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Civil Defense
Session Draws
Crowd Of 87
Kunkle Meeting Is
Largest To Date
In Back Mountain
Mass care instruction for Civil
Defense drew eighty-seven workers
to Kunkle last Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Gordon Bell stated afterwards
that it was the largest audience she
had spoken to in her years of in-
struction.
Stefan Hellersperk,
ally visited, East Dallas Methodist
Church the Sunday before the meet-
ing, to ask for cooperation with
Kunkle Methodist in its staging of <~
the mass care instruction program.
Women’s units served refreshments
at the coffee break midway of the
three hour evening program. °
Mrs. Rell, representing Wyoming
Valley Red Cross, showed a film of
situations which develop 'in any
mass care program where large
numbers of refugees might be ex-
a pected, portraying procedures in
Re of accident or illness, and
covering situations calling for hous-
ing and feeding of many strangers.
Dr. Robert Bodycomb, Luzerne
County Sector 4 director,’ was
present Clarence Laidler repre-
Neented Dallas Township. Chief Rus-
sell Honeywell, Dallas Borough; Ted
Wilson, mass care chief for Sector 5,
and Fred Dodson, mass care chief
, for sector 4, represented East Dallas |
and Kunkle.
East Dallas sent a delegation of
forty.
Francis Ambrose and Stefan Hel-
lersperk were present in their of-
ficial capacity as key men of the
Civil Defense effort in the area.
Charlie Gosart
Near Tornado
Visits Amana Plant
Near Cedar Rapids
Flying through the edge of a tor-
nado last Sunday night. Charles
Gosart of Gosant’s Market landed
safely at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, six-
jteen miles from the storm eenter
‘where two persons were killed and
property damage amounted to $2
million.
Charlie made the trip from Phila-
delphia as a guest of the Amana
Refrigeration Manufacturing Com-
pany along with some 72 other dea- |
lers from all other parts of the
country who gathered there for a
tour of the big plant and the Amana
community.
‘Amana Township, 19 miles south- |
west of Cedar Rapids, is the home of
a German Religious Society whose
members live in various communit-
jes along the Iowa River. The Society
owns 26,000 acres.
Villages one mile apart are named
Amana, West Amana, East Amana,
South. Amana, North Amana, Mid-
dle Amana, and High Amana and
Homestead. Houses are of brick and
unfinished wood.
Principal occupation is farming
although the members have woolen
amills, noted for {their quality, cotton
rin factory, flour mills, saw mills
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© Community
chairman of |
Civil Defense for this area, person-
| time.
Safety Patrol Parade
JOHN EVENSON
| Three lads from the Back Moun-
tain will march in the Safety Patrol
| Parade in Washington Saturday
morning. Already practicing parade
formation and marching technique
weekly at Coughlin High School are
two boys from Lake-Lehman and one
from Dallas Schools.
Next Thursday,
from Trucksville, Edward Schrama
Jr. and Richard Post from Lehman,
will join patrol leaders from Wyom-
ing Valley, and the 36-passenger
bus will start from Washington, via
Gettysburg, where boys and girls
will visit the battlefield.
They will stay at the Burlington
Hote! in Washington, and do as
much sightseeing as possible.
In a parade of 35,000 children
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Two Local Men
Named To Board
| Tuberculosis Society"
Will Expand Program
Elected to the Board of Directors
of Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis and
Health Society at its annual meeting
{in April, two Back Mountain men,
| Dr. Robert A. Mellman and Charles
| Mannear were given important as-
| signments at the meeting of the
' Board of Directors on Monday at
Kirby Health Center.
| Kenneth Muchler, president of the
Society, announced that Dr. Mell-
man will head an important new
Health and Education/Committee for
| the entire county.
| Assisting him will be Rev. Robert |
| Yost, Dr. Robert Klein and Dr. Har-
old J. Harris.
Mr. Mannear was appointed chair-
{man of the important nominating
| committee.
| Mr. Muchler said the Society will
| embark on am expanding program
for detecting and finding evidences
of tuberculosis among young people
especiallly of school age and he ex-
pects Dr. Mellman to be of invaluable
service in organizing this work.
Mr. Muchler said the Wyoming
; Valley has the highest incidence of
tuberculosis of any area in the
State—largely due to health hazards
of the mines.
