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Dallas Directors
Adopt Budget Of
Over Million
Accept Calendar
4 In Line With Other
“® Luzerne Co. Schools
| Dallas School directors Tuesday
! night authorized a budget of over
a million dollars, adopted a school
calendar in line with the majority of
schools in the Luzerne County sys-
tem, accepted the applications of
eleven new teachers, and heard a
report on progress of the new senior
“high school building.
Earl Phillips presented the budget,
calling for estimated receipts and ex-
penditure of $1,087,250.
Total taxes expected amount to
$548,293. Reimbursement from the
State, $523,652; tuition, $4,700;
rentals, $2,500; reimbursement on
land site from the Building Author-
ity, $3,000. Miscellaneous, refunds,
sale of supplies, earnings in Govern-
ment bonds, bringing the total to
$1,087,250.
| Current expenses for year 1961,
1962, estimated at $938, 095; capital
outlay including debt service, $149,-
155. ,
The budget may be inspected.
Calendar
Dr. Robert A. Mellman's report
“included a calendar of 188 days,
‘starting September 5 with a teachers
i meeting, ending June 15, 1962.
The 188 days, adopted with only
two exceptions by Luzerne County
Schools, allows leeway for blizzards
A and other unavoidable interruptions |
‘of school sessions. First day of deer
hunting season, December 4, and
i Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, will
be holidays, in addition to Blooms-
burg Fair day, September 29. Normal
y holidays, Thanksgiving and Memorial
j Day, will be observed. Christmas
vacation will start December 22,
Easter vacation April 19.
! Personnel
Mrs. Barbara Simms resigned as
secretary to Dallas Junior High
School principal John Rosser, when
she and her husband, William,
adopted an infant. Mrs. Verna Wis-
mer, employed on a substitute basis
i for the past few weeks, was elected
it to. fill the vacancy, the employment
i retroactive to April 3.
substitutes Bi
™ teachers as were:
Elizabeth VanFossen, Kingston; Mrs. |
v ay Ewin Lichtig, Wilkes-Barre; Mrs.
# Bina Brominski, Swoyerville; Mrs.
| Elizabeth Holvey, Dallas.
‘Additional cafeteria substitutes:
Mrs. Joseph Allen, Shavertown; Mrs.
Martha Barry, Dallas; Mrs. Clara
Paltrineri, Shavertown; Mrs. Anna
M. Covert, Shavertown.
Clerk-typist, Mrs. Helen Williams,
Dallas RD 2.
Clerk-secretary, Mrs. Robert O.
Hale, Dallas; Mrs. Mildred Williams,
Trucksville.
| Custodian, John Estock, Dallas
\ Township; and Franklin Hemenway,
h Shavertown RD 5.
New teachers include Emma
3 Engler, Trucksville; Ruth Fossedal,
i Williamsport; Arthur D. Hontz,
i Shickshinny; Alan D. Husband, King-
ston; Leonard Kozick, Dallas RD 3;
Lena Misson Moore, Harveys Lake;
| Louis Joseph Palermo, Wilkes-Barre;
i ay William E. Price, North Lake; Gerald
J. Stinson, Wilkes-Barre; Judith A.
Richards, Wyoming RD 3; Mrs.
: Manta Steele, Trucksville.
i : Resignation of Anthony Roan was
Maccepted. Mr. Roan! expects to teach |
at Great Neck Long Island.
William A. Austin, elementary
supervisor, delegate from Luzerne
County, will take part in a Public
1} Instruction Conservation Workshop
at Indiantown Gap April 19, 20 and
21.
Hrs. | Harriet Stahl, Mrs.
Gensel, Mrs. Verna Wismer, and Mrs.
