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To Teach Hostess Arts
| MRS. HARRY R. CAR
Mrs. Carson To Teach Hostess Arts
At Home-Makers Holiday Session
Mrs. Harry R. Carson, Shrine
Acres, will coordinate Perfect Host-
ess Classes for the spring sessions
of YWCA Back Mountain Home-
Makers Holiday, scheduled to start
Tuesday morning at 10 with open
house and registration at the YMCA
building in Shavertown.
Mrs. Carson is well qualified to
lead this popular course.
A graduate of Indiana State
Teachers College, specializing in
home making and allied subjects,
she taught for seven years in Dayton.
She finds it hard to say whether
?
A likes sewing best, or fine cookery
and party planning. Creative cook- |
ing and preparations for special
Occasions are to her a sheer delight,
land experience with teaching makes
it possible for her to transmit her
knowledge, with the minimum of
delay.
‘While spending some time in
Syracuse, she taught sewing for four
years at the Singer Sewing Machine
Company, and for three years in-
structed in evening adult education
classes.
One of her sons, Robert Barry
Carson, is still in Syracuse, working
at the University toward a doctorate
in history and legal science. Another
son, Larry W., is at Bucknell Uni-
versity, taking pre-medical, work.
Mr. Carson heads the Northeast
Division for Acme Stores. The newly | tive and party cookery will be a | Bureau of Motor Vehicles will be |
redecorated Dallas Acme owes some
making talents.
where she is chairman of mainten-
ance; to Women's Auxiliary, Irem
Temple; Shavertown Methodist
Church; and Dallas Woman's Club.
In heading the Hostess courses for
Mrs. Carson is joining up with a
‘number of other enthusiastic in-
structors.
The eight-weeks course will
include lessons in Basic Art, taught
by Mrs. Joseph Betz; ceramics,
taught by Mrs. Arthur Hontz; acces:
sory magic, including glove making
and sweater beading; tailoring, Mrs.
Robert Miller; bridge, Mrs. Charles
Flack and Mrs. John DeWitt.
E. V. Chadwick, Luzerne County
Thumb class, and the popular millin-
ery class will continue under in-
struction of Mrs, George Thomas.
Montgomery.
Bridge class instructors announce
that a bridge tournament will be
I held during the entire eight-week
| session. Former bridge students are
{ welcome. ;
The nursery is under direction of
Mrs. Thomas Smith.
The Perfect Hostess classes will
take into consideration planning of
dinners for special occasions. Crea-
feature.
of its charm to Mrs. Carson’s home- Mrs. A. A. Sinicrope will assist.
All The Coffee You Can Drink For A Buck
Louis J. Purvin, Chairman of the 1961 Easter
Seal Campaign, and Mrs. F. Edgar Kudlich, past
president of Wyoming Valley Crippled Children’s
Association, drop in to visit the Forty Fort Ice
cream Store to discuss with Melvin Mosier, owner,
the final plans for Coffee Day, today March 30.
Specific
at the restaurant.
Mr. Mosier has long been interested in this
instructions for the affair and the
cause for which it is held are explained to Mrs.
Kenneth Gerloch and Mrs. Frantz Scholl, waitresses
Mrs. Carson belongs to the YWCA, |
the YWCA in the Back Mountain, |
agent, will again teach the Green |
Golf will be taught by Mrs. George |
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Hedden To Build
General Offices
In Dallas Borough
Building On Memorial
Early In The Fall
Ground was broken this week for
the new general offices of Raymon
R. Hedden & Company, general con-
tractors, on a plot of land on the
former Grand View Estates opposite
Crown Imperial Bowling Lanes on
Memorial Highway. :
The plot has a frontage of approx-
imately 400 feet and depth of 250
feet.
Mr. Hedden, a former Dallas Bor-
ough Councilman, is the man who
developed the Birch Lane residential
area in Dallas Borough.
His firm is currently constructing
the new additions to Wilkes-Barre
General Hospital, Lazarus Depart-
ment Store, Wilkes-Barre, and St.
John’s High School in Pittston. He
has constructed many high schools,
hospitals, churches and industrial
buildings
and North Central Pennsylvania.
The new offices will be of single
story construction and among the
finest to be found anywhere.
Mr. Hedden has sold his hold-
{ings in the Nanticoke Lumber &
| Supply Company in Nanticoke and
| temporary offices in Nanticoke will
| hold the general offices until the
| Dallas structure is completed early
| this fall.
| The ground was formerly owned
| by Benjamin and David Jenkins.
| Harold Cornell is clearing it of
| trees and underbrush.
| Astronaut Will Play
| To National Audience
Both T-V and radio will cover
the launching of the astronaut late
next month, follow his flight 290
miles down the target flight into the
Caribbean, and his recovery in the
space capsule.