He was extremely optimistic about
| the successful treament of TB, espe-
cially if detected early among the
young and added that complete cure
| can be affected in many of these
| young cases in a short period of
|
|
John Evenson
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Bloodmobile Has
| Unusually Good
Dallas Response
Appearance Of 119
Donors Ranks High
In 11 Year Program
Blood donation at Dallas Borough
School on Friday was a banner con-
tribution, 119 people offering them-
selves for the sake of keeping them-
selves and other members of their
group assured of receiving trans-
fusion if it should become necessary
ation.
The preceding day, Linear’s roster
showed sixty-two names.
Local women who cooperated in
the Bloodmobile collection included
Mesdames Harvey Kitchen, Margarek
Dykman, Alfred Root, Mary Wright,
Walter Davis, George Seelandt, Al-
bert Rebenmack,
David Evans, Irven Schobert, Peter
Roushey, Fred Eck, Carleton Davies,
James Keiper, Charles Sieber, Stefan
. Hellersperk, and Edward Gilroy.
Mrs. Gilroy reports an innovation
in serving meals to the nursing staff.
A smorgasbord was set up with
spring flowers as a centerpiece, silver
and fine china, and daffodils relieved
the workaday atmosphere of the
auditorium where donors awaited
their turn.
At the time of the red alert
4 p. m. school children lined the
corridor outside, ready for the first
| sound of the all-clear sirens, and
Red Cross transportation was
| 2¥onndsd for ‘ten minutes.
In the eleven years of visitation
of the Bloodmobile to Dallas, the
present collection ranks as one of
! the top donations. The Blood Bank
| usually nets approximately 100
| pints.
LIBRARY AUCTION
DINNER TONIGHT
HAS INNOVATIONS
Tonight's Library Auction
Kick-off Dinner is an innova-
tion, new from start to finish,
la smorgasbord instead of a reg-
ulation dinmer, and with a fast-
stepping program planned by
Charles Mannear and George
McCutcheon.
Festivities start at 6:30 at
Trem Country Club.
General Auction chairman Dr.
L. E. Jordan announced commit-
tees in advance, to eliminate
ponderous pronouncements from
the head table.
A special feature will be the
auctioning off of a swinging doll
cradle made and decorated in
pastels by Robert M. Scott, who
has made doll cradles and beds
since the beginning of the Auc-
tion fifteen years ago.
Mrs. Lee Tracy, wife of the
Broadway star of ‘The Best
Man,” made the dainty dotted
swiss coverlet, trimmed with
val lace.” Mrs. Tracy is a con-
stant visitor at the Annual Auc-
i tion.
! Robert Bachman, chairman of
Auctioneers as well as president
of the Library Association, will
auction the cradle.
Bt Governor's Forum
Kingston Township Police Chief ; major
Herbert Updyke is attending the
Governor’s Traffic Safety Council in
Harrisburg.
because of accident, illness, or oper- |
William Wright, !
Clinton Myers, Ward Jaquish, Percy ,
Love, Ted Ruff, Margaret Shoemaker, |
“Dance Your Way Through the
U.S.A” is the theme of this year’s
May Day at the Lehman School. On
Tuesday, May 16, the program will
begin at 1:30 p.m. with the crown-
ing of the May Queen, Rosemary
Scavone, by the Maid of Honor,
Cindy Disque. Attendants are Gladys
McDermott, Patsy Hoover, JoAnn
| Lois Price, and Mary Sabo.
{ For her Majesty's pleasure, jun-
| ior and senior high school girls will
| present a travelogue in the form
| of various dances. Included in the
sections of the country will be Ala-
| ska, the Far West, Hawaii ,the South-
| west, the South, the Central states,
and the East.
Rosemary Scavone, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Scavone, Sweet
Valley, took the academic course
and plans to go to the Macklin
Practical Nursing School in Wil-
kes-Barre. She was a member of
the Student Council, Chorus, Tri-
Hi-Y, and jis now a class officer for
the third year. She is president of
the Future Nurses of America.
| Rosemary comes from a family of
nine and has a twin brother. She
|is a waitress at Pomeroy’s Depart-
ment Store in Wilkes-Barre.
She belongs to Qur Lady of Mount
Carmel Church in Lake Silkworth.
Mary Sabo, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Sabo of R. D. 4 Dallas,
took the Academic course and was
active in Senior Band, Senior Chorus,
| Future Teachers of America (F.T.A.),
Newspaper staff, Junior and Senior
Plays. She ‘is: a member of the Nat-
ional Honor Society, Record Club
and Tri-Hi Y.
Mary was chosen “Girl of the
Month” by the Lehman Woman's
Club in 1959. She is a member of
the Idetown Methodist Church and
choir.