Betty Lamoreaux will attend the
Sixth Annual Secretaries Conference
at Pennsylvania State April 27 to
29. ‘Robert Dolbear was authorized
| to attend Governor's Traffic Safety |
Conference May 3; Lester Lewis and
Alfred M. Camp, Open House for
Band Directors at Delaware Water
| Gap on Saturday; W. Frank Trimble,
. monn F. Rosser ,and George McCut-
* cheon, High Schoo] Conference April
f 13 in Allentown; Superintendent
| Mellman, Education Conference in
Harrisburg, serving on a committee
) of four to review guides on reading.
leave of absence for restoration of
impaired health. Mrs. Lamoreaux
teaches first grade at Dallas Town-
stituting.
George Dombeck, working toward
his Master's, will no longer coach
wrestling.
Summer Recreation
Teaching in the summer recrea-
tion program during July and
August will be Edward A. Brominski |
and Joyce Sweppenheiser at Dallas |
Township; Robert Dolbear
| ville.
The New Building
Betty |
Thelma Lamoreaux was granted |
ship, Mrs. Wesley Davies is sub- |
Borough; Charles James at Dallas |
and |
Nancy Hess at Shavertown; Gary |
Dietz and Anne Dorrance at Trucks- |
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Two Dallas students attending
West Side Central Catholic High
School, took top honors at Kings
College at the Wyoming Valley Re-
gional Fair.
John Young, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Jay Young, Dallas, was named grand
champion.
Charlene Maker, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Vincent Maker, New Goss
| Manor, took the Grolier Society
award, ten volumes of science pub-
lished by the Book of Knowledge.
John and Charlene were invited
i
Local Students Take Honors At
Kings College Science Fair
out the nature of secretions given
off by large tadpoles, which kills
the young tadpoles. :
subject of a Dallas Post article some
Charlene’s exhibit, already the
weeks ago, was ‘Comparative Study
of Oxygen given off in Photosynthe-
sis” took top place in the junior
division. Charlene is a freshman. |
As grand champion, John will have
an all-expense-paid trip to the Inter-
national Science Fair in Kansas
City, Missouri, next month,
Kings College Science Fair, fran-
Science Fair at Hershey April 28
and 29.
John’s exhibit, called ‘The Fatal
Secretion,” was an attempt to find
More than 300 members of the
| ty will join in the centennial of the
Luzerne County Medical Society |
which will be marked by a week- |
long observance beginning April 24
and ending with a dinner-dance
April 29 at Irem Temple Country
Club. I
in the United States, The Luzerne
| County unit also has one of the
| largest representations for a county
| this size. There are approximately
| 325 medical doctors actively parti- |
| cipating in the profession with about
25 retired.
Dr. Herman Fischer, Jr., general
| chairman of the Medical Society’s
| centennial program, said today that
the many highlights will include
“open houses” at the Medical So-
ciety Building on South Franklin
Street. ©
to enter their exhibits in the State
One of the oldest medical societies |
chised by the National Science. Fair,
is co-sponsored by Wyoming Valley
Women’s Auxiliary to the Luzerne
County Medical Society.
Luzerne County Medical Society
Will Observe 100th Anniversary
“The general public is not aware
available to doctors and students
at the Medical Society and we hope
to acquaint them with the valuable
service rendered to all through this
facility,” he said.
He named Dr_ A. L. Lucchi, chair-
on arrangements with Mrs. C. H.
Butler, women’s auxiliary; Dr. E. J.
Kielar, Dr. A C_ Adonizio, and Dr.
V. J. Kennedy assisting. ¢
Dr. L. T Buckman, chairman of the
considerable time
history of the society, reported that
the society was founded in April,
1861, although considerable in-
terest in the formation of the or-
ganization had been displayed for
more than a year previously.
reviewing the
Police Seek Hit
And Run Driver
Edward Stofko's Car
Goes Over Embankment
State and Lehman Police have
early Saturday morning on the Leh-
man-Idetown Road and directly into
the path of a 1958 Ford driven by
on Route 115.
the road and over an embankment,
rolling over twice before it landed
in a small stream opposite the saw
mill.
