a Of Carnival Overture
hy asked to express their ideas
sifield, with purple mountains in the
RR and a wide blue sky with
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"have all Back Mountain Police Chiefs |
ion of a police nature so that all | NCCW Chorus at Mount Carmel. At
72 YEARS A NEWSPAPER -
Oldest Business Institution
Back of the Mountain
THE DALLAS
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TWO EASY TO REMEMBER
Telephone Numbers
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Local Boy Gets
Third Prize In
Art Contest
Donald Berlew Draws
Primitive Conception
Loss To Community
One of the features of the Chil-
dren’s Concert, sponsored by the
Junior League April 29 at 10:30
a. m. at Irem Temple, under direc-
tion of Ferdinand Liva, will be a
showing of the drawings done by
children of the fifth and sixth grades,
individual conceptions of what a
piece of music means in terms of art.
A local boy, Donald Berlew, in
Joseph E. Park's fifth grade at
Shavertown, topped his classmates
to become representative from his
school, one of forty-nine competing
schools. He went on to win third MRS. MARIE GEBHART
place among top ranking entries. The untimely death of Mrs. Marie
The theme for all the young | wahh Gebhart, Sutton Creek Road,
artists was the same: Roman Carni- i ’ ach ¢
val Overture by Berlioz. All children | ‘°F gacher. ©
English and speech at Wyoming
used crayons. The record of the
overture was played for all fifth | Seminary Day School, comes as a
and sixth grade classes, and stu- | shock to both this community and
ents, under direction of their art Wyoming Valley) where hundreds of
students have passed through her |
capable hands.
Mrs. Gebhart died Wednesday
night at Geisinger Memorial Hos-
pital, where she had been a patient
for only one day.
She was buried at Orcutt Ceme-
tery Saturday afternoon, Rev. Wil-
liam Reid, pastor of Orange Metho-
dist Church, officiating. Eastern Star
services were held Friday night.
seventeen years
in color. :
Donald sketched a herd of pranc-
ing horses tossing their manes and
following a violinist across a grassy
white clouds overhead.
Drawings will be on display at
Wyoming Art League gallery Satur-
day through’ next Friday, then at
Irem Temple. Winners will be intro-
duced to the audience along with Mrs. Gebhart was instrumentaliin
Musical Talent contest winners.
Drawi ill be sh Jo at th forming the local Rainbow Girls
rawings will be shown also at the ; Accamply in dhe
Fine Arts Fiesta in Public Square in jHzsembly, SCRVIng.ns puty
: of the order.
May at the Junior League booth. Sh : ti PW :
Donald is son of Mr. and Mrs. ¢. vas a. paleo yoming,
Robert E. Berlew. Judges were well- Janghter of Arthur and Daisy Ryman
known artists of Wyoming Valley. ebb.
i Joaves her ah Hah,
Police Appoint
Two Delegates
Building Authority, her parents; a
daughter, Mrs. Daisette Jones, Red
Kester And Updyke
Going To Conference
Bank, N. J.
Back Mountain Police Assoch ioe
Musical Program
At Lake-Lehman
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Lake-Lehman : |
ingen Thursday night. Sd Sd t
President Byron Kester presided. Give Varied Program |
The orgainzation moved to gond| ; ! : :
resident Kester and its secretary | Lake-Lehman High ‘School vocal
Herbert Updyke to the second |department under direction of Ber
annual Governors Traffic Safety | nard Gerrity presented an. evening
Council, on May 3 at Harrisburg.
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rd | of song last Friday in the school
This will be held at Zembo Mosque | auditorium, Taking part. were: Lake |
and traffic Sipe Pom all over the Junior Chorus; Lehman Junior |
United States w. S Jp Ationdence Chorus; and the combined Senior
fo present safety Pr En 1 4 | Chorus. Junior Choruses were at-'
ol Se 2 = : Ste tractively framed by a garden scene !