After graduation, she plans to
attend Wilkes-Barre Business Col-
lege.
{ She now works as a waitress in
| Brace’s Coffee Shop in Shavertown.
Cindy Disque, daughter of Mr.
{ and Mrs. Robert Disque R. D. 2 Dal-
las, took the Vocational Course.
She has participated in Band,
| Chorus, ‘Junior and Senior Plays,
i Basketball, F.H.A. Yearbook Staff,
| Student Council
{ FFA. “Sweetheart”
| Ridge Chapter,
| Cindy is attending Night classes
| at the Empire Beauty School, and
| after graduation plans to attend day
| classes.
| She is a member of the Lehman
| Methodist (Church, is active in church
of
affairs, is Secretary-Treasurer of the
| Lafayette Choir Plans
Concert For May 7, 8
|
The 77-member Lafayette College
| choir will present a concert at Irem
| Temple, Wilkes-Barre, Sunday eve-
| ning, May 7, at 8, it was announced
{ by John R. Corke, Dallas, chairman |
f the local choir concert committee.
| Under the direction of Dr. John
| D. Raymond, chairman of the col-
| lege's Department of Music, and staff
| member of the Fred Waring Music
| Workshop, the choir has gained an
| outstanding reputation among eas-
| tern collegiate choral groups. It has
i been featured over ‘the nation’s
radio networks since 1947
and has made a number of tele-
vision appearances in Philadelphia
|and New York.
Applauds College Misericordia Award
and was chosen |
the Blue
2 community,
the role of College Misericordia in |
MARY SABO
GLADYS McDERMOTT
M.Y.F., and a member of the Sen-
| ior Choir.
| Gladys is the daughter of Mr. and
| Mrs. Clarence McDermott of 84 Oak
Drive, Oak Hill Dallas, Pennsylvania.
She took the Commercial course and
her future plans include office
work.
While in school she was a member
of the National Honor Society, Year-
ook Staff, Newspaper staff, chorus,
| Vice-president of the Nursing Club,
| a member of the Tri-Hi-Y, dancing
club and intermural basketball.
| Gladys attends the Gate of Heaven
Church in Dallas.
Justice Jones
Lauds College
Community| Award
Presented Monday
More than 250 persons,
‘them community leaders of all faiths,
| saw Sister Mary Celestine, pres-
| ident of College Misericordia, re-
i ceive the 1961 Community Service
| Award of Back Mountain Protective
| Association for the college Monday
night at a Community dinner at
Irem Temple Country Club.
| to that individual or organization in
recognition of outstanding achieve-
| ments for the betterment of
| Back Mountain area.
{ Since its establishment here in
{ 1924, the college has maintained a
| close relationship with the commun-
| ity generously granting scholarships
to scores of Back Mountain young
women who would mot otherwise
have received a college education.
Its concerts, lectures and social func-
tions have raised the. cultural level
of the entire commumity. The col-
lege courses in remedial reading
have been a boon to Back Mountain
| parents.
In his role as spokesman for the
Justice Jones praised
the educational field, mentioning
that the college is a great economic
and aesthetic asset to the region.
. He noted that the college was
| being honored on May Day—signifi-
cant for aw and order in the free
world in contrast to the rule of
fear prevailing in the communist
world. ‘
Prior to and during the dinner
music was provided by the College
String Ensemble composed of: Jean
Marie Neff, Mavgaret Kennedy, Ger-
aldine Orowicz and Barbara Turn-
bach, violins; Ann del Collo and
Lorraine Rowe, violas; Donna Fries
and Joan Voveris, cellos, and Ann
Marie Jamilkoski, bass. Music for the
lobby was from Mozart. During the
dinner, selections from Broadway
shows were by Patricia Ungemach,
was accompanied by Madelyn Gloge,
pianist.
among |
The award is presented annually |
the |
mezzo soprano, accompanied by Enid |
Housty. Ann Marie McAfee, flutist, |
ROSEMARY SCAVO
PATSY HOOVER
Patsy Hoover, daughter of Mr. and
Jia Floyd Hoover of R. D. 4 Dallas,
| took the academic course and after
| graduation plans to go into nursing
| at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
She was chosen “Miss Senior’ by
her class mates, and participated in
Chorus, Junior and Senior Plays,
| Staff, Tri-Hi Y, Record Club, Bas-
| ketball, F.T.A., and was a class of-
ficer.