Stofko and his companion, Jerry
Smith of Harveys Lake, received
| a complete loss.
| :
The driver of the other car, pre-
| sumed to be a black Chevrolet sta-
tion wagon, stopped momentarily,
| spoke to the driver of another car
that had been following Stofko, and
been unable. to locate a hit and run !
added tothe dist of certificated@adriver who ran through a stop sign |
Edward Stotko, coming from Lehman |
Stofko’s machine was forced off |
bruises and brush burns but were
| otherwise uninjured. The car was |
Spring Brings
Seasonal Rash
Of B. B. Guns
Malicious Mischief
Rampant In Dallas
As Weather Warms
Chief Russell Honeywell reports
several cases of malicious mischief
| during the past week in Dallas.
B. B. gun bullets were found im-
bedded in two expensive glass win-
dows at Gate of Heaven School,
fired from the playground area up-
wards to the second floor. Rev!
Francis Kane says the windows were
worth $55 apiece.
a brand new Dodge car, just de-
livered to L. L. Richardson’s agency.
The car was parked in the rear
April 6.
Rickie Cross, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Victor Cross, got shot in the thumb
other driver could go for assistance.
Without bothering to investigate
further or to see whether the boys
were badly injured or lying dead
trapped in their car, the hit and
run driver drove from the scene of
the accident.
Anyone having any information of
a black Chevrolet station wagon or
similar model with its right side
dented should get in touch with
Police Chief Joseph Ide or State
Police.
Stofko, 'a Junior at Wilkes College,
was taken to his home at Lehman
Heights by Tony Bonomo of Crown
Imperial Bowling Lanes. Because of
his injuries Stofko was unable to
| attend classes on Monday.
He's eighty-nine years old, but he
went loping out of the Dallas Post
like a man on the sunny side of
forty Tuesday afternoon. Maybe he’s
a mite deaf, too, but what's a little
deafness ?
Charles Sutton, Lehman-Outlet
| Road, living with his wife, Eugenia,
[in a house he built himself next
| door to his son; Bert, fifteen years
| ago, dropped by to say that he's
| found a sample copy of the Dallas
| Post in his mailbox, but what had
| happened to his Bighty-Plus Club
subscription? He hadn't seen a
| paper for some weeks.
Then he settled down for a little
| talk, and his mind reverted to the
days when he and his wife used to
spend the winter in Florida. Thir-
| teen winters they lived there, near
Tampa, first in a tent, then in a
the sewage disposal plant. School
| masonry is about completed.
| With the new building the central
| location for distribution of food, Mr.
Reports on the new senior high | Austin is working out a plan for
school building were that plastering | systematic transfer of hot meals
is progressing rapidly, and that | and plastic trays, in a specially de-
electricians are following other | signed truck, the whole operation
workmen in making installations.
Excavation has been completed for | 11 and 2. - Gin
| to take only the three hours between
was asked to stay there until the |
Charles Sutton, Approaching 90
Where's My Dallas Post? Inquires
with a B. B. gun, B. B. guns, states
| Chief Honeywell, are absolutely out-
| lawed in Dallas Borough.
Over the weekend, after con-
| struction on the new A&P store
| had stopped Friday night, some-
| body mounted a tall ladder, entered
| the second floor, and stole a gun
| used for forcing metal into concrete,
| also 1,000 feet of wire.
| To cap the climax was theft of
| a large pet rabbit from the John
| Houser home on Lehman Avenue, |
| a job requiring wire cutters and a
| knowledge that Mrs. Houser would
| be in town for a few hours. The
| rabbit was the pet of a three-year |
| old child who is allergic to dogs and
| cats.
| only pet the child can have is a
| rabbit.
house Mr. Sutton built himself. Nice
down there, he said, right next door
to paradise the first two winters, but
the third winter éverything froze up,
and the lovely flowers turned brown.
Fifteen years ago, the Suttons
between Florida and Lehman was
becoming wearisome,
Mr. Sutton is a carpenter, starting
that trade when eighteen years old.
He was educated at the Outlet
school, where he remembers Ellie
Neyhart as a strict disciplinarian.
He and his ' wife, the former
Eugenia Dymond, will celebrate their
67th wedding anniversary Novem-
ber 4.