Walbridge Lein 23, chaplain 0 { made possible through cooperation
mr a be | of the Senior Chorus under direction |
Le ie EA Tnat- lof faculty members Joseph Ells- |
ation Sad tie June meeting at Worth, John Sidler, and Samuel
ution,
Pennsylvania State Police Barracks. ! Davenport ial
Meetings will then be discontinued | The Senior Chorus gave a widely
until September. varied program, interspersed with
The organization is now in the | readings by Dean Long, piano solos
process of sponsoring its fourth an- | by Larry Carpenter and Mary Ann |
nual dance to be held at Jackson Laskowsky, and a pando, duet by
Fire Hall, on May 12. Tickets may be | Gloria and Dean Long. Vocal solos
purchased from any Back Mountain | Were given by Karen * Poshoski,
police officer. { Sharon Coombs, and Allan and John
The Association also decided to | Landis.
Conductor Gerrity has had wide
meet each month on the 15th and | experience. He was director of St.
30th at Dallas Borough Building to | Francis Male Chorus of Nanticoke,
acquaint each other with informa- | Kingston Post 803 Men’s Glee Club,
departments may be acquainted with | present he is choir director of St.
John the Evangelist, Wilkes-Barre.
important current activities of each | ;
department. Meetings will be brief. He is a member of Concordia.
ennsylvania Game Commission
Buildng To Be Dedicated Today
Pennsylvania Game Commission, | general public are invited.
Northeast Division Headquarters, The Dallas office, under the super-
Building, on Memorial Highway, | vision of Carl C. Stainbrook, is ad-
will be dedicated today at 1 P.M. | ministrative headquarters for the
. The Honorable James A. Thomp- | thirteen north-eastern counties of |
son, president of the Commission, Pennsylvania, in charge of enforcing |
will preside |
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and The Honorable | the Game Law and various conser- |
John Morgan Davis, Lieutenant Gov- | vation activities on 270,000 acres of
mor of Pennsylvania, will give the | state game lands.
“dedication address. Representatives | This is .the first division office
from various sportsmen’s groups building constructed by the Game
will be included on the program and | Commission. :
all interested spordésmen and the’
Medical Society Will Award
Scholarship At Irem Dinner
Dr. Charles G. Perkins, Harris Hill in Luzerne County who are in the
Road, Trucksville, a member of the: upper fifth of their class have been
Luzarne ‘County Medical Society | distributed, according to Dr. Perkins.
scholarship committee, has an-| He noted that judging of applications
nouncal that the recipient of the | will be in the hands of representa-
$1,000 grant from the society will be | tives of the four educational institu-
honored at the society's Con l to which the gramt can be
|
Week, dinmer-dance Saturday night, | applied—Misericordia, Wilkes, King’s
April 29, xt Irem Temple “Country | and the Penn State Institute.
Club. ; The scholarship winner and
Dr. Perkins said the dinner-dance | parents will be guests of the Luzerne
will climax a wveek-long observance | County Medical ‘Society at the
of the medical society's 100th year | dinner-dance, he added.
which gets underway Mon day. Dr. Perkins also explained that the
Among the highlights will be open | scholarship applicants need not be
houee at the Luzerne County Medi- high school seniors planning medical
cal Society’s building and library on | careers and added that those who are
South Ffanklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, | planning other fields of study will
| community,” Murphy said.
| everything necessary to carry their
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER,
Tomorrow night at 8 p. m., Dallas stands at the extreme left of his 110
Junior High School Band will present | musicians. Officers of the band are:
its annual spring concert under | Howard Dymond, president; Beverly
direction of Alfred M. Camp, whq | Eck, vice president; Donald Smith,
Tomorrow's The Night For Dallas Junior High Band Concert
A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
student = teacher, Carol Robinson,
College Misericordia.
| secretary; Andrea Krimmell, treas- |
| urér. Ushers are members of the
| Student Council; stage hands mem-
bers of the Audio-Visual Aids Club;
photo by Kozemchak
Assessment Was The Same, But
Taxes Were Lower 46 Years Ago
Charles Shales of Bunker Hill,
Kingston Township, is exhibiting an
interesting 1915 tax receipt, signed
by the late G. W. Roushey at that
time Kingston Township Tax Collec-
tor.