Patsy attends Tirst Christian
| Church of Sweet Valley,.
Jo Ann Lois Price, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Morgan C. Price of
Eileen Crispell At
BARBARA A. KOVALICK
| May Day at Lake is scheduled for
| May 16, when Eileen Crispell, attend-
{ed by Barbara Kovalick, will be
| crowned Queen of the May. Other
girls of the senior class at the Lake
Building will act as Royal Court,
Fourth, fifth and sixth grades will
| participate in the program , “Music
| in the Air.” All high school students
| will be present, and students from
! Noxen building will be transported
| to the high school in time for the
‘one o'clock ceremonials.
Eileen Crispell, daughter of Mr.
| and Mrs. Earl Crispell of Noxen, is
i taking the Academic course. After
| graduation, she plans to enter train-
(ing at Wyoming Valley School of
| Nursing.
{ = Her activities include band, chorus,
| cheerleading, Pep Club, Junior and
Senior play, yearbook staff, intra-
| mural basketball, newspaper staff,
| FTA, honorary member of FHA)
| Rainbow Girls. She was selected Girl
{of the Month. Eileen attends St.
Luke’s Lutheran Church in Nexen.
Barbara A. Kovalick, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Visneski,
{ Noxen, is taking the Commercial
| course. Upon graduation she plans
VOL. 73, NO. 18, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1961
Lehman. To Honor Queen Of May
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CINDY DISQUE
JO ANN LOIS PRICE
R. D. 2 Hunlock Creek, took the
academic course and after grad-
uation, plans to attend Bloomsburg
State. Teachers College to study
Elementary Education.
She was a member of the Band,
Chorus, Junior and Senior Plays,
F.T.A. Club, Dance Club, President
of Vocal Aids Club, Newspaper re-
porter. She also participated in the
West - Side Conference Band. After
school ‘and on week-ends she has a
part” (ime. job 4b Shidly's liner wi
Sweet. Valley. TT
JO Ann’ sings in the choir at
Maple Grove Methodist Church.
Lake Building Will Crown Its Queen
Outdoor Festival
EILEEN CRISPELL
Town Meeting
Will Discuss
Sewage Plans
_ Citizens Invited
To Ask Questions
At School Tonight
A town meeting will be held to-
night at 8 in Dallas Borough Ele-
mentary School for a discussion of
the recent sewage feasibility survey
completed by Roy Weston Associates.
Experts in the field will be pres-
ent to answer questions and to aid
interested citizens in reaching a de-
cision on the sewage disposal prob-
lems.
Residents of all Back Mountain
communities concerned are invited
to attend and take part in the dis-
cussion.
Borough President Harold Brobst
will act as chairman; and Robert
1 Brown, Borough Secretary, will out-
line the problem and the steps taken
to date to determine the feasibility
of sewage disposal for this com-
munity. ,
Representatives of the engineer-
ing firm, Roy F. Weston Associates,
will be present, ito aid in answering
technical questions, and a represen-
tative of C. C. Collins, financial ad-
visers, will be on hand to discuss
financial aspects. Atty. Joseph Flan-
agan will handle the legal side.
In announcing the meeting, Sec-
retary Brown said: “Only an in-
formed public can understand the
sewage problem, the need for cor-
recting it and the costs of solving if.
This Town Meeting meeting will be
a golden opportunity for all of us
to get first hand information on
which to make decisions.”
Work To Start
On New Stores
Pethick Gets Contract
At Shopping Center
Pethick Construction = Company
was awarded the contract this week
for erection of the first 144 feet of
stores in the Dallas Shopping Center
and will start construction within a
day or. two. according to an an-
nountement made ‘yesterday dir
Louis Goeringeor owner of the Center.
The first group of shops will be at
the extreme back of the lot; parallel
to the Lehigh Valley Railroad, per-
mitting ample parking space in front.
Participations. and front will not be
completed until requirements of
tenants are determined.
Mr. Goeringer said there is great
interest in the :Center and leases
for most of the stores are pending.
Underground light and power lines
have been run under the parking
area for the big lighting standards
that will be erected shortly. Addie
Construction. Company - has about
completed filling the parking area
so that black top can be laid within
a matter of days.
The A&P Building is nearing com-
pletion with beautiful tile floors laid
this week. It now appears that the
market will be ready for opening
abount June 15.
Rural Republican Club
Rural Republican Club of the
Fourth District will hold an import-
ant meeting on Wednesday night,
May 10 at Pete Wolfe's, Sweet Val-
ley, 8 p. m.
