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Local Central Catholic Students
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Take Awards At Science Fair
Charlene Makar took a second
place at Central Catholic Science
Fair March 7, and Henry Mastalski
took a third.
Charlene worked up a demonstra-
tion of photosynthesis in plant life,
using an arrangement of bell glass
over a living plant, copper wire, a
and a candle, to show how
much oxygen is given off by a plant.
Her apparatus will be shown at the
Science Fair at King’s College April
7, 8, and 9, and statistical drawings
have been submitted to Future
Scientist Magazine of America.
Henry worked up a clear demon-
stration of how rain is made, show-
ing how sun evaporates water into
vapor, and moisture condenses when
it meets cold air. Henry used a
variety of devices to indicate clouds,
as high pressure and low pressure
areas met; a blinker light simulating
lightning, and an unique arrange-
ment of ping-pong ball bounced by
a spring against a bucket, to repro-
duce thunder. J
Both Charlene and Henry are
freshmen, newly graduated from
Gate of Heaven School. Charlene is
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent
Makar, Hillcrest Drive. Henry is son
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mastalski,
Sterling Avenue.
In a more advanced field, John
Curtis, Shavertown, a junior at
Central Catholic, took a first with
his project, setting lights to music,
the lights dancing to vibrations set
up by various tones. This is John's
second first prize. He took a first
in his freshman year, along the same
general lines. Waves are his field.
He is a ham radio operator, with
and a commercial license.
eleven. His mother, Mrs. John Curtis,
says he expects to go into the
medical research field, specializing in
the wave therapy.
John is also a graduate of Gate of
Heaven parochial school.
Rotary Offers Area Girl Chance To
President Joseph Sekera of the
Dallas Rotary club has recently
announced an unusual opportunity
for a young woman between 20 and
25 years of age to be hostess to a
oh Fr ench girl of 20 here and then visit |
this young. lady in her home near
Library Board
Honors Memory
Of Mrs. LeGrand
Board Is Seeking
New Librarian To
Replace Miss Lathrop
A brass plaque in memory of Mrs.
Lewis LeGrand was affixed .to" her
chair at the meeting of Back Moun-
tain Memorial Library Board of
Directors on Tuesday night in ‘the |
Library Annex.
At the same time Miriam Lathrop,
librarian, said that a considerable
sum of money has been given to the
LeGrand’s friends
Miss Lathrop also acknowledged ¢
receipt of a set of twenty volume
Encyclopedias. from the
State Library as part of $500 worth
of books which are being contri-
buted to the Library. Included will
also be a set of 1961 Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Other recent acquisitions are: The
American Heritage Picture History
of the Civil War and the two-volume +
Life Edition of Winston Churchill’s |
Second World War hoth given by
Fred Strohl; a beautiful book, “The
Ornamental Chair and Its Develop-
ment from 1700 to 1890,” the gift
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frantz, and
eight volumes from money given by
Commonwealth Telephone Company
employees as a tribute to Mr. and
Mrs. Andrew J. Sordoni at the time
of their Fiftieth Wedding Anniver-
sary.
Homer Moyer, reporting for the
that |
WR efforts are being made to employ
Personnel Committee, ‘said
an accredited librarian to replace
Miss Lathrop when she retires this
fall. He ‘said his committee will
as contact the Placement Bureaus of
' seven eastern colleges which give
courses in library’ science in order
that it may interview 1961 graduates
or former graduates. The committee
hopes to employ someone before
September 1 so that the new libra-
rian may be trained under Miss
Lathrop before she leaves in Novem-
ber.
Mrs. Hanford Eckman reported for
Friends of the Library which is just |
completing its membership drive.
Mrs. Herman Thomas, president of |
the Book Club, announced that the
Libr ary has been invited to take |
part in the Fine Arts Fiesta to be |
held in Wilkes-Barre this spring.
Ralph Hazeltine for the Building |
Committee reported that new gut-
ters are needed for the Annex. These |
were ordered to be installed.
Dr. L. E. Jordan, chairman, and |
Richard Dmmy, co-chairman, of the |
Auction Committee announced that |
all of their committees are function- |
ing and that special emphasis will be
placed this year on the Arts and
Crafts booth.
Myron Baker, Charles Frantz and
Walter Mohr were named to
into the possibilities, costs and
operating expenses of a Bookmobile.
Miss Lathrop reported 1,400 books
discarded. ‘There were seven new |
adult and 21 new child borrowers
during March. Circulation was 3,400
volumes.