At a speed of 4,500 miles per hour,
the chosen astronaut will be hurled
| aloft 115 miles, describe a trajec-
tory, and fall into the sea sixteen
minutes later.
Radi listeners will hear actual
reports from the astronaut taped
as he makes his historic flight.
Television viewers will see the pro-
|jectile leave the latinching pad, and
view the actual recovery of the space
capsule.
No
| But all broadcasting media will co-
operate in bringing the historic step
into outer space to the listening
public.
License Deadline
Extended 4 Days
The State Revenue Department
teday extended until midnight April
| 4 the deadline for renewal of license
| registration of motor vehicles.
Secretary Charles M. Dougherty
| said the extension was granted be-
| cause the normal expiration day,
| closed that day, but will be open
| Saturday to process applications.
Mrs.
particular project, ‘having an outstanding record
for his participation in Coffee Day in 1960.
Seated, left to right, Mrs. Kenneth Gerloch,
Louis J. Purvin, Mrs, E. Edgar Kudlich. Standing,
Frantz Schall and Melvin Mosier.
Coffee Day is sponsored by Northeast Restau-
rant Association. Other restaurants cooperating in
the Rack Mountain area are: Dixon’s Restaurant in
Dallas; Orchard Farm Restaurant in Dallas, and
Crown Imperial Bowling Lanes Restaurant on Me-
morial Highway,
Highway To Be Opened |
throughout Northeastern |
definite date has been set. |
| March 31, falls on Good Friday. The |
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WILLIAM CLEWELL
Seeking re-election after serving
one full six-year term and part of
another to which he was appointed
| after the death of the late Stanley
Henning is William H. Clewell of
Carverton Road, Trucksville.
Bill has played an important part
in bringing Back Mountain schools
up to their: present high standard;
first in working with Kingston, Dal-
las, and. Franklin Townships and
Dallas Borough to make a workable
jointure and second to bring them
together in a Union District.
For two ‘years he was chairman
of the important finance committee
of which he is'still a member and
also serves on the policy and cafe-
teria committees.
He “has’ enjoyed,” he says, and
you can tell that he means it; “work-
ing intimately with the nineteen
men on. the board to solve the pro-
proving schools.”
public service.
He ‘holds an administrative posi-
tion with Blue. Ribbon Cake Com-
pany. ;
A native of . Wilkes-Barre, his
family early moved to a community
near Allentown, where he attended
the first five grades in a: one-room
school. Later he attended Allen-
town schools ‘and graduated from
Coughlin High School, Wilkes-Barre,
in 1925. He is a graduate of Warton
School ' extension of Universtiy of
Pennsylvania. This background gives
him a broad insight into educational
problems.
He and Mrs. Clewell, the former
Pauline Boyer, have two children
{ both graduates of Westmoreland
| High School,” Mrs. Charles (Jean) |
| Ford rand. Douglas, now in the Air
Force. X
Both: Mr. ‘and ‘Mrs. Clewell are
active in Trucksville Methodist
Church where Bill is a member of the
Board of Trustees, the Official Board
and. thé Finance Committee and also
sings in. the choir.
His hobbies. are music, and ‘he
loves to sing. He is a member of
Orpheus Glee Club.
College Misericordia
Will Receive Award
| Community . Service .Award. of
Back . Mountain ‘Protective Associa-
tion will be awarded to Misericordia
College, according to an, announce-
ment of Rev. Robert Yost, president
of the Association.
The Community Service Award
goes to an individual or organization
in’ recognition of achievement, in-
dustry and advancements benefitting
the Back Mountain Area.
The formal award will be made at
a dinner to be held at Irem Temple
Country Club Monday evening, May
1.© Program and dinner committee
will be announced later.
Robert W. Laux was chairman of
. the Nominating Committee that re-
commended the award. Serving with
him ‘were Rev. Yost, Charles Glawe,
Frank Wadas, Dr.-F. B. Schooley and
Atty. James Brown.
BURGESS WARNS
OF FIRE HAZARD
OF BURNING TRASH
Burgess Thomas Morgan re-
minds residents that drying
winds are making open fields a
fire hazard, and warns against
burning rubbish without safe-
guards. March is a bad month
for grass fires.
Twelve administrators and direc-
| tors of Dallas Schools were in Phila-
| delphia last weekend where they
| had an opportunity to see displays of
| the finest in new school equipment
| at the Regional Convention of the
| American Association of School
| Administrators.
| Those making the trip were Dr.
| Robert Mellman, Frank Trimble,
| Arch Austin, John Rosser and Direc-
tors Dr. Robert M. Bodycomb,
| Francis Ambrose, Alton Whittaker,
James Mitchell, Harry Sickler, Wal-
| ter Phillips, and William Clewell.
| They were especially interested in
| cafeteria equipment, mobile units
land audio visual aids.