They are not quite as active as
they used to be. They find it much
easier tc open a can of milk than to
milk a cow, but annually they plant
a garden. The ancestral acreage has
been partially divided up into plots,
and some. time ago Mr. Sutton con-
structed seven homes on land where
cattle once roamed.
Mr. Sutton gave it as his con-
one of the worst he could remember,
“but isn’t it nice outdoors now?
Hear that cardinal ?”
* | Lou Letko, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
man of the open house committee |
archives committee, who has spent |
A wheel and tire were stolen from |
Suffering from asthma, the !
~ | Church, where
decided that driving back and forth |
sidered opinion that this winter was |
: children,
WE
| Charles Gosart of Gosart’s Market |
| made two youngsters hearts = beat |
| faster when he presented them with !
| these two forty-eight inch plush rab-
| bits. Never were rabbits pulled out
| of a hat quicker than when Jimmy '
| Knecht, son of Mr. and Mrs. James |
| Knetch, Harveys Lake; and Sandy
Billy: McCann, varsity basketball
coach at the University of Virginia,
will be the featured speaker at the
| communion® breakfast of Prince of
| Peace Men's Club, ‘Sunday morning.
Billy was a three sport star at the
' University playing football, basket-
ball, and baseball. Leaving the Uni-
| versity he became head coach of
| basketball at Hampden-Sydney Col-
lege.
‘While there he developed many
outstanding One of these
. players was Comp Shelton, the very
successful basketball coach at Har-
grave Military Academy, who this
| season won the Virginia Military
| Schools League and post-season
tournament championship.
stars.
Harry Lefko, Luzerne Avenue, Dal-
las, received these rabbits just at
Eastertime.
All they had to do was write their
names on one of Charlie’s salesslips
then watch for the right number and
the right rabbit to come out of the
hat.
Virginia Basketball Coach
medical profession in Luzerne Coun- of the vast storehouse of knowledge
‘Will Speak At Men’
s Club
Billy then accepted the head
coaching position at Washington and
Lee University, Lexington, Va. The
most outstanding player coached
there, was Dom Flora an All-Amer-
ican. When the post at the Univer-
sity of Virginia became available,
McCann immediately accepted the
call from his Alma Mater. “Coaching
in the tough Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence is tops,” he says.
Billy also heads Camp Wahoo at
Miller School, Va. This basketball
camp for boys features other such
well known coaches Weenie
Miller . of VMI, Pres Maravich
of Clemson and Bones McKinney of
Wake Forest. While in the area he
will be the guest of Don Clark.
as
Plant Sweet Peas
Mrs. Joseph Schooley planted her
sweet peas last week Mrs. Schooley,
adept through years of experience,
says that the green thumb idea is |
an exploded myth. Owners of green
thumbs are simply people who en-
joy gardening, who like to dig in
the dirt, and who are willing to take,
all the pains necessary to raise
flowers and vegetables. aa :
She plants her sweet peas in
eight-inch trenches, and instead of
covering them with cold wet earth,
| she blankets them with soft fine
| soil from the greenhouse, sifting it
| with her fingers, and repeating the
| covering again. and again as the
| plants grow, until the trench is
. level with the earth, and the sweet
peas have strong deep roots.
Last year she had such a magni-
ficent crop of sweet peas that she
couldn’t keep up with the picking,
and finally uproted some of the
plantshs
It 2. to buy good hybrid seeds,
she says. They are more expensive
than the ordinary packaged sweet
| peas, but their yield is phenomenal.