Attending were: Robert Bachman,
Mrs. Fred Howell, Richard Demmy,
Dr. Lester Jordan, Frank Slaff, Mrs.
Harold Titman, Frances Dorrance,
Miriam Lathrop, Mrs. Charles Frantz, |
Mrs. H. W. Smith, Mrs. Paul Gross,
Homer Moyer,
Mrs. Thomas Heffernan, Mrs. Han-
ford Eckman, Mrs. Herman Thomas, |
and Atty. Mitchell |
Ralph Hazeltine,
Jenkins.
look |
Frederick Eck, Mrs. |
Stanley Davis, Jr. Howard Risley, |
« Exchange Visits With French Girl
Paris for a 3-month period.
The French gir] is the daughter of |
a judge, living in a suburb of Paris,
come to Pennsylvania this summer
or fall for a three-month visit, during
which time she wishes to see New |
York, Philadelphia and nearby points
- of interest. She speaks and writes
English fluently. The host family
iis: to: have a daughter between 20
and -25 years of age.
In exchange, the young woman
will be hostess at her home near
‘Paris to the American during the
winter ‘or spring season of 1962,
and show her Paris and points of
interest in that area, for a three
month period.
". Transportation and clothing will
be the responsibility financially of
the guest. Insurance for this period
| is also suggested.
Any interested young woman may
contact Dr. L. E. Jordan, Trucksville,
District Chairman of Rotary Inter-
Committee Has
Vocational Panel
5 Citizens Committee for Better
Schools heard a discussion of vo-
cational education last Wednesday
evening. Carl Goeringer, chairman
of the study committee, moderated
a panel composed of Joseph M. Rak-
shys, teacher of industrial arts at
| Westmoreland High School; Edward
i F. Kotchi, director and principal of
{ Wyoming = Valley Technical Insti-
tute; Mrs. Catherine W. Birth, coun-
ty coordinator of homemaking; and
Thomas H. Jenkins, teacher of busi-
ness education at Westmoreland
High- School.
Vocational education is intended
| primarily to ‘prepare young people
for useful citizenship in the chang-
ing ‘world. . Many’ who begin their
| training ‘in vocational courses find
the skills open the necessary doors
to eventual collegiate training. All
vocational © courses aim to teach
basic skills, safety, familiarity with
specific work situations, and the
dignity of work well done.
At Westmoreland, about forty
| percent of the students choose busi-
ness education. As space in the new
i school ‘permits expansion, it is
planned to include basic economics
and skills requisite for use of the
new business machines. Mr. Jenk-
ins pointed out that students will
be able to choose their electives ac-
cording to their interests.
Mrs. Birth explained that home
St.-Germain-en-Laye. She wishes to |
cnly one examination between him |
He got |
his novice rating when . ten years |
old, and his general rating when |
‘national Exchange Program, for
applications. © The deadline will be |
April ‘3.
| economics builds skills useful to all |
| students as well as offering specific
| vocational training. Basic nutrition,
sewing, home management,
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Westmoreland Senior Band Concert Tomorrow Night
Cas
VOL. 73, NO. 12, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961
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Left to Right
Row 1: John Zarno, Gary White<|
sell, Vivian Cobb, Del Voight,
Kenneth Jones, John Wardell, San- |
dra Strazdus, Judy Miller.
Row 2: Sharon Samuels, Karen
Samuels, Kar en + Culver, Dorothy
classes. The current concern here
is to broaden the program to in-
clude wider experience vith young
children.
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Oliver Rome, Charles Mannear and
William Wright. :
STORK SETS PACE
FOR AMBULANCE,
PREMATURE SON.
Dallas Community Ambu-
lance, paced by the stork, rush-
ed a prospective mother to
General Hospital Wednesday
morning at 1:20. Mrs. John Bey-
rent: Jr. of Harrisburg, wel-
comed a premature son, born
shortly after arrival.
Dr. and Mrs. Beyrent reached
Dallas Tuesday evening at nine,
Mrs. Beyrent expecting to spend
a few days at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ornan
Lamb, Machell Avenue, her hus-
band planning to attend a den-
tal convention in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Lamb has been a patient
at General, expecting to come
home within a few days.
Staffing the ambulance were
Jack Berti, Leslie Tinsley, and
Ray Titus.