Important papers will be distrib-
uted at that time. All committee
men and women are requested to
attend.
Rotary Exchange Students Planning
To Take Off For Foreign Lands.
[Five students from Westmoreland
High School are Rotary Exchange
students to foreign lands. Mary
Alice Knecht, the only junior among
the exchange students, will finish
her high school education in Sweden.
Marilyn Eck will go to Southern
Rhodesia. - George Jacobs will study
in the Philippines. Annabelle Am-
brose and Lynn Jordan, will take
postgraduate work in the Nether-
lands.
All four girls will sail July 21 from
where they will separate.
Jacobs, som of Mr. and Mrs.
George Jacobs, Shavertown, origin-
ally scheduled for Indonesia, expects
now to go to the Philippines, start-
ing immediately after graduation,
| and flying half way round the world.
His main interest is agriculture.
School starts over there around the
first of June, lasts for ten months.
Marilyn, daughter of Mr.and Mrs.
Montreal , bound for Amsterdam,
Rotary Exchange Students Planning
To Take Off For Foreign Lands.
"during August. The school semes-
ter, third of the current year, begins
in September... Marilyn will take
this semester work, then graduate to
a higher level of postgraduate work,
and take two more semesters. Two
long vacations are the rule in this
school, one in January, one in Au-
' gust.
Mary Alice Knecht, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Knecht, Dallas,
will be with Mr. and Mrs. Carl David-
son in Simrishamn, Sweden, and will
attend the local school in that com-
munity. She is studying Swedish.
Lynn Jordan and Anabelle Am-
brose are studying Dutch with Hans
Meiheizer, a last year’s Rotary ex-
change student, living in Kingston.
They expect to do quite a bit of
traveling while in Holland. Lynn is
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Jor-
dan, Trucksville; Annabelle, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Ambrose,
Elmcrest.
Lynn hopes to keep up with her
art interests while in Eindhoven.
Annabelle goes to den Helder.
|
Robert W. Laux, general chair-
! man, presented Rev. Francis Kane,
{to take a beautician and barbering | Fred Eck, Shavertown, after disem-
| course at Wilkes-Barre Beauty Cul- harking in Amsterdam, will go to
| ture School. London, where she will be guest of
Her activities include secretary of | a Rotary International family while
Rifle Club, and member for two awaiting accommodation by plane to
| years; yearbook staff. Junior play; | Southern Rhodesia. She will study
| intramural basketball, honorary in an English girl’s school at Bula-
| member of FHA. She attends Noxen | wayo, arriving in time to take a trip
' Methodist Church. to a famous African game preserve
From fifty applicants from dis-
trict 741, Rotary selected twenty-
two. Five were from Westmoreland.
High “School. Thirty-eight clubs
offered candidates. :
Rotary exchange students go to
Australia, New Zealand, India, Afri-
ca, and many other countries. In-
donesia is no longer on. the list.
Seated in front of the speakers
e D o pastor of Gate of Heaven Church,
eo-chairman; Father James P. Walsh,
St. Therese’s Church;
Judge Edward Lopotto, Luzerne
County Orphan’s Court; Robert W.
Laux, ‘general chairman; Mrs.
Thomas Mack, Thomas Mack, Mus.
F. B. Schooley, Dr. F. B. Schooley,
Mrs. Stanley Hozempa.,
Ana, dean of the college; Rev. Robert
DeWitt Yost, president of the Pro-
R. Jones, State Supreme Court; Mrs.
R. Jones, State Suprere Court; Mrs.
Benjamin R. Jones, Atty. James
Lenahan Brown; :
Frank Wadas, Mrs. Leonard Corgan,
Leonard Corgan, Mrs. Joseph Wallo,
i Seated at speakers table, left to
4 right, Father Edmund Byrne, assis-
tant college chaplain; Mrs. Robert,
Laux, Msgr. James Clark college
chaplain; Father Francis Kane, Gate
of Heaven Church; Mrs. Daniel J.
Flood, Sister Mary Celestine, presi-
dent of the college; Sister Mary
table are members of the College § ;
Advisory Council, among them Percy | who gave the invocation.
A. Brown; John Stapleton, Mr. and | Congressman Daniel J. Flood,
Mrs. George Ruckno, James Balz, | toastmaster was in fine fettle, in-
Mr. and Mrs. William Fenstermacher | troducing the speakers and making
and Rev. Francis Brennan, St. Ther- | everybody comfortable.
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