EDWARD RATCLIFFE
A man who has been a registered
voting Republican since 1936, but
who feels that politics has no place
in any school system is Edward
Ratcliffe, 140 Goeringer Avenue,
Shavertown.
Mr. Ratcliffe is a candidate for the
Republican nomination for school
director-at-large.
A native of New Jersey, he was
educated in Camden City Schools
and at Temple University.
He came here from Runnemede,
N. J. in 1952 as District Manager
for Philip Carey Manufacturing
Company in their Industrial Insula-
tion Division.
In 1954 he joined Culp Brothers
in Kingston as manager of Culp In-
dustrial Insulation. He is on the
Board of Directors of the Middle
{
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In short, he likes | is none the less devoted to children
1
Atlantic Insulation Contractors’
| Association.
blems of rapidly growing and im- |
A hard-working businessman, he
and to music. He taught church
school for three years at Prince of
Peace and organized the Junior
Choir there. "He has served his
church as vestryman and president |
of the Men's Club. *
For a time he coached a Little |
League team and served on the com- |
mittee of Cub Pack 233. |
He and his wife the former, |
Thelma Weldin, have two boys,
Richard, 15, a sophomore at West- |
moreland and David, 9, in Fourth |
Grade at Shayertown. |
Vials a parent” Ed says, ‘“I.whole- |
heartedly support the present school |
administration in its evident desire |
to continually improve our school!
system. I am mot backed by any |
faction of the Republican Party, nor
do I solicit any such support, I do
solicit the voter who believes as I
do in policies which are founded on
intelligent consideration and which
are accomplished in an unbiased
manner.”
Ed is a member of Parkside Lodge
217 F. & ‘A. M. in Camden and is a |
member of Caldwell Consistory and
Irem Temple.
Among. his hobbies music leads
the list and he plays the organ well.
Next in order are bowling, golf and
fishing. But music is his first love.
It was through music that he met
his wife. They both went to the
same school and played in the same
High School orchestra.
She, by ‘the way, is chairman of |
this year’s Prince of Peace Antiques
Show Committee and was secretary
for two years of Shavertown PTA.
New Barber Shop
A new barber shop will open
shortly in the former Phillips Cam-
era Shop on Main street, Dallas. The
shop will be operated by a former
Oklahoman, a Mr. Perkins now
living in Edwardsville. |
Grass Fire Extinguished
A grass fire at 185 Huntsville
Road was speedily extinguished
Wednesday afternoon. Ten volun-
teers from Dr. Henry Laing Fire
Company turned out, Jim Wertman
driving the truck.
Pledged At Muhlenberg
Jack Eck, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Eck, Shavertown, has been
pledged to Alpha Iota Chapter of
Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity |
at Muhlenberg College.
Jack is a graduate of Westmore-
land High School, Class of 1960.
When the new high school cafe-
teria is opened this year food for all
students ‘in the other buildings will
be prepared there and transported to
the other buildings in Tri-Veyor
Serving Units.
It was to learn more about the
transportation and serving of food
that the Directors visited the ex-
hibit in Philadelphia.
These stainless steel units will
hold the meals and trays for the
students. They will be hooked up |
electrically as soon as they arrive at |
the serving area and will keep the |
food hot for thirty minutes. When |
opened provide a complete serving |
counter. |
| ough, Kingston and Dallas Town-
| ships.
| Pioneer avenue areas would cost an
| $6.50 per foot, plus $100 connection |
| fee, but the rental would be reduced |
MRS. THOMAS VERNON
Born in Bellefonte, the home town
of three famous Pennsylvanians,
Governors Curtin, Beaver and Hast-
ings, Mrs. Thomas Vernon is the
only woman seeking election as a
director-at-large to the all-male
Dallas School Board:
She believes the schools should
be divorced from all politics, and is
a candidate on the Republican ticket
only because it is the party of her
choice. She is not backed by any
faction of that Party.
Married the day she graduated
from Carnegie Institute of Tech-
nology where she had won the
Carnegie Womans’ Association
Scholarship during her Senior year
for outstanding achievement, Mrs.
Vernon had lived in many states and
many places before moving to
Trucksville ‘Gardens some years ago.
Her husband, an engineer in the
Gas Division of Pennsylvania Gas &
Water Company, was formerly an
engineer with Trans-Penn Transit
Corporation. They lived in South
Carolina, (California, Kansas, Brad-
ford, and Clarks Green.