Forty-six years ago Mr. Shales
property was assessed for $1,760. It
is assessed for the same amount to-
day, but the difference comes in the
amount of taxes he pays. Then he
paid $40.20."
Today his taxes are $139.29.
Here is the way his 1915 tax
statement read: County Road, one-
tenth mill; sinking fund eight-tenth
mill; County one and eight-tenth
mills; dog tax 40c; poor tax $1.75;
special poor tax 17c; Township road
$12.01; less rebate 5 percent. His
school tax was $20.59 plus a 5 per-
cent penalty of $1.03.
National Aler
Rpril 26 To 30
Civilian Participation
Rpril 28, 4 P.M.
The Federal Office of Civil and
Defense Mobilization has scheduipd
a nationwide Civil Defense Exercise
called “Operation Alert, 1961” be-
ginning Wednesday, April 26 and
continuing through Sunday, - April
30.
Luzerne County Civil Defense Or-
ganization will participate in all
phases of the coming alert. Plans
and preparations, under direction of
| Col. Frank Townend, County Direc-
tor, and Herman A. Wagner, Depu-
ty’ Director, are now in their final
stages.
County Civil Defense Units will be
mustered and placed in operation in
ten locations throughout the Coun-
ty. The main body, operating out
of the Courthouse, will begin solving
the “solutions”
pm. on Friday, April 28, with as-
sistance from Civil’ Defense Sector
levels. All local Civil Defense units
will assemble at Sector Contrel lo-
cations and, under the direction of
the Sector Directors, will lend aid to
the County Unit as the various
phases of the ‘‘problem” unfold.
: Division Head |
PATRICK J. MURPHY
Patrick J. Murphy, Upper De-
Munds, Road, will direct the Subur-
ban Business Division of the 1962
Torch Campaign of Wyoming Valley
United Fund.
Murphy’s appointment to the
chairman’s post was announced yes- |
terday by James J. O'Malley, cam-
paign chairman.
Sector locations at Wilkes-Barre,
Pittston, Kingston, Dallas, Nanti-
coke, Hazleton, Shickshinny, Moun-
tain Top and Bear Creek, will be
The Suburban Business Division
was created last year to improve the
campaign among small businesses on
the West Side and in the Back
Mountain area. Last year it raised | linked with the County Control
$17,851 or 100.9 per cent of its| Center by radio and telephone.
goal. RACES, the emergency Civil De-
In taking on the chairman's job, fense radio link, will’ be fully
manned by county amateur radio
personnel under the supervision of
i Daniel P. Detwiler, Chief of the
RACES Service. Additional com-
munications will be established with
local areas participating in the
RACES Net.
Public participation will begin at
4 pm. April 28, when sirens sound
the fluctuating signal
“take cover.”
the ‘curb and go to nearby build-
ings and remain indoors until the
“Attention” signal, indicating “All
Clear” is sounded. Regular and
Civil Defense Auxiliary Police will
be stationed at critical points to
direct traffic.
Murphy, a manager for Sears Roe-
buck, is following his company’s and
his own personal interest in the
Fund. “The company and our people
are deeply concerned with the
United Fund's continued program
and success as the most satisfactory
way to meet the obligation of our
The division is being enlarged and
expanded this year because of the
increasing importance of the solici-
tation on the West Side and partic-
ularly among the smaller businesses
and the shopping centers.
The division chairman expressed
confidence in the success of the
campaign as a whole and his di-| At the “take cover” signal all
vision in particular. “I feel sure | norrial radio and television broad
that all our merchants will do| castings will cease and “Conelrad”—
4 | 640 or 1240 on your radio dial —
fair share.” fill begin emergency broadcasting.