Public Meeting On
Sewage Coming Later
A public meeting will be held
sometime later this Spring to hear
the results’ of a sewage feasibility |
report which will be presented
tonight to the sanitation committees
of Dallas Borough, Dallas Township
and Kingston Township by repre-
sentatives of Weston Inc.
)
Tonight's meeting is not a public
| meeting and will be for members of
and | Dallas Borough and Supervisors of
child guidance are covered in these Kingston and Dallas Townships only.
Many Back Mountain Men In
Police Prisoner Of War Unit
| when the roll is called at the 402nd
| Military Police Prisoner of ‘War
| Camp unit. The unit met recently
lin an all day drill in preparation for
its summer training which will be a
command post. exercise and map
maneuver for the U. S. Army held
in conjunction with the Departments
of State, Navy and Air Force. The
name of the maneuver is ‘LOGEX
61” and it will take place at Fort
| Lee, Virginia.
The 402nd is the only Military
Police Prisoner of War Camp unit
in the mation, to be so honored by
being selected to participate
“LOGEX 61.”
Recent preparation consisted of a
series of classes on the phonetic
alphabet and coding technique. The
| phonetic alphabet is used for spelling
or clarification in the sending and
receiving of messages in military
| communications. The phonetic al-
phabet is used in place of letters
such as “Alpha” in place of “A”.
This alphabet will be used for. send-
in
the “LOGEX 61” maneuvers.
The’ men from the Back Mountain |
Area are: Lt. Col. €arl Burt Olsen,
188 Terrace Avenue,
Jack H. Magee,
Shavertown, Intelligence Officer
Maj. John J. Mulhern,
Franklin, 27 S. [Pioneer Avenue,
Trucksville; Sp5 Robert W. Johnson,
58 Carverton Road, Trucksville, Sp5 |
William Hill, Jr., Box 219, RD. 5,
Shavertown, Sp5 Thecdore E. New- |
comb, 130 Parrish Street, Dallas;
Sp5 John Berti, 142 S. Main Street, |
Shavertown; and Pfc. James P. Kelly, |
Orchard Avenue, Dallas.
On arrival at Fort Lee, the 402nd |
will be divided into three simulated |
Prisoner of War Camps which will |
have telephone, radio and teletype
communications set up within the
camps.
The unit leaves for summer camp |
April 22nd and will return May 6th. |
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Study #Cothimiétee ‘included |
22 Joseph |
Street, Dallas, Adjutant; SFC. Robert |
Mathers, Sandra Chere, Nancy Wolfe,
Sandra Ash, Gale Graves, Catherine |
Ide.
Row 3: Mr.
| rector) John Dana, Richard Ratcliffe, |
Donald Williams, James Wertman. |
| Robert Gardner, William Welch, Carl
In any manner, shape or form,
The leaves, a hundred million,
|
In an ‘attempt to forestall trage-
at the hands of degenerates in large
cities, Back Mountain Police Associa- |
tion in cooperation with local schools
has embarked on’ a novel educational |
campaign among pupils in the first, |
second and third grades.
Kingston Township Police Chief
Herbert Updyke,
| Association has announced that 500
pupils have
classr ooms by the schools.
Back Mountain is well represented ing and receiving coded messages in Round Table To Have Choice Seats
At Band Concert Of Civil War Music
Trucksville, |
53 Perrin Avenues, |
! Executive Officers of 402nd, Maj.
A special section at Irem Temple
| will be reserved for members of
| Back Mountain Civil War Round
Table when Stegmaier Gold Medal
Band presents its Cent(nnial Mem-
| orial Civil War Concert on Monday
|'night, April 10.
| John J. Sauer, bandmaster, and
| John Ney, longtime member of the
band, made this announcement to
{ members of the Round Table at its
meeting in the Library (Annex.
Both Mr. Sauer and Mr. Ney are
| charter members.
The concert will be devoted
entirely to Civil numbers and there
will also be Civil Was exhibits in the
| lobby of the Temple. Admission will
| be free. There will be many other
| interesting features including guest
artists.
| Mrs. Betty Rather, secretary of
| the Round Table] has announced that
Lester R. Lewis (Di- |
Song 01 The New Suburbanite
If you've never left the city, to achieve suburban bliss
This story isn't for you and its naint you'll surely miss
For the change to country! liviidg ‘Ginries blessings not unmixed
And you seem to be in orbit where, before, you just stayed fixed.