In Pittsburgh she did group work
at Soho Community Center and also
did case work for the Department of
Public Assistance. In Los Angeles
she was in the Accounting Depart-
ment of Hardware Mutual Life In-
surance Company and in Wichita
she was in the Accounting Depart-
ment for Boeing Aircraft Company.
Along the way Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon found time to have three
children, Tommy 11; Kitty 7 and
David, 5, and another important
member of the household, Gunner,
a German Shorthaired Pointer that
last year produced eight beautiful
puppies for the Library Auction.
Mrs. Vernon is a member of the
Citizens Committee for Better
Schools, President of Trucksville
PTA and a member of Dallas Bor-
ough and Shavertown PTAs. As the
representative of Back Mountain
PTA Council, she attends all school
board ‘meetings.
Mrs. Vernon believes that women
have so much at stake, and often
have a different point of view from
the men, that they should therefore, |
be represented on the Board.
She is neither a ‘pro’ nor a ‘‘con”
as far as. spending is concerned.
“Bach' question,” she believes
“should ‘be weighed individually and
the ‘aim should be for the good of
the. schools.”
She: is ‘a member of Trucksville
Methodist Church. ‘Her hobbies. are
rearing children, raising dogs when
she has time; building model air-
planes and flying them, and believe
it or not—fishing.
Sewer Costs In
-A Nutshell
Two alternative sewage treatment
plans for the Back Mountain region
have been presented by Roy Weston
Associates to officials of Dallas Bor-
The one covering Dallas Borough
only and a small part of Dallas
Township in the Fernbrook and:
estimated $2,275,000 the . other
covering most of the Toby’s Creek
drainage area including Dallas Bor-
ough, parts of Dallas Township and
Kingston Township would cost an
estimated $4,400,000.
In a nutshell the costs of con- |
struction would be born by a Sew- |
| age Authority through the sales of |
| bonds to be paid off over a period |
Twelve Dallas Schoolmen Visit
Philadelphia Equipment Exhibit
of years. |
But as tentatively set up this is
what it would cost the property
owner in Dallas Borough with a
100-foot frontage to be hooked up
to that sewage system: $650 for the
line in front of his property; $100 |
connection charge and an annual |
rental fee of $75. Total for the first
year $825.
After the first year the annual
rental fee would remain at $75. and
there would be no other charges.
Under the larger system including
Kingston Township, the assessment
for front footage would be the same
to $68 per year. |
Kingston Township, Dallas Town-
ship and Dallas Borough users with
100 foot lots would then pay $818.
during the first year instead of |
$825. {
VOL. 73, NO. 13, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961
Candidates For Director - At- Lar
WELTON G. FARRAR
The only candidate on the Demo-
cratic Ticket for Director-at-large
and, therefore, a sure bet to be a
candidate in the General Election
this fall is Welton G. Farrar, Wilkes
College Professor of Economics and
Business Administration, and a resi-
dent of Maplewood Avenue, Dallas.
A native of Haverhill, Mass, Mr.
Farrar graduated from Groveland
High School in 1940 and after two
years of college work at Northeast-
ern in Boston, entered the United
States Navy.
After his discharge in 1945, he
completed his college work and
obtained his Master's Degree at Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. He is now
working on his Doctorate at Harvard
University. Mr, Farrar stood first
in his class in High School and at
Penn.
Married to the former Esther
Shoulson in 1945, the couple has four
children: Penny, 14; Stephen, 13;
Linda, 11; and Edward, 2.
Since moving to the Back Moun-
tain area, first to Trucksville for six
years and then to Dallas two and a
half years ago, the Farrars have both
been interested in PTA work.
Mr. Farrar believes Dallas Schools
should do everything .possible to
attract the very best faculty to be
found in the country. He is ex-
tremely interested in curriculum
construction, a phase of work in
which he believes he could make his
greatest contribution as a school
board member.
He_is-a<member of dheiAmepican
Assoliation of Universi yy Profesor:
the American Economics Association
and is an inactive member of Rotary
Club, having had to ask for that
status when he began teaching eve-
ning classes in the American Insti-
tute of Banking and the American
Savings & Loan Institute (North-
eastern Pennsylvania Chapter).
His hobbies are bridge and. golf.
He is coach of the Wilkes College
Golf team, but says that he has |
never been able to beat one of his
boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Farrar are members
of Dallas Methodist Church.
Bhoard US Carrier
Norfolk . (FHTNC) -— Charles J.
Natitus, seaman, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles J. Natitus of Harris
Hill Road; Trucksville, is serving
aboard the anti-submarine warfare
support aircraft carrier USS Valley
Forge operating out of Norfolk, Va.