Frances Pike Schooley
To Be Buried Friday
Sefvices for Mrs. Frances Pike
Schooley will be conducted tomor-
row afternoon by Rev. John Gordon,
pastor of = Alderson-Noxen Metho-
dist Church, from the Nulton Fu-
neral Home in Beaumont. Friends
may call this evening. Burial will
be in Orcutt Cemetery. :
Mrs. Schooley, 83, paying a visit
to her daughter; Martha Snyder,
| since early fall, died early Tuesday
morning in a Niles, Michigan, hos-
pital. Four years ago she suffered
| a stroke from which she partially
recovered, but was confined to a
wheel chair. Illness cancelled out
| her activities at Noxen Methodist
she, had been a!
staunch supporter of its work, and |
had taught for years in the Sunday
| School. ;
| Mrs. Schooley was an authority
| on birds and wild flowers. Resi-
| dents of Noxen, baffled by a ques-
| tion of nature, consulted her. She,
| loved company, and was an excel-
| lent listener. Up until the later
stages of her illness, she wrote to
her friends. Confinement. to her
wheel chair deprived her of one
| of her keenest delights, raising the
| flowers which made her garden gay.
|
|
|" Her parents were Jesse and Leila
Dimmick Pike of Beaumont. When !
they died when she was a young
girl, Frances lived with her grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Dim-
mick. Oldsters remember her as
tall and erect, and with short hair
in the day before short hair was the
norm. |
She and her husband, Corey, well |
along in the eighties, celebrated |
their sixty-sixth wedding. anniver-
sary last August 22.
She leaves her husband; these
children: Mrs. Edward Williams, |
Fred, Walter and Mrs. Michael Tra-
ver, wife of the Noxen constable,
all of Noxen; Harvey, Danville;
Elvin, Danielson, Conn.; Mrs. Sny-
der, Niles, Michigan; twenty grand- |
children and fourteen great-grand-
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Candidates For
School Board To
Outline Stand
Will Appear Before
Citizens Committee
For Better Schools
Candidates for School-Director-at-
Large will outline their views and
qualifications at a meeting of Citi-
zens Committee for Better Schools
next Wednesday night in Dallas
Borough School.
William Clewell, Welton Farrar,
Edward Ratcliffe, and Mrs. Thomas
Vernon will answer these questions,
drawn up by the committee:
What is a school board member
for ?
Why do you want to be a school
board member ? :
‘What changes would you like to
see made in the school district, ar
what do you think most needs to be
accomplished ? :
Facing a major decision, which
would come first, education or
taxes, and why ?
In advance of the appearance of
candidates, an important report on
the Study Committee on Recreation
will take the form of a panel, with
members John Zerbe, Robert Addi-
son and Mrs. Thomas Vernon led
by chairman A. DeWitt Smith. The
discussion will take into considera-
tion existing facilities and projected
ideas.
President Richard Demmy an-
ndunces the meeting for 8:30. Candi-
dates will appear at around 10 p. m.
Rev. Yost To Speak
To Book Club Monday
"Rev. Robert D. Yost, pastor of
Shavertown Methodist Church, will
show slides and give a talk on. his
summer tour of Europe Monday
afternoon at 2 to members of the
Book (Club, meeting at Back Moun-
tain Library Annex.
Mrs. Herman Thomas will preside,
and Mrs. Thomas Graham and Mrs.
| Paul Gross will head the hostess
committee.
Wet Snow Snaps Utility
Lines Monday Morning
Heavy, wet snow Sunday night |
and early Monday morning, put rural
power lines out of commission. Lake-
Lehman schools dismissed at 11 a.m.,
school buses taking students home
because of lack of heat and water.
Power was not restored for some
hours. Sweet Valley was without
telephone service all day. Many
tree limbs broke under the weight.
Divorce Granted
Mrs. Shirley Marie Denmon,
Loyalville, received papers. from her:
attorney William Valentine, April 10,
that Judge Lewis had granted her
decree of divorce from Wayne!
Denmon.
Mrs. Denmon has been making |
her home for the past six months
with ther parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Russell E. Scott in Loyalville. She
and her son, Daniel, expect to remain
there permanently.
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Two Delighted Youngsters
Local Man Owns |
VOL. 73, NO. 15,
Historic Civil War
Drum Carried By 6th Massachusetts
These were eventful days in the
On April 19, 1861 the Sixth Massa-
chusetts Infantry was the first
armed regiment to reach Washing-
ton, D. C. after Lincoln's call for
75,000 volunteers for three months
service following the fall of Fort,
Sumter.