The blessings came profusely in the summer when we moved
And life ‘neath balmy summer skies just couldn't be improved
And we brought our city friends on out to stop, look and agree.
Then came the Fall, with cold surprises up her sleeves
She painted flaming colors on a hundred million leaves
And though it formed a picture both exquisite and breathtaking
Then good old Mother Nature, with bland and cunning guile
Bestowed upon us, briefly, her most engaging smile
That brought, in late November, a summer afterglow
And really set us up for Winter's frigid, knockout blow.
It snowed in early winter and in the middle too
It snowed and blowed and I suspect, right now it it isn’t through
While we, as new suburbanites,
But sometimes wished (just sometimes) that we again were urban.
But spring is here officially, (the paper says.it’s so)
We tenderfeet suburbanites survived the cold and snow
So now if we were called to sound a note of praise, we'd strike it
By paraphrasing ancient Rome—We came, We saw, We like it.
Police Urge Children Not To.
Accept Favors From Strangers
dies such as have befallen children |
secretary of the |
| copies of a poster for coloring by |
been distributed to |
[German David Glahn, Paul Haradem.
| Row 4: Beverly Race, Judy Wil-
| liams, Carol Sutton, Lynn McCarty, | Weigel,
Donald Anderson, Donna Meyers,
i Dorothy Bek, Thomas Landon, David |
| Barry Wyskok, Margaret Hall, Paul
Jenkins.
Nancy Seiber,
Kimball.
| Eck,
Row 5: William Welch, Susan | Barbara Prokopchak, Robert Dy-
Jean Ide, | mond,
Patricia = Sinicrope, Mary Bennett, | | | Strauser, Thomas Houlette,
|
Row 6: Harold Smith, Marilyn | Warren Edmundson, John Ferguson.
I
Dale Mosier, Beverly - King,
Robert = Wileman, James
Missing from picture:
I tell you, no sir’ee
fell—and yes—they needed raking.
tried hard to act suburban
—W. G. SEAMAN
| The poster depicts a child leaving
school and being accosted by a
| stranger who is holding a bag of
candy as an inducement for the
child to come with him.
Beneath the picture which the
{ children will color are four warnings:
1. Turn down gifts of strangers; 2.
Refuse rides offered by strangers;
3. Avoid dark and lonely streets; 4.
| Know your local policeman.
{ Chief Updyke urges parents con-
stantly to keep reminding their chil-
| dren of these cardinal rules.
Robert Bachman, president,
from E. IS. Wellhofer, Shrine Acres,
| plant manager of Hazard Wire Rope
| Division American Chain and Cable
| Company.
The check is the gift of the Wil- |
{ iam T. Morris Foundation, created |
by the late William T. Morris, West
Pittston native, who at the time of
the program committee is in com-
munication with the Superintendents |
of the National Cemetery Parks at |
Gettysburg, Antietam and Fred-|
ericksburg with a view to making |
arrangements for a guided tour of |
one or more of these battlefields | hic death
early this year. is death some ten years ago was
Copies of “Ponnsylvania. snd the president of American Chain & Cable
Civil War” published by the Penn- { Company.
sylvania Historical Commission have Mr. Morris founded the American
been obtained for all members of | Chain Company which later became
the Round Table and will be distri- | the American Chain & Cable Com-
buted ‘at the next meeting on |Pany.
April 14. | The gift to the library is part of
» | 841, 000 distributed this year to a
Takes Fall Down Stairs |} 10 Wyoming Valley Hosp.
Mrs. Hillman Dress is back at her
tals, charitable and educational insti-
desk in the office of Gate of Heaven | tutions. It is the first gift of its
Church, after spending a painful | kind ever received by Back Moun-
( weekend recovering from the effects | tain Memorial Library and will be
of a fall Friday night down the |used exclusively for books of gen- |
' Thomas Robinson,
basement stairs of her home eral interest, 7
re.
|
ceives a check in the amount of $500 | ard employees living in the Back
for Back Mountain Memorial Library | Mountain area have taken an active
| interest
William I. Morris. Fund Remembers Library
‘Throughout the years many Haz- |
in the Library and its
| annual auction; among them Thomas
i Kingston, of the grounds committee;
| James Kozemchak,
| grapher;
| som, antiques patron.
auction photo-
Algert Antanaitis, refresh-
| ment committee and George Greg-
Many others
like Mr. Wellhofer have lent their
support to the library in various
ways.