Murphy, a relative newcomer, | Local stations participating in
transferred here from Wilmington, | “Conelrad’’, on 1240, will be WBRE,
Delaware, two years ago. Wilkes-Barre, WBAX Wilkes-Barre,
He is a member of Wilkes-Barre | WPTS, Pittston,
Board of Directors of the Boy | Nanticoke.
Scouts. «av fd The ‘“‘Conelrad” test terminates at
Chairman O'Malley weldored ! 4:30 p.m., when radio and television
Murphy into the Torch Campaign | stations will resume regular broad-
organization. “With Pat Murphy | casting. =
heading the division, Suburban |
‘Bowling To Benefit
‘Burned Out Family
Armed Forces Day Crown Imperial Bowling Lanes has
| set aside May 8 as a special benefit
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Mary- | night for the Casterline Building
land, will have a mammoth display | Fund. All the proceeds between
of modern combat equipment on '9 p. m. and closing will go to the
Armed Forces Day, May 20. There | Fund which was set up by friends
will be [two tremendous firing | and neighbors when the Charles
demonstrations, and a spectacular | Casterline home at Harveys Lake
Business should set a high mark for
future campaigns,” O'Malley said.
just below the YMCA. have equal opportunities - in the
‘Applications to high school seqiors ! selection. a A
air show, | | was destroyed by fire in January.
} y 5
po ae REAR ci Sud Si NES A 3 a
shortly after 4:30
indicating |
Traffic will pull to,
WAZL, Hazleton,
| Kiwanis Club and serves on the | and on the 640 frequency, WNAK,
Frank Slatf Named Man of Year
By Atlantic Coast Distributors
partner with his brother, Sam, in
the Luzerne County New Company
in 1932.
Frank and Augusta Slaff are the
parents of two fine sons — Lyle
(Trucksville) who is associated with
Luzerne County News and Allan a
Commander in the U. S. Navy and
personal aide to Chief of Naval
Operations Admiral Arleigh Burk in
Washington, D.C.
Frank’s business affiliations in-
clude partnership in the Luzerne!
County News Company; managing
partner of the North Eastern Penn-
sylvania Edition of T V Guide, and
president of Slafbro Realty Com-
pany.
He is a member of Phi Sigma
Delta Fraternity, Cornell Law
School Association, a member of the
Masons and Shrine, on State Ad-
visory Board of the Salvation Army,
a member of Rotary Club, Elks,
American Legion, Wilkes-Barre Ad-
vertising Club,’ representative of
Wyoming Valley Jewish Committee,
Frank Slaff, Machell Avenue was member Wyoming Historical and
honored guest (man-of-the-year) of Geological Society, Wyoming Valley
the Atlantic Coast Independent Dis- Art League, vice president of Board
tributors Association at a dinner Of Trustees of Temple B'nai B'rith
held last Thursday night in the American Jewish Committee and is
grand ballroom of ‘the Waldorf As- 12 member of the Board of Directors
toria Hotel in New York City during of Back Mountein Memorial, Library
the twenty-sixth annual four-day Association. 1 |
convention of the association. Eight Frank is secretary-treasurer and
hundred attended. Director of Publicity of ACIDA and
At the same time Mr. Slaff ro. |2 director of Council of Periodical -
ceived a sterling silver plate in- Distributor Associations.
scribed: “T V Guide honors Frank |
Slaff for eight years of devoted and |
outstanding service as a vital mem-
FRANK SLAFF
Kunkle-Beaumont Road
Retaining Wall Caves
ber of its organization — April 13,
1961" y 3
5 | Property owners along the old
Mrs. Slaff was also an honored Kunkle-Beaumont Highway are dis-
guest, E turbed because Monroe Township
The attractively designed con-!; :
: i 3 Supervisors have done nothing to:
on program said of the Dallas remedy a dangerous situation near
| “The honored guest of ACIDA this ' the James Pelham property where
year is a veteran of 37 years in the | a large part of a stone retaining wall
magazine and newspaper business, | pos yee Passage over
and has been a loyal and devoted | fi
servant of our various associations.| The cave-in took place several
“Born at Yonkers, N. Y. on Janu-' Weeks ago on the orchard property
ary 5, 1897, the son of Jacob and formerly owned by Peter D. Clark
Sophia Slaff, he was educated at and the late William Williams of
Dwight Preparatory School in New | Dallas. Travellers feel that the rest
York City and attended Cornell Law | of the road may cave away if some-
School. thing is not done immediatey.