One of the drums carried by this |
famous regiment on its way through
stoned by rioting secessionists is the
cherished *possession of Raymon
Hedden, former Dallas Couneilman.
The beautifully preserved instru-
ment, colorfully decorated with a
screaming ‘American Eagle, is prob-
ably one of the most wvaluable
antiques coming out of the Civil
War.
Written across the sheepskin
drumhead in ink in the bold hand
of a soldier of 100 years ago are
these words: ‘Carried through the
streets of Baltimore during the riots
by Joseph Wall, 6th Massachusetts.
Later enlisted at Harrisburg for
three years.”
Mr. Hedden obtained the historic
drum some years ago from a Mr.
Merrell at LaPlume. For years
after the war it was in the possession
of Major Bardwell of Tunkhannock
who gave it to his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Kram, of Towanda with the
admonition = that it should never
leave the family. [Later it went to
his granddaughter, Gertrude Kiam
Jennings, of Tunkhannock who re-
fused many offers for it during her
lifetime. She had no children and
after her death it was sold by her
husband, Sterling Jennings.
The value of the drum comes from
the incident in which the 6th Massa-
chusetts participated. As the soldiers
alighted from their train at Calvert
Station and prepared to march
across Baltimore to entrain at the
B & O Station for Washington, they
were warned by their Col. Edward F.
Jones that mobs of Southern sym-
pathizers might throw bricks and
stones at them but they were not
to retaliate. As the mobs grew
bigger and the squads moved for-
ward at the ‘“‘double quick” many of
the soldiers were injured. The
Mayor of Baltimore Hon. George
William Brown, marched beside the
colonel at the head of the troops in
an attempt to quiet the mob, but
with little success. The mob pressed
closer, a secessionist wrested a gun
from a soldier firing into the troop
killing a young soldier. It was
then every man for himself and
sevefal secessionists were killed in
the sporadic firing that followed.
' A Pennsylvania regiment, the 28th
of Philadelphia, which had arrived
in Baltimore at the same time, but
which was unarmed, was ordered to
remain on the cars and the train
returned to Philadelphia without
unloading. The 6th proceeded to
‘Washington.
Legion To Honor |
|
Past Commanders
Hon. Fred Shupnick
|
Will Be Speaker
Daddow-Isaacs Post, American
Legion, will meet next Friday night |
at 8. |
The Auxiliary, Emma Henning |
president, will join in a program to
honor Past Post Commanders.
Commander William O'Brien has
appointed this committee: ]
Tom Reese, chairman; Ed Buck-
ley, Dick Staub, program; Tom
Kane, Dick Fuller, refreshments;
Dan’ Gula, Len Harvey, Les Fink
and James Davenport, arrange-
mei te. 3 §
The Post has had the following
twenty-one Commanders since it was
organized in 1935: Art Brown,
Noxen; Paul Shaver, Dallas; John
Thomas, unknown; Brooke Arnold,
California; Charles Stookey, Dallas;
Don Grose, Florida; Dave Jenkins,
Florida; John Nash, Philadelphia;
Primo Berrettini, Dallas; Robert
Williams, = Connecticut; Harold La- |
Bar, Shavertown; Anthony Monast,
deceased; Lewis Reese, Dallas; Jo-
seph Kravetz, Dallas; Fred Cock- !
ayne, unknown; Frank Mathers 3rd, |
Trucksville; Tom Reese, Dallas, and |
William Moran, Hudson.
Past Post Commander of Luzerne
Post 525, Past District Commender |
and a member of the State House |
of Representatives, Fred Shupnick,
will be the speaker for the evening.
The local Legion, one of the most
active Posts in the State, has in- |
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creased its membership for the fifth ;
year and stands at an all time high
of 326 veterans.