The Valley Forge entered the
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, March 6, for
a three-month overhaul period.
It Pays To Advertise
A ministerial friend down in
Trucksville is sold solid on Dallas
Post advertising. Says he’s bought
about $1,000 worth of kitchen equip-
ment for a fourth of that amount.
His last
matic dishwasher. Says his wife
dives for the classified section the
| instant the paper is delivered, and |
i he’s thinking, in self defense, of | the judge, answering to a charge of
cancelling his subscription.
Proclaims Monday
investment was an auto- |
Teen-Age Toughs
Steal Fire-Arms,
Resist Arrest
Threaten Women
With Stolen Pistol
When Apprehended
“Come quick, Mom, there's a lot
of guns up in the cemetery, and a
big boy running away,” panted Ray-
mond Cross as he burst into his
home on Woodlawn Drive Sunday
afternoon at 2.
Raymond, 8, ran back up the
street to Woodlawn Cemetery, Mrs.
Victor Cross close upon his heels.
There were the guns, a 38 calibre
pistol, and two shotguns, 22 and 12
calibre, lying on the ground along
with spilled boxes of ammunition,
and a black leather jacket. Richard
Cross, 11, gave a playmate, Wayne
Nichols, a push. “Go on, get the
chief, quick, I'll stay here with
Mom.”
Chief Russell Honeywell, dressed
for his afternoon out, and stopping
for a moment at the Dallas Borough
Building with his wife, looked
through the window and saw that
here was a boy in a hurry.
Wayne shouted, - “Come on, I'll
show you a lot of guns up in the
cemetery.”
Russ said afterwards, “Boy, was it
lucky I didn’t have a gun. I'd have
pulled it on that tough for sure,
when he started waving his gun
around and pointing it at my wife.”
Standing by the Honeywell mauso-
leum inspecting the cache of guns
hidden under the black leather
jacket, Russ looked up to see two
boys, sixteen and seventeen, appear-
ing from nowhere, scrambling up
the bank to reclaim their loot.
One of the boys pulled a gun on
Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Honeywell.
Russ, unarmed, but with experi-
ence in the Marine Corps, worked a
fast bluff. Reaching into his pocket
and balling his fist, he roared, “You
pull that trigger and I'll blow the
top of your head off. I've got you
covered.”
The youth dropped the gun as
local kids scattered and the women
ran.
Vic Cross, a former member of the
Borough police force, ran up, and
under Russ’s direction, handcuffed
the outlaws. :
“1 was paralyzed with fright,”
said Mrs. Cross a little later, ‘those
two tough boys with their long
greasy hair, one of them pointing
fh #(k, and Raymond started ¢{o-4un
i towayd me, and who knows what
could, have happened?”
|Al Shaffer, assistant chief, joined
the group and helped with the in-
vestigation. Leonard Harvey phoned
for State Police.
Honeywell and Shaffer took the
subdued Wilkes-Barre youths to
Luzerne County Prison, where they
| await action by Juvenile Court.
The boys said at first that they
| had been camping at the Lake. They
| changed their story. They had been
| visiting an aunt. It was her cottage
| that they had used over the week-
| end.
Did the aunt have firearms in the
| house ?
{ Well, no. They couldnt quite
remember how they happened to
have those guns, No they didn't
‘have a license to carry firearms.
| How about the bottle of gun
| powder ?
| Well, they just sorta picked that
| up somewhere.
| Investigation "showed that the
{ boys had broken into the Kane and
{ Miller cottages on Carpenter Road,
lat the Lehman Township end of
| Harveys Lake. They had taken from
| the Miller cottage, not only the guns
| and ammunition, but a 21-inch tele-
| vision set which they enjoyed Sat-
{urday night at the Kane cottage
| and which they abandoned when
| they left.
They denied using a car, but Car-
{ penter Road is a long way from
| Woodlawn Cemetery in Dallas.
Early in April they will tell it to
| burglary.
As Industry Day
Governor David L. Lawrence affixed his signature to a procla-
mation designating Monday, May 1, as “Industry Day” in Pennsyl-
vania.
Witnessing the signature were, front row, left to right, A. J.
Sordoni Jr., Dallas, President of
the State Chamber of Commerce;
Governor Lawrence, and H. Thomas Hollowell, Jr., President of Stand-
ard Pressed Steel Company, and regional Vice President of the Na-
tional Association of Manufactures;
Pennsylcania Department of Commerce; John N. Seeton, Secretary
Back Row, left to right, J. Eric Jones, Deputy Secretary of the
of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, and Richard Swank,
Secretary of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association,
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