Candidates Names Omitted
The names of a number of candi-
dates for public offices in the Back
Mountain area were unavoidably
missed in last week’s Issue of this
newspaper.
Among them were: Dallas Town-
ship, Tax Collector
ticket, Clarence Laidler, Daniel
Richards; Justice the
Republican
of Peace,
James Fry, |
Library Budget
For Operations
Set At $12,900
Deficit Of $7,000
Will Have To Come
From Annual Auction
The operating budget of Back
Mountain Memorial Library for 1961
was set at $12,900 by the Board of
Directors meeting Tuesday night in
the Library Annex.
Anticipated income from all
sources except the auction is ex-
pected to be about $5,900. This,
estimate is based on actual receipts
during 1960.
Thus the Library will have a
$7,000 operating deficit at the end
of 1961. This amount must be made
up, as it has in former years, from
auction receipts.
Anticipated operating - expenses
for the year are made up as follows:
books and periodicals $1,300; Book
Club books, $500; book transfers,
$40; memory books $100; stationery
and supplies $250; water $85; heat
$700; electricity $325; maintenance
$600; telephone $175; insurance
$700; salaries $7,000; social security
$210; petty cash $500; capital ex-
penditures $300; miscellaneous $115.
| The only increases in expenditures
| over last year are $25 for memory
|
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books; $25 for telephone, $50 for
insurance, $1,500 for salaries and
| $45 for social securities. No major
| capital expenditures are anticipated.
| Cuts in the budget were made for
| capital‘ expenditures; stationery and
| supplies and petty cash.
| The report of the finance com-
| mittee composed of Frederick Eck,
| Homer - B. Moyer, D. T. Scott,
| Howard Risley and Ralph Hazeltine,
| showed that no sizable individual
| gifts were received last year by the
| library other than $587 represented
| by small gifts given through The
Friends of the Library.
The only contributions from any
municipal bodies were Dallas School
District $1,000; Lake-Lehman School
District $300.
Dallas Junior Woman's Club con-
| tributed $50 and Dallas Senior Wo-
{ man’s Club contributed $250. Income
| from investments was $1,850.
Hanford Eckman
Is A Candidate
tiles On Repunlican
Ticket For Council
Hanford Eckman, Machell Avenue,
president of Dallas Borough PTA and
chief engineer and secretary of Dallas
Engineers, has thrown his hat in
the ring for one of the positions open
on Dallas Borough Council.
Mr. Eckman, a newcomer to
politics, is a graduate of Purdue
University where he majored in
aeronautical engineering, Following
graduation he took a position with
Republic Aviation and served as
technical representative on aircraft
in the NATO countries, Denmark,
Germany and Norway. This was
followed by service in the SETO
countries notably Japan.
Returning to the United States
after four years overseas, Mr. Eck-
man became chief engineer for
Coal-O-Matic Company, later to
become Dallas Engineers.
Mr. Eckman has a keen sense of
community responsibility. As a par-
ent of three children, Elizabeth,
Peter and Charles, he is deeply
interested in good schools.
His wife, Phyllis, a graduate
pharmacist from Purdue, has similar
interests being a member of Back
Mountain Memorial Library Board
of Directors, a member of Dallas
Junior Woman’s Club and Women
of Rotary.
Mr. Eckman ‘is a member of
George M. Dallas Lodge F. & A. M.,,
Dallas Rotary Club, Dallas PTA,
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools and is on the membership
Committee of Wilkes-Barre-Wyom-
ing Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Have You Seen Spot?
A hound dog answering to the
name of Spot, property of the late
Daniel Zimmerman of Overbrook
Road, who was killed in the Luzerne
toy factory explosion last Monday, is
wandering the neighborhood, and
has been seen in several places.
Mrs. Zimmerman lost track of Spot
| when she left her home on Over-’
i brook Road to stay with her mother
on Bunker Hill.
Spot is of medium size, is brown,
white and black, and looks as if he
had two black eyes. Robert Post’s
animal hospital will know how to
get in touch with the family, if a
resident sees the wanderer.
Charter Night Tonight
For Dallas Rotary
Tonight is Charter Night for Dallas
Rotary. Speaker at the anniversary
dinner at Irem Country Club will be
Winston XK. Pendleton of Falls
Church, Virginia. A well known pro-
fessional speaker, one of his speeches
has been recorded in the Library of
Congress.
On the Charter Night committee-
are: LF. Kingsley, Chairman, James
Besecker and Robert Wade,