Trucksville PTA
Hears Counselors
A
thought provoking program
was presented Monday evening at |
Trucksville Elementary School
P.T'A., Miss Patricia Fox and George
McCutchen told of the guidance pro-
gram for elementary grades, various
tests that are given to each child,
and the preparation needed for a
child in the transition from elemen-
tary- sehool to the junior high level.
Mrs. Thomas Vernon, president,
announced that the program for the
year has been given a rating of
“EXCELLENT” by the State Evalu-
ating Committee. The program is
first judged by the program chair-
man of the Back Mountain Coun-
cil of P.T.A,, then rated by the state
committee.
Mrs. Vernon explained current
legislation pending in Harrisburg,
and urged members of the P.T.A., to
study the ' legislation, then write |
Senator Harold E. Flack or Repre-
sentative Fred B. Shupnik.
Names submitted by the Execu-
tive Board for the nominating com-
mittee were Mrs. Fred Dingle, chair-
man; Mrs. Walter Phillips and Wal-
ter Prokopchak. :
The attendance award of $3 was
won by Miss Marian Young’s fourth
grade class. Refreshments were
served - following the meeting, by |
mothers of Mrs. McGuire's second
grade.
The next meeting, May 1, will be
a recognition tea for teachers.
Philharmonic Concert
Mrs. Prentice Lacy, chairman of |
the Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chil- |
dren’s Concert, sponsored by the!
Junior League, has anounced that
tickets, will go on sale next week. |
The concert will take place in the |
Irem Temple April 29 at 10:30. Bus
transportation has been arranged |
for Dallas boys and girls.
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Elected Treasurer
FRANK PAVLICK
Frank Pavlick, Dallas, R. D. 2,
recently was elected treasurer of
Greater Wilkes-Barre Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce. ;
Pavlick, a graduate of Dallas Bor-
ough High School; attended Millers-
ville State College. He is a salesman
with Prentice-Hall, Inc.,and married
to the. former, Theresa Chukinas, also
‘of Dallas. The Pavlick’s have two
children, Stephen Michael, 2, and
Karen Ann, 3 months. .
Pavlick joined the Greater Wilkes-
Barre Jaycees in February, 1960 and |
has actively participated on numer-
ous projects, including: chairman of
| Monte [Carlo Night; chairman of the
Car Wash; chairman “Speak-Up Jay-
cee Contest;” and a committee mem-
ber of the Orphans’ Shopping Tour.
During last year’s administration, he
served as Program Chairman for the
‘Chapter.
His civic affiliations include:
Manager, Teeners' Baseball League
of the Lehman Area; member of
| American Legion Post No. 672, serv-
ing as Vice Commander several
years ago; active in United Fund
‘Work; and recently was a member
of the Speakers” Bureau for the 1961
Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial
Fund Campaign.
Elected president of the Greater
Wilkes-Barre Jaycees is Leonard J.
Mulcahy of Wilkes-Barre. Elected
to serve as Executive Vice-President
is John J. Dougherty of Forty Fort
and Secretary, William A. Zdance-
wicz of Edwardsville
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1961
SignLeaseFor
New Postoftice
In Shavertown
Wyoming National
Leases Building For i
$7,000 Annual Rental : %
After many weeks of negotiations,
announcement was made this week
that the Postoffice Department has
signed a contract for new quarters -
in Shavertown in the former Acme
Market Building next door to Back
‘Mountain Lumber and Coal Com-
pany.
The announcement was made by
Congressman Daniel J. Flood on in-
formation received from Postmaster
General J. Edward Day.
The building is owned by Ken-
more Company, a subsidery of Wyo-
ming National Bank of Wilkes~
Barre.
The 75x80 foot one story structure
has 6,000 square feet of floor space,
3,875 of which will be used for post-
office purposes and the remaining
2,125 square feet will be used for
new offices for Wyoming National
Bank’s Shavertown Branch. pl
The building will be remodeled
to carry out the Postoffice Depart~
ment’s objective of more efficient
postal service and of improved work=-
ing conditions for its employees.
