw.
School Director—Chester Culver,
Michael L. Adams.
Republican
\ Supervisoy— Michael Niemchik,
Al-bert K. Wallace,
Tax | Collector—Howard L. Post,
Robert E. Gray.
School Director—Harry H. Fisk,
Cletus L. Holcomb, Jr.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
Republican
Supervisor—Herman Coon
School Director—Donald
lop, Mrs. Paul Steinhauer.
Tax Collector—Nellie Eaton,
Constable—Byron Kester.
Justice of The Peace—John Fow-
er.
Auditor—Dave Parry.
Inspector of Election—Mrs. Mil-
dred Lord.
Hes-
Dallas Acme Tomodels
Dallas Acme Market will be closed
Monday and Tuesday to permit com-
pletion of the remodelling project
now under way. On Wednesday,
the newly decorated store will opea
.
hat the usual hour,