“Frank served as Naval Aviation ee .
Machinist 1st Class in World War I First Masonic Congress
and shortly thereafter married | ;
Augusta Scher of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., Approximately 300 leaders from
on January 18, 1920. all Masonic Bodies in Pennsylvania
“Our honored guest started in the will attend the first Masonic Con-
wholesale distributing business in’
: gress ever to be held in the state
i RE Ne on Saturday, April 29, at the Masonic
partnership was dissolved when Homes at Elizabethtown, Pennsyl-
Frank came to Wilkes-Barre as a vania,
They Will Greet Retreat Visitors |
\ | nounces that Mrs. Gordon Bell, from
VOL. 73, NO. 16, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 61
Ruction Kick-Off
Dinner Slated
Thursday, May 4
Mannear, McCutcheon,
Head Festivity For
15th Library Auction
SEE YOUR CHILD
ON T V SATURDAY
MORNING AT 9:30
How many children from
Dallas area can you spot in the
T.V. audience? Watch WBRE-
T.V. at 9:30 AM. Saturday,
April 22, when Ferdinand Liva
and part of the Wilkes-Barre
Philharmonic Orchestra will
present a lively introduction to
the Children’s Concert pro-
gram with a lively participating
audience.
Civil Defense
Training At
Kunkle April 26
East Dallas Unit
Will Cooperate At
Community Hall
Kunkle and East Dallas units of
Civil Defense will meet Wednesday
evening at Kunkle Community Hall
for a training session in mass care,
in event of a catastrophe which
might leave many thousands of city
dwellers homeless. }
Stefan Hellersperk, chairman, an-
Wyoming Valley Red Cross, will con-
duct' the three-hour period, which
will start at 7 p. m. and, with a
coffee break midway, close at 10.
Mrs. Fred Dodson has charge of
the Kunkle unit, Ted Wilson of the
East Dallas group. WSCS organiza-
tions of Kunkle and East Dallas
Methodist churches will cooperate.
Other church groups and firemen
will attend. ]
This is the first training session
for districts 4 and 5.
Instruction will cover feeding and
housing of great numbers of people;
include information on what to do
when children are separated from
parents in hasty evacuation of homes
or schools; give information on how |
to manage the inevitable illness and
sanitation problems. : :
» ‘Auction. chairman Les Jordon
This training session comes two ;
days before a National Alert, slated | promises to be brief. No speeches
for Friday, April 28, when civilian
cooperation will be required at 4
p.m. with all traffic halted, and
Conelrad stations operating from
4 to 4:30.
GEORGE McCUTCHEON
Two weeks from tonight at Irem.
Temple Country Club, the-Fifteenth
Annual Back Mountain Memorial
Library Auction will get off to a
flying start. AE
Co-chairmen Charles Mannear and
George McCutcheon announce the
time for 6:30. They have arranged
for a smorgasbord dinner, and a
light, spirited, and novel program.
“Sweet Lips” Baker will be on
hand for the auctioning of a few
choice items. “Hot Lips” Bobby
Baird with his trumpet amd the
Band Quintet Plus One, will furnish
sensational music. :
no responsibility - for anybody who
feels inspired by the occasion.
| will predominate.’ Newcomers to the
area are urged to attend, to get into
the spirit of an Auction which has
put Dallas on the map on a national
basis. 2 rn
Tickets are available through Dal-
las organizations or members of the
Auction committee. The Dallas Post
has a supply. :
Library Auction will be held at
the Barn in Dallas, July 7 and 8.