The present quarters in the build-
ing on Center Street are cramped
and employees have been working
under the most adverse conditions
since the Trucksville office was
consolidated with the Shavertown
office.
| Postoffice Real Estate Officer
| Joe Kenyon of the Philadelphia
| Postal Headquarters surveyed sev-
| eral locations'in Shavertown before
the Department advertised for bids,
| only two of which were considered.
| One was the bid of Raymon Hedden
| for the former Shaver Theatre
| Building on which he had an option
| and the other was for the old Acme
| Building owned by Wyoming Na-
tional Bank. Original bids were
| $10,500 per year for ten years for
| the former Shaver Theatre and
| $9,000 for the Acme Building. Both -
| were considered too high and, re-
jected with an opportunity present s
ed for both parties to rebid. This
the Kenmore Company did and the
contract was signed for its building
at an annual rental of $7,000 - per
year.
This is considered to be in line
with, rentals for similar properties
in local Shopping Centers. Bids
were called for on February 3 and
the contract for ten years with op- |
tion of renewal up to twenty years
was awarded on April 7. :
The building must be ready for
occupancy by September 1.
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Promoted
Completion of an 18-month train-
| ing period resulted in the promotion
of William L. Beisel to Senior
Analyst in the Integrated Data Pro- |
cessing System at the U. S. Army
Signal Supply Agency, Philadelphia.
Mr. Beisel, son of Mrs. Anna Bei-
sel, Idetown, and the late L. E_Bei-
sel, graduate of James M. Coughlin
High School, Wilkes-Barre, and
Pennsylvania State College Extension
School. He became affiliated with
the Army Siganl Supply Agency in
1943, and, during his service, com-
pleted a course in procurement
management at the Army Logistics
Management School. -
Mr. Beisel’'s wife is the former
Frances Wilchek, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew S Wilchek, of
Wilkes-Barre. Mr. and Mrs. Beisel
reside at 4301 Spruce Street, Phila-
| delphia. ji
Beisel
Star-Gazing And Science Takes Up
Mrs. Newberry's Florida Time
Mrs Sev Newberry is star-gazing
again in Deland, Florida.
She writes: “I've read thirty
volumes on science this winter, and
is it ever fascinating!
“Some ddy this summer walk a-
| round at the Dallas Drive-In Theatre
before dark and note the immensity
of the dome of the sky. It will make «
you realize how puny arrogant man
really is.”
(Mrs. Newberry, the psalmist
said it centuries ago: When I con-
sider the heavens, the work of Thy
fingers, the moon and the stars
which Thou hast ordained, what is
man that Thou art mindful of him,
| or the son of man that Thou visitest
him?”
Mrs. Newberry continues with
material drawn from John Pfeiffer’s
“From Galaxies to Man.”
Five years ago a graduate at
Chicago University built an ap-
paratus of globular flasks and glass
tubing, It was designed to indicate
the possible course of events in one
possible early atmosphere, an air
consisting of water-vapor, ammonia,
hydrogen, methane, and marsh gas.
The water boiled, hyrogen and
methane bubbled through it. The
mix circulated for .a week past a
crackling spark which discharged
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at a 60,000 volt peak, a model of
lightning in primeval skies . In a
week’s time, water in the flask be-
came pink, then deep red, changing
color, a sign of substance in the
making.
The student analyzed the red
solution and found some of the sim-
ple starting compounds had reor-
ganized themselves into a variety of
larger molecules. A mong other
things, the flashing spark had formed
half a dozen amino acids, the units
that make up proteins. This is one
way worlds are formed, are made
and remade,
Scientists are positive that the
universe is building and rebuilding,
tearing apart and starting new life
all through infinite space. :
They consider that of 100 thou- |
sand single stars, at least one thou-
sand have a solar system of planets
just as our own. Living matter, even
| such as our own earthly man, could
inhabit them. :
Mrs_ Newberry says that through
her Florida telescope she sees Ju-
piter rising to the right of the sun
each .morning, with Saturn on the
right, its rings tilted at right angles,
and plainly visible. Jupiter's seven
moons are visible,
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