Band Students
At Montrose
Westmoreland
Sends 6 Players
Dinner Speaker
sending six students to the North-
east District Band in Montrose this
weekend, April 20, 21, and 22. Join-
ing 175 students from forty. high
schools under direction of Dr. James
Thurmond, of Lebanon Valley Col-
lege, will be Marilyn Eck, John
Wardell, Robert Wileman, Carl Ger-
man, William Welch, and William
C. Welch. 2
Lester Lewis, Westmoreland band
director, will accompany the stu-
dents. A public concert will be given
Saturday evening at 8 at the Mon-~
trose High School. R
ALFRED S. HOLT
Alfred S. Holt, Coordinator of Ex-
tension. Education and Recreation
will speak on ‘The Public’s Respon-
sibility for Continuing Education,”
at a dinner to be held by Dallas
Evening Extension Classes at Dallas
Junior High School dining room
Tuesday, May 2nd, at 6:30 p. m.
Since 1942 he has been a staff
member in the Department of Public
Instruction, serving as Director of
music several weeks ago and have
been hard at work practicing ever
the Public "Service Institute and |since. Marilyn plays the bass clari-
since 1957, Coordinator of Extension | net; Wardell the trumpet; Wileman,
Education and Recreation. He has | baritone; German, clarinet; Welch,
done graduate work at University | the bass; William C. “Welch the
of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania | trombone, ;
He is Past President of the Penn-
sylvania Association for Adult Edu-
cation, a member of numerous .
committees in the National Associa- Bt Misericordia Bward
tion for Public School Aduit Educa-
tion for Public School Adult Educa- Justice Benjamin R. Jones will be
of the U. S. A; member of the Phi | the principal , speaker at the Back
Delta Kappa; and at the present Mountain. Protective Association
time, President of the “75” Club of , banquet to be held Monday, May 1,
Pennsylvania. at 6:30 at, Irem Temple Country
Public is Invited. Reservations may , Club at which time the Back Moun-~
be made with the instructors or with ! tain Community Service Award will
Judge Ben Jones To Speak
Here are a few of the people who | Superintendent; Mrs. Charles R.
are playing an important role in the | Yhost, Auxiliary Mental Health
work at Retreat Hospital and who | chairman; Mrs, Harvey A. Sherman,
willbe on hand to welcome visitors | Activity Instructor: in Occupational
during open house at the down river | Therapy, chairman of Open House;
institution on Sunday, May 7. Mrs. Claude H. Butler, President of
Left to Right : Woman's Auxiliary to the Medical
Claude H, Butler, M, D., Hospital ' Society of Luzerne County.
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Retreat Hospital Invites You
To Its Open House On May 7th
Dr. Claude H. Butler, Superin-
tendent,” has issued invitations to
residents and organizations of the
Back Mountain area to attend
“Open House” at Retreat State Hos-
pital on Sunday, May 7, from 1 to
6: P.M. which is co-sponsored by the
Woman's Auxiliary of Luzerne
County Medical Society.
“Open. House” held in conjunc-
tion with National Mental Health
week, which will be observed April
30 to May 6, is featuring Mental
Health Careers.
It is hoped that many will avail
themselves of the opportunity to at-
tend “Open House” and see the
many services offered the mentally
ill patients—_
Various areas of the hospital will
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Mr. Camp. be presented to College Misericordia.
be on tour, occupational therapy
clinics will be open with a display
of finished articles made by patients.
Open areas will include the recre-
ation center, gymnasium, green-
house, powerhouse, laundry and a
woman's open dormitory. ?
‘the auditorium; two performances
to be given at 1:30 and 3:30 P.M.
at 4:30 P.M. followed by a question
and answer period conducted by
structor at the hospital.
to visitors during the afternoon.
| Rotary International Dixieland Jazz
are planned. The committee takes |
Community spirit and friendliness’
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Students were given folders of
A program, which will include
some 80 patients, will be given in ~~
‘A 30-minute film “A New Chap-'
ter will be shown in the auditorium
Mrs. Bernadine Aimetti, R..N. in-
Light refreshments will